Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie fixates on a fiendish roguelike with an outrageous mash of ideas; Matt ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If you find yourself with a shiny new Meta Quest headset during the ...

Can you crack Killer Sudoku's mathematical twist? The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. In Killer Sudoku, the digits in each inner ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Not much has changed with the NYT Games app’s popular ...

The world of Wordle is expanding: The New York Times Games is launching a “Create Your Wordle Puzzle” feature that will allow users to go beyond just playing the popular word game, and instead develop ...

The gaming-IP arrangement is working both ways — and in a huge way — a new study has shown. By Tony Maglio One of the great legs-up available to TV and film creators is the use of existing IP, and ...

LinkedIn is bringing out a miniature version of Sudoku, built with a three-time world Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder and the Japanese publisher that popularized the puzzle. Millions of people already ...