YouTube announced Playables in 2023 as lightweight games that could be accessed on the platform. The new Gemini 3-powered YouTube Playables Builder lets anyone build a game without any coding ...

We’ll keep following these developments, but this just wasn’t their year. Here’s why. If you’re a longtime reader, you probably know that our newsroom selects 10 breakthroughs every year that we think ...

Playing games on your phone can be as addictive as social media. I know this firsthand, having downloaded several games on my phone to keep from doom-scrolling. While this is a smart plan in itself, ...

NPR staff members and contributors have explored the breadth of this gaming year, from multiplayer sensations like Arc Raiders and Elden Ring: Nightreign to narrative-driven experiences like Dispatch ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a fun new way to play golf that would level the playing field," said an inventor, from Amherst, N.Y., "so I invented the PEPPER BALL golf ...

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market. Welcome back to The ...

Duke football will play for the ACC championship — and, potentially, a College Football Playoff berth — after all. The Blue Devils, who have five losses on the season, were sent to the ACC ...

The Week 14 college football schedule is headlined by several high-profile rivalry games this weekend, including Ohio State-Michigan, Texas A&M-Texas and Vanderbilt-Tennessee. The three top-25 ...

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...

There are plenty of great games to play on Xbox Series X / S. Yes, the PS5 may have sold nearly double the amount of the Microsoft console, and undoubtedly has more must-play exclusives (even moreso ...

In many ways, the history of video games is also a history of science fiction. Yet games don’t always get the credit they deserve when it comes to advancing sci-fi genres. Still, many of today’s most ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an exciting and challenging game that would require a degree of manual dexterity and skill," said an inventor, from Indianapolis, Ind., ...