Today, Slate is releasing the latest edition of a new weekly game called SoundBites. It’s a little bit crossword, a little bit phonics, and entirely dependent on the fact that English pronunciation ...

Meet Jest, a marketplace for messaging games that recently emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. Jest believes that the future of gaming won’t come from an app store, but rather from ...

The video game developer launched with $6 million in funding and a promise to build a competitor to popular life simulation games like The Sims. Now the company is shutting down.

When it comes to education, there is no substitute for learning by doing. To teach children Spanish, have them speak it. To teach them art, give them paper and paints. Plenty of tech titans got their ...

Hobbyist game developers and tinkerers who love the original Game Boy have a cool new book to pore over. Game Boy Coding Adventure is the latest release from No Starch Press, a publisher specializing ...

Add the Orbit Collector game — a fun mini-game where the player collects stars while avoiding planets. The player orbits around a central point, timing their movement to collect as many stars as ...

With age comes a natural decline in cognitive function, even among otherwise healthy adults without dementia. A new study finds that a cognitive training program may boost production of a brain ...

A lightning-fast crash course on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. From its 1995 origins as Mocha in Netscape to powering front-end apps, Node.js servers, mobile apps, and ...

A new lab at Arizona State University, the Endless Games and Learning Lab, is giving students hands-on experience and valuable job skills in the fields of gaming and artificial intelligence. The lab, ...

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