On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed into the center. But their opponents were not across the table, or even ...

Large language models (LLMs) are bad at chess. And yet, as a three-time National Chess Champion and a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, I love to play against them. Not because they push me to ...

When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women ...

A new VR game based on the heist action of Payday, Payday: Aces High, is coming later this year to Steam and the Meta Store. The officially-licensed game brings four-player co-op to VR where you can ...

This article is part of AI Week. Almost nine out of ten workers in the games industry (88.4%), predominantly developers, believe that generative AI use should be declared on digital storefronts like ...

Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid increase in both the capabilities and popularity of using AI models to throw together quick programming ...

As board games go, it's hard to get more influential than chess. It's not the oldest game out there, Go is more than a millennium older, but Chess still predates Monopoly by roughly five centuries.

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Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...

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The makers of a smart Rubik's Cube-like puzzle have upped the ante with their game technology with a special-edition Harry Potter-themed chess board, complete with character pieces. But can AI help ...