Playing with Einstein
Students and researchers of the MIT Game Lab have released an open-source toolkit to simulate the visual effects of special relativity in games and graphics applications. Intended for game developers,...
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The MIT Game Lab is for the first time providing a one-week course to expose professionals to their research and development methods for game development. This course will be held August 5-9 in...
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Big game hunter
The crowd stands and cheers. The exhausted, triumphant winning team is handed its trophy, which the captain lifts while the rest of the players raise their arms in victory. This sounds like the scene...
View ArticleTaking games seriously at the Lincoln Laboratory
Researchers in Lincoln Laboratory's Informatics and Decision Support Group are developing serious games, an oxymoronic term coined for a wide variety of games whose primary goal is not entertainment....
View ArticleBuilding culture in digital media
The video game “Grand Theft Auto V,” which recently grossed $1 billion in its first three days on sale, is set in the fictional city of Los Santos. But if you’ve played the game, you probably don’t...
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