GamerGate has engulfed the Internet. It pits two factions against each other: The “gamers’’—people (mostly men) who see video games as part of their identity—claim they’re fighting for ethics in games ...

The place where the video game was invented more than 50 years ago now wants to teach teachers, entrepreneurs and students how to design games for learning — and it is hoping that the end result will ...

Physicists and game developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Game Lab have launched a video game that teaches players about relativity by slowing down the speed of light. A Slower ...

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, ...

Caption: An MIT Game Lab prototype being demonstrated to a group of MIT students. Photo provided by MIT Game Lab. Caption: An MIT Game Lab prototype being demonstrated to a group of MIT students.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a first-person game that helps showcase science with entertainment. Called A Slower Speed of Light, this visually-stimulating game centers around ...

OpenRelativity, the open-source toolkit used to develop first-person object collector A Slower Speed of Light, is now available for all to download, MIT Game Lab announced. The toolkit was developed ...

MIT hackers have, for some time now, considered playing “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the mother of all hacks. Just last week, they FINALLY accomplished this long sought after hack. MIT ...

If you've ever wondered what the robot apocalypse would look like, look no further than what unfolded on the lawn outside of MIT's Building 10 this week. There, on the grassy Killian Court, a ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uu7jA8EHi_0] Understanding relativity is hard but playing games is easy. What’s a physicist to do ...