Sorry for the late notice, folks! This Friday, we’ll be looking at League of Legends, possibly the most popular online PC game right now with 12 million players logging in every day. It can be a little intimidating for someone …
Still suffering digital media overload after the barrage of election coverage? Us too! This week, we’ll be kicking it old school, playing a card game that MIT Game Lab researcher Todd Harper found at the Indiecade festival: Tiltfactor’s “Buffalo.” This …
This Friday at 4pm, we’re going to take a look at the most recent entry in the Assassin’s Creed series. Watch with us as we try to skip past as much of the parkour, sci-fi and killing and focus on …
This Friday at 4pm, we’ll compare a couple of missions from the earliest X-COM games from Microprose to the most recent XCOM title from Firaxis. From saturday-morning heroes to Lovecraftian abysses to space marines, it’s neat to see what has …
Registration is open for Futures of Entertainment, an annual event exploring the current state and future of media properties, brands, and audiences and the way these groups interact and intersect with one another. This year’s event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, …
New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival, and seven new games MIT has established new game research facilities in the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories (Building 26), where MIT’s first computer game, Spacewar!, was developed fifty years ago. …
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