When it comes to a dream career in game design, every journey starts at the same place—picking the right university. According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, Rochester ...
Contention Games founder Gary Dworetsky raised nearly $4 million with his 2022 Kickstarter for Slay the Spire: The Board Game, which turned 2019’s genre-defining rougelike deckbuilder into a ...
From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum’s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming’s cultural ...
Peter Perla, the late sage of modern wargaming, explained how wargames facilitate proofing through what he called the “cycle of research.” The cycle is the sum of wargaming, exercises, and analysis, ...
We know what we’re in for when we sit down for a Hunger Games movie. Adapted from Suzanne Collins’ trilogy for young adults, they’re full of commentary-via-metaphor on class, politics, war, propaganda ...
Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. An appetite for destruction has been around since ...
Gaming is popular with teenagers, with the 2025 Bitesize Teen Summit survey revealing that 94% of teens who were surveyed played video games. Gaming companies also feature heavily on the list of ...
Amid the doom and gloom in the games industry right now—the mass layoffs, the studio closures, the declarations that TikTok is winning the attention war—there are still little studios plugging away at ...