This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

…Using the exact kind of reasoning a simulation would use to hide that it’s a simulation. Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been ...

After leaving his body, a man enters a radiant portal and is welcomed by deceased family members before being guided into a chamber of light. There, a council of twelve beings reveals that every human ...

Vijay Hashia The cardinal question before us is whether time, space, causation, our experiential world, and even our personal identities are real or merely conceptual frameworks – ideas created, ...

Tomodachi Life is a life simulation game by Nintendo that has already launched in Japan and is set to hit the U.S. and Europe this June. The game is similar to The Sims and Second Life, where you ...