University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in maths a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

Video games have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. When I was a kid, my mom gave away my Nintendo while I was at summer camp, which was a devastating betrayal at the time and only fueled my love ...

In a San Francisco convention hall that used to be packed with big booths from brands like Sony PlayStation and Epic Games, the 2025 Game Developers Conference had a decidedly different vibe: rows and ...

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive. First, a confession. I only got into playing video games a little over a year ago (I know, I know). A ...