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fromwww.cbc.ca
3 hours ago

These Ontario researchers are using virtual reality gaming to help older adults with dementia stay fit | CBC News

"For the ones who are confined in certain spaces or cannot do it independently, this is a great opportunity to transport them to a different reality from the ones that they are currently living in while keeping them active," Munoz told CBC Hamilton from his lab on Laurier's Brantford campus.
Medicine
Board games
fromKotaku
1 day ago

Puzzle Spy International Deserves To Be Played By Way More People

Puzzle Spy International offers a collection of 11 engaging puzzles with a light story, ideal for solo or cooperative play.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 day ago

Power-washing, pool-cleaning and mowing: Why millions are playing games about mundane jobs

"We want to make the Graham Norton of video games," says Kirsty Rigden, the chief executive of Brighton-based FuturLab, which makes PowerWash Simulator. Aspiring to emulate a talkshow host who has a reputation for being affable rather than for setting pulses racing is perhaps an unusual ambition for a gaming studio.
Games
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Stop the brain rot! 12 ways to stay sharp in a mind-frazzling world

Brain rot, characterized by cognitive decline from easy information, is rising due to social media and shortform videos, leading to exhaustion.
Video games
fromEngadget
1 day ago

Jason Blundell announces his new-new studio, Magic Fractal

Jason Blundell has launched a new studio, Magic Fractal Studios, following the closure of Dark Outlaw Games.
Paris food
fromFast Company
3 days ago

How Disney Imagineers are using AI and robotics to reshape the company's theme parks

Disney Adventure World in Paris showcases advanced technology with its new attractions, including a robotic Olaf and a spectacular nighttime show.
Poker
fromBusiness Matters
4 days ago

Why People Love Taking Chances: From Holiday Deals to Game Shows

Taking risks triggers excitement and dopamine release, motivating behavior through the anticipation of rewards.
Film
fromVulture
4 days ago

What the Heck Is Going On in the Back Room in Backrooms?

A24's horror film Backrooms features a furniture-store employee discovering endless, eerie back rooms filled with unsettling sights.
#generative-ai
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
4 days ago

Like it or not, AI is part of art school curriculums

Generative AI poses a significant threat to creative professionals, impacting job prospects and sparking protests among students.
Education
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The anti-boredom tech tool kit for meetings and classes

Engaging participants in meetings or teaching can be challenging, but tools like Padlet can enhance collaboration and participation.
fromWIRED
6 days ago

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant

Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old research psychologist and quadriplegic, participated in a brain implant study to contribute to science that aids those with paralysis. The six chips in his brain decode movement intention, allowing him to operate a computer and feel sensations in his fingers again.
Music production
Wearables
fromFuturism
6 days ago

Neuralink Patient Using Brain Chip to Carry Out Important Life Task: Playing World of Warcraft

A paralyzed man uses a Neuralink implant to play World of Warcraft hands-free, showcasing rapid adaptation to the technology.
Games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

How To Finish Big Open World Games Like Crimson Desert

Focusing on one open-world game at a time enhances motivation and progress, making it easier to complete them.
#linkedin
Board games
fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

He's LinkedIn's First Puzzlemaster. Here's How His Games Benefit Their Business - and Your Brain.

LinkedIn has appointed Thomas Snyder as its first principal puzzlemaster to enhance user engagement through daily puzzles.
Board games
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Meet the three-time world Sudoku champ behind LinkedIn's daily puzzles

LinkedIn hired a Sudoku champion to create engaging puzzles, aiming to enhance user interaction and foster connections on the platform.
Board games
fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

He's LinkedIn's First Puzzlemaster. Here's How His Games Benefit Their Business - and Your Brain.

LinkedIn has appointed Thomas Snyder as its first principal puzzlemaster to enhance user engagement through daily puzzles.
Board games
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Meet the three-time world Sudoku champ behind LinkedIn's daily puzzles

LinkedIn hired a Sudoku champion to create engaging puzzles, aiming to enhance user interaction and foster connections on the platform.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 week ago

Locked in for fun: Coney Escape Room celebrates grand opening on Surf Avenue * Brooklyn Paper

Coney Escape Room, Brooklyn's first escape room, opened with themed adventures and aims to enhance Coney Island's appeal as a year-round destination.
#rec-room
Games
fromFast Company
4 days ago

Rec Room is shutting down, despite the popular game reaching over 150 million users. Here's why

Rec Room is shutting down in June due to unsustainable profitability despite having over 150 million players since its launch in 2016.
Games
fromFast Company
4 days ago

Rec Room is shutting down, despite the popular game reaching over 150 million users. Here's why

Rec Room is shutting down in June due to unsustainable profitability despite having over 150 million players since its launch in 2016.
fromThe Atlantic
3 days ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Video Games

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.
Games
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

While you're here, could you do one more impossible thing?

Finn described his experience traveling for a sales call, stating, 'They wanted me to visit a promising new prospect that was 'in the same region' as the client I came to visit.' This led to unexpected travel challenges.
London startup
#imagination
Psychology
fromNews Center
4 days ago

Imagination is More Than Sensory Replay - News Center

Higher-level brain systems play a central role in imagination, suggesting it emerges from holistic processing rather than just sensory reactivation.
fromKotaku
4 days ago

13 Cool Games We Just Saw At PAX East That Should Be On Your Radar - Kotaku

Grave Seasons subverts the typical farming sim aesthetic by introducing a supernatural serial killer, offering mystery and scares in a genre often seen as cozy.
Games
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Why Creative People Struggle to Commit to One Path

Multipotentiality reflects cognitive flexibility and creativity, challenging the notion that pursuing multiple interests indicates a lack of focus.
Brooklyn
fromTime Out New York
2 weeks ago

A new escape room is opening on Coney Island's Surf Avenue this week

Coney Island Escape Room opens March 21 with three themed puzzle challenges and a game show studio, offering immersive mystery experiences for groups of two to eight players.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Highly intelligent people often don't realize it but psychology says the way they experience boredom is fundamentally different from most people - Silicon Canals

Boredom manifests differently in highly intelligent individuals compared to those needing external stimulation, requiring distinct resolutions.
Travel
fromThe Mercury News
3 weeks ago

Immerse yourself in Vegas: High-tech attractions take a trip to the next level

Las Vegas offers immersive experiences across entertainment, dining, and technology, with attractions like Area 15 and Interstellar Arc representing cutting-edge virtual reality destinations that transform traditional tourism.
Artificial intelligence
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Take AI's Job And Respond To Real Prompts In New Game

A browser game called 'your ai slop bores me' lets players role-play as AI to answer questions and earn tokens, reversing the typical AI-human dynamic by having humans provide hastily-rendered advice to other players.
Games
fromEngadget
5 days ago

BOXROOM lets you build a cozy game room for your Steam library

Customize a virtual space to showcase your game library with personalized furniture and game displays.
Games
fromVG247
5 days ago

Love and Deepspace has kicked off a new event, squarely around Caleb's new Memory Pair.

A new event, Ghosts' Final March, introduces a 5-Star Memory Pair for Caleb and various rewards, available until April 11.
Video games
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

The calm and charm of cosy games in a chaotic world

Cosy games have become a major cultural movement, with titles like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley selling tens of millions of copies by offering players safe, peaceful worlds without failure states or time pressure.
fromBrooklyn, NY Patch
3 weeks ago

New Escape Room Opens This Month In Brooklyn

We want people of all ages to come together, solve puzzles, laugh, and make memories-even when the boardwalk isn't buzzing with summer crowds. The venue features three original escape rooms, each with a Coney Island theme: "Over My Dead Body," "Presumed Guilty," and "Captain Kidd: The Hangman's Treasure."
Brooklyn
Games
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Wordle inventor gets ahead of the game | Letters

Josh Wardle continues to create games, demonstrating the importance of ongoing creativity beyond initial success.
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google's DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and by repeatedly playing itself during training. But then some odd things happened as people started identifying Go positions that would lose against relative newcomers to the game but easily defeat a similar Go-playing AI.
Board games
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How insight gamified AI

When we rolled out a custom-built company GPT to our 14,000 teammates several years ago, we saw three clear groups emerge. First, there was the 'jump-in-with-both-feet' crowd. These are the early adopters who treat anything new like a shiny toy. Next were the skeptics who wondered how much of an impact AI would have on their daily work lives. And finally, there was a big group that genuinely wanted to learn but didn't know where to start.
Artificial intelligence
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Marathon Players Are Quickly Solving The Cryo Archive ARG Puzzle

On March 6, Bungie quietly activated previously offline computer terminals scattered around the first map in Marathon. These terminals looked and sounded like the ones found in Bungie's original Marathon trilogy. And players quickly figured out that terminals led to other terminals, and if you visited them in the right order, you'd hear a message from an unknown voice that the community believes is Durandal, the psycho AI and main villain (?) from those older Marathon games.
Video games
Video games
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Panic's gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

Panic's gaming strategy prioritizes innovation and unique experiences over obvious sequels, as demonstrated by creating Big Walk, a 12-player co-op adventure, instead of a direct Untitled Goose Game sequel.
#word-puzzle
Games
from48 hills
2 weeks ago

Is AI gaming ready for primetime? - 48 hills

Google demonstrated live AI-generated NPC dialogue at GDC 2026, with over 60 AI-related talks and events showcasing the gaming industry's focus on artificial intelligence integration.
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
4 weeks ago

Top Ten (Unexpected) Board Game Side Effects

Board gaming hobbies produce unexpected psychological effects including reality distortion, media immersion, and travel fantasies beyond anticipated expenses and space concerns.
Video games
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago

Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art

Hidden Folks pioneered a 'searching' game genre that emphasizes curiosity and exploration within detailed worlds, distinguishing itself from traditional hidden object games through interactive storytelling and playful discovery.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 month ago

This charming pixel art game solves one of AI coding's most annoying UX problems

Pixel Agents is a Visual Studio Code extension that transforms Claude Code AI agent monitoring into an intuitive 8-bit video game interface, solving the usability problem of tracking multiple concurrent AI coding sessions.
Gadgets
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Rubik's WOWCube adds complexity, possibility by reinventing the puzzle cube

The WOWCube modernizes the Rubik's Cube with heavy electronics, enhancing accessibility and features but inflating cost and reducing traditional puzzle complexity.
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Did you solve it? Are you cut out for these puzzling slices?

Three geometrical puzzles: a tiling impossibility by color-count invariant; a dissection-to-square challenge; and a pizza-division minimal pieces solution of ten.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Can you solve it? Are you cut out for these puzzling slices?

Three geometric challenges: a triomino tiling impossibility, an alternative four-piece dissection forming a square, and minimizing pieces for equal pizza shares.
#logic-puzzle
Games
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Parseword: Is Wordle creator's new game too much of a chin-scratcher' to go viral?

Josh Wardle created Parseword, a digital adaptation of cryptic crosswords designed to make the traditionally complex puzzle format accessible to a broader audience beyond dedicated enthusiasts.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11

Eleven exhibits striking properties: two-digit prime palindrome, football-team size, palindromic multiples, a neat divisibility test, and digit-arrangement puzzles.
Business
fromSecuritymagazine
2 months ago

Escape Rooms, Mud Runs, and Game Nights: Cradles of Leadership?

Leadership displayed in informal activities does not always predict sustained effectiveness in formal managerial roles.
Design
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

8 Puzzles That Are "Perfect" for Game Night (and Double as Decor)

Expressive puzzles from Black-owned brand Puzzles of Color double as frameable wall art celebrating artists of color and diverse experiences.
Games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

Wordle Creator's New Puzzle Game, Parseword, Out Now

Josh Wardle launches Parseword, a free daily cryptic crossword puzzle game that teaches players to solve clues through wordplay rather than filling a grid.
#wordplay
Games
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Wordle's creator is back with a new game, and it's a real chin scratcher

Josh Wardle released Parseword, a daily puzzle game based on cryptic crossword logic that requires wordplay skills like finding synonyms, reversing words, and combining letters.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 months ago

Brain Health Challenge: Try a Brain Teaser

Decades of research show that people who have more years of education, more cognitively demanding jobs or more mentally stimulating hobbies all tend to have a reduced risk of cognitive impairment as they get older. Experts think this is partly thanks to cognitive reserve: Basically, the more brain power you've built up over the years, the more you can stand to lose before you experience impairment.
Public health
New York City
fromNew York Family
2 months ago

Two New Attractions Light Up Times Square: The Escape Game and Great Big Game Show - New York Family

Two new interactive attractions in the Brill Building—The Escape Game and Great Big Game Show—offer multi-age, hands-on entertainment in Times Square.
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle Review

MicroMacro: The Home Game Jigsaw Puzzle is a 500-piece puzzle that utilizes the same art style as all other MicroMacro titles. The puzzle depicts a socc....errrrr, a football game, as well as the neighborhood surrounding the stadium. It is "just" a puzzle; however, there is more to it after you complete it. There are forty-two hidden objects to find (think Where's Waldo?), as well as two cases to solve, like other MicroMacro games.
Board games
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here

The day Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times, in 2022, for more than a million dollars, should have been a moment of triumph. The game, which gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word, had unexpectedly become a global sensation, and Wardle had already begun to receive e-mails from puzzle designers seeking his input on their own ideas.
Games
Science
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Serious Games Tackle Serious Problems

Serious games use entire games to solve real-world problems like climate change, wealth inequality, and political polarization, achieving research, education, and behavior-change outcomes.
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Constraints do not limit creativity-they unlock it

Human-centered constraints drive creativity, reveal unmet needs, and produce more useful, market-ready innovations.
Gadgets
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

TR-49 review inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets

TR-49 is a mystery game where a machine consumes esoteric books, sending players to specific pages via codes to uncover the pivotal text Endpeace.
Science
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Can Gaming Do for Our Intelligence?

Effective intelligence — attention, working memory, decision-making, and learning speed — is trainable through experience and interventions such as gaming, leveraging neuroplasticity.
Video games
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Finding the Playful Self at Play

Play often includes playfulness, but intense, professional, or high-stakes activities can become worklike, though moments of playfulness still emerge.
fromeLearning
2 months ago

Learning Time Awareness During Arcade Skill-Based Gameplay - eLearning

Learning time awareness plays a quiet role in how people think, act, and learn. It shapes how long someone stays focused, when they respond, and how they pace tasks. Many learners use this skill daily without naming it. Skill based arcade gameplay offers a clear way to observe this behavior. Players rely on timing, not chance. Each action depends on when it happens. Over repeated play, players develop a better sense of time perception in games and beyond.
Psychology
Board games
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

I'm Using the "Paper Plate" Method the Next Time I Do a Puzzle (The Reason Why Is Pure Genius!)

Use paper plates to sort and hold upright jigsaw pieces, keeping edge pieces separate and making all pieces visible and easy to pass around.
Board games
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Embracing board games as a winning strategy for digital detox

Long Island's tabletop gaming expo celebrates handcrafted, tactile board, card, miniature, and role-playing games, highlighting physical interaction and indie creators.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Here Are The Best Detective Games To Check Out

Industry layoffs and studio closures coincide with major game updates, gameplay impressions, character trailers, and recommendations including Steam Detective Fest deals and free PC games.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

This Part Of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Really Surprised Sandfall Interactive

Clair Obscur's optional side content proved far more popular than expected, altering player pacing and revealing developer underestimation of endgame expectations.
#pears
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

The Best Roblox Survival Games To Play Endlessly

The best overall Roblox games encompass every type of genre and gameplay experience imaginable, including even survival games. That's right, if you are looking for the best Roblox survival games, you will find they are some of the most profoundly engaging and memorable experiences on the entire platform.
Video games
Video games
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Outside Parties is the creepiest Playdate game yet, and I'm kind of obsessed

Outside Parties is a Playdate horror scavenger-hunt that builds intense atmosphere using a massive gigapixel panoramic image and eerie audio-driven narrative.
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