North Penn Now

How to Make Your First AI Game Play Smoothly on Mobile

First game feels laggy on phones. Fix it with touch-friendly controls, optimized layout, better performance, and feedback for smooth mobile play ...
The New York Times

How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. By Pranav Baskar Taking a page from the child ...
The Washington Post

The video game that started it all

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...
CNN

Brain game may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...
Wall Street Journal

Key Moments in the History of Videogames (and No, ‘Pong’ Wasn’t First)

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. To many people, videogames are a ...
Game Rant

Games That Use Atmosphere Instead of Jump Scares

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland. At GameRant, she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games to share her love of all things nerdy with the world. Her love for ...