Chess or video games—which actually makes you smarter? The answer may surprise you.

Games don’t make you smarter, but they can support your brain, regardless of your age. Different games sharpen different ...
Inverse

A Strange Twist On Chess Makes For An Excellent Roguelike Strategy Game In Shotgun King

Shotgun King is a surprisingly clever strategy game that’s also a silly twist on chess. Punkcake Délicieux In Shotgun King, you play as a mad tyrant fighting to put down a rebellion in his dominion — ...
IGN

Marvel Rivals Dev Says They're Not Trolling Dataminers - 'We'd Rather Spend Our Time Developing the Game'

Marvel Rivals dataminers think the developers are trolling them with lists of potential future characters hidden in the game's code. But NetEase and Marvel say they have better things to do...like ...
GameSpot

Baldur's Gate, Divinity Dev CEO Responds To Backlash Over Generative AI Comments

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity developer Larian has confirmed that it uses generative AI in its development processes, but not necessarily in the way ...
PC Gamer

Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames'

Games PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025 Events & Conferences Steam Awards 2025 give Game of the Year to Hollow Knight: Silksong Games 2025 has been the pinnacle of weird and interesting ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Ancient board game tactics help AI unlock optimal cooling strategies

When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and ...
GameSpot

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Just Lost Its Indie Game Of The Year Awards Over AI Concerns

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the span of a week, Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was named Game of the Year by both The Game Awards and The Indie Game Awards ...
The Economist

An AI revolution in drugmaking is under way

His job is to reimagine the future of drugmaking using that similarly trendy branch of computer science, artificial ...
News Day

Julius Courage successfully defends Goldswift chess title

The second edition of the Goldswift U1800 FIDE Rated Open delivered another exciting weekend of competitive chess, with over 180 players converging at The Heritage School in Borrowdale, Harare, ...
The Indiana GazetteOpinion

PARMY OLSON: Google’s chess master is working on AI's killer app

You may have only recently heard about Demis Hassabis. He’s been named one of Time magazine’s “AI architects,” won a Nobel ...
NPR

Sources & Methods

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...
IBTimes UK

Chess Grandmaster Dina Belenkaya Caught Using Foul Language As 11-Year-Old 'Crushes' Her

Chess grandmaster Dina Belenkaya has come under scrutiny after a video surfaced showing her using foul language following a loss to an 11-year-old opponent, sparking debate about conduct and ...