Long disparaged by the Baby Boomer generation as either a childish distraction or a leading cause for the downfall of civilization, video games have weathered that criticism and grown into the ...

Tuesday night in the Deep End is when we sneak a peek at some of the lesser known - and less understood - jobs in the arts. Tonight we're going On The Job with a computer game designer. You might ...

The Center for Games and Playable Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Brenda Romero (formerly Brenda Brathwaite) as a game designer in residence, the first such position ...

Will Wright, senior secret product designer for Maxis, looks through a doll house display used in designing the computer game “Sims Online” at his company office in Walnut Creek, Calif. There is ...

Millions of Chinese are obsessed with online games, but only 3,000 or so are involved in game design and production. One of the few, Leng Bing, explains to Jane Cai how he turned his degree in ...

A teenage computing prodigy from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, has won a 250,000 yuan ($42,000) scholarship to Stanford University. As a gold medalist at the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) in ...