As a veteran of many a virtual apocalypse, I imagine you've saved populations from fungal epidemics before. But forget The Last of Us: in Facebook game Fraxinus, the consequences will be more real ...

The Iconfactory released the fast-paced $2 iPhone game Pickin’ Time on Monday. The game features both single-player and multi-player modes, both of which test your pattern-matching skills and your ...

I was first introduced to the design sensibilities of Pete McPherson after playing Tiny Towns, a pattern-matching game about building structures for woodland creatures. Because I enjoyed Tiny Towns so ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers the ...