It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to guess what Cleaning Up! is all about. And it was its title alone that got me excited for this casual game about well, cleaning up messes. Each level presents you ...

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was repeatedly mocked by the fans of the Boston Celtics at TD Garden in Game 7 of their first-round series on Saturday. But when the smoke cleared, Embiid had the ...

New Xbox boss Asha Sharma has acknowledged the ongoing financial struggles of Microsoft’s gaming business, amid a shakeup and repositioning of the brand around its core fans. But Sharma takes over ...

On paper, it’s so simple. In an NBA landscape that requires more than one star to contend for a title, the Knicks worked to put two in place while grabbing Jalen Brunson and then adding Karl-Anthony ...

Imagine you're in the middle of a task, the internet cuts out, and the "Lonely T-Rex" appears out of the blue. Most people see pixelated frustration; we see a thrilling challenge in the infamous ...

The designers at Lightspark write: Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate ...

The Bucks signed Cam Thomas last week in hopes that he could bolster their offense and ease Giannis Antetokounmpo's scoring load if and when the two-time MVP is able to get healthy and get back on the ...

When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...

My family does not take holiday festivities lightly. On Christmas Day, we eat several rounds of food, spanning the course of many hours. So we need to take a lot of breaks to digest. Sometimes we use ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.