Explore how backward induction helps solve game theory problems by working from the end backward to determine optimal actions ...

Discover how the Centipede Game illustrates conflict between self-interest and mutual benefit, as well as why real-world ...

Framber Valdez is a 32-year-old left-handed pitcher who signed as an international free agent out of the Dominican Republic.

Amanda The Adventurer 2 has been a SMASH hit this year, being one of YouTube's favorite games! The VHS-based horror game took ...

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.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

In late September, a Japanese Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player discovered that you could glitch the game into giving King K. Rool two crowns, essentially allowing him to infinitely spam this attack ...

The Super Smash Bros. community has been excited ever since we learned that the rumored Nintendo Direct is unsurprisingly coming on September 13th. When they heard it was the longest Direct in history ...

Ripples in spacetime sent hurtling through the universe when two black holes smash into each other -- a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein -- have confirmed a theory proposed by fellow physicist ...

Scott Baird is a contributor with over a decade's experience writing about video games, along with board games and tabletop RPGs. Scott has previously worked for Dexerto, Cracked, Dorkly, and Gamepur.

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...