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Team skills through video games
Four explorers spent an hour examining oceanside ruins, navigating complicated mazes and solving puzzles. But they weren’t in some faraway location. Instead, teams of four clustered at workstations in...
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New student on the path to discovery
About 10 years ago, Jacqueline Ali was playing an adventure game for PlayStation 2 called Sly Cooper And The Thievius Raccoonus when she unlocked a secret behind-the-scenes movie about the game. The...
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Game analytics reveals games’ hidden impact
A decade ago, the term “game analytics” would have meant little even to those well versed in the fields of technology and interactive games. Back then, the trail of digital breadcrumbs left by players...
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In a bad mood? Change the channel
If a war scene, horror flick, or some other negative image appears on the television, older adults will tend to avert their eyes. Derek Isaacowitz, associate professor in the College of Science’s...
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Empowerfest celebrates Northeastern’s past, present, and future
The Northeastern community on Friday and Saturday celebrated the university-wide launch of its $1 billion Empower campaign with Empowerfest, an exciting showcase featuring dozens of interactive...
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SquadHero goes for the gold…and the red, and the blue, and the green.…
SquadHero:Revolver uses the Guitar Hero game controller in an innovative way that has nothing to do with guitars or even music. Photo via grapplehookgames.com. One of the overarching lessons I’ve...
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22,000 people. 73 countries. 4,250 games. 1 Global Game Jam.
Empty coffee cups and crumpled fast food wrappers littered the desks of Northeastern University’s Digital Media Commons on Sunday afternoon as 115 people began to resurface from a 48-hour game...
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The ultimate interactive experience
Photo by Steve Cohn. Newly appointed Northeastern professor Stacy Marsella is a rockstar in computer science. He develops crazy algorithms that essentially read emotion in snippets of text or audio....
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Game on
If Northeastern’s Game Demo Day wanted to adopt an official slogan, “Do you want to play?” should be considered the heavy favorite. That phrase could be heard throughout Thursday evening’s event at the...
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The M.O. of MMOs
If not for a prescient phone call some 31 years ago, Celia Pearce may not have become one of the world’s leading experts on virtual worlds and multiplayer gaming. It was 1983 and Pearce—now a newly...
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A simulation game to help people prep for court
Preparing for court and appearing before a judge can be a daunting experience, particularly for people who are representing themselves because they can’t afford a lawyer or simply don’t know all the...
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It’s game on at Northeastern
There is only one response to hearing that Northeastern’s campus will be converted this week into a larger-than-life street arcade: “Oh heck yeah!” The university’s Public Art Initiative is teaming up...
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Global ties unite students in European culture, politics group
The news junkies and global citizens in a new student group at Northeastern University called European Conversations do not always see eye-to-eye, particularly when they’re debating hot-button issues...
View Article3Qs: How Pokémon Go is ‘evolving the game genre’
Susan Gold says playing Pokémon Go has “expanded her world” and triggered her journey to discover much more about her neighborhood and the city of Boston as she walks around capturing Pokémon. The...
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Northeastern University student creates software to help screenwriters,...
Jason Louro says he’s wanted to be a filmmaker since he was 10 years old. In the summer of 2018, he decided it was finally time to sit down and write his own screenplay. There was only one problem: He...
View ArticleCan’t-miss events in Northeastern’s global network in February 2020
Meditate on divine mindfulness Learn about overcoming negative emotions through meditation and mindfulness. The session is Monday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sacred Space, on the second floor of Ell...
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What will the world be like after the COVID-19 pandemic? These researchers...
In the midst of a pandemic that has exceeded a staggering toll of 200,000 deaths in the United States alone, and has coincided with wildfires, hurricanes, and widespread protests for racial justice,...
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What makes Wordle so G-R-E-A-T?
Robot. Point. Proxy. If these words mean anything to you, then you’ve caught the Wordle bug—and you’re not alone. Millions of people around the world log in to play the word-guessing game every day...
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Welcome to ‘(F)unfair,’ the ‘surreal, dysfunctional carnival’ and a new...
Entering the fairgrounds, everything seems normal–at least at first. The flashing lights and blaring sounds of midway games beckon you closer. The familiar smell of buttery, greasy fair food fills...
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The future of historical tourism is on your phone
In Malden, Massachusetts, history always sits just beneath the surface–sometimes all it takes is a cell phone to uncover it. That’s the premise of “Chronosquad,” a new augmented reality game that...
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Chris Martens wants to make it easier to create video games
Video games should not exist. Every game is a feat of creativity and ingenuity full of technical and artistic hurdles, where even making a door work correctly can prove challenging. It’s why they...
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Saudi Arabia is going all in on video games. What does that mean for the...
There is a new power player in video games: Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government recently announced plans to dive headlong into the games industry with a $37.8 billion investment it hopes will jumpstart...
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Despite current slump of tech giants, strong growth seen in computer science...
As the biggest tech companies showed slower growth in the third quarter of 2022 and the giants like Meta, Amazon and Twitter laid off thousands of employees, the air and the internet filled up with...
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most anticipated...
For anyone even remotely interested in video games, May 12, 2023, will be akin to a national holiday. After years of hype and anticipation, Nintendo will release “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the...
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Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization...
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