Somebody sure is on Lea Michele's side this season. Not only did the stage and screen star make her triumphant return to ...

The Wild also got a 5-on-5 goal that went in off Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen and forced overtime with Marcus Foligno 's 5 ...

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it looks like that tradition will now extend to video ...

The opening is where many chess games are won or lost before the real battle even begins. These five openings give beginners a strong foundation, helping them control the board and avoid early ...

The modern era of cheating in chess began on a Thursday in July 1993, when a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks walked into the World Open tournament in Philadelphia and registered as John von ...

When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women ...

The college basketball season has officially come to a close, which means Ohio State fans can now shift their focus to the upcoming football season. Although the college football regular season ...

What looked like a normal chess game suddenly swung on a single decision. One move changed the balance, opened the position, and left the rest of the game feeling almost inevitable. That is what makes ...

Director Genki Kawamura’s big-screen take on the indie video game hit follows a man who can’t find his way out of a Tokyo subway tunnel. By Jordan Mintzer The press notes for the high-concept, ...

Over the weekend, Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and the rest of Nintendo’s iconic crew traipsed around the solar system and smashed their way to the top of the box office in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It’s ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Barry Iverson / Getty. The game’s success lies in pushing a gentle-but-distinct nostalgia button for a generation missing the experience of visiting the local ...