Random chance mechanics in video games can be frustrating. Missing a 90% shot in XCOM, when you really need it to hit, can cause some players to throw their controller or rage quit. But not all ...

It must have been turning 40 yesterday that caused me to find myself reading the Observer newspaper Health supplement left over from this weekend. The ‘special’ this week was entitled ‘25 things you ...

There’s one genre that this excellent video from Game Maker’s Toolkit does not address, and that’s sports, but in MLB The Show and NBA 2K particularly, I can speak to the total getting-screwed mindset ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If Lost in Random takes place in a world where everything is random, ...

Riot Games recently released Teamfight Tactics, its entry in the auto battler genre, and the game appears to be extremely popular, pulling huge numbers of streaming views and lots of YouTube attention ...

Does your RNG have sufficient randomness? Is it secure against tampering? Is it decentralized? These qualities are critical to building a viable metaverse. Quantum mechanics tells us that what looks ...

Consider the problem of generating random numbers for multiplayer games, such as dice rolls for two player backgammon, or damage results for eight player Warcraft III. How do you do it securely, in ...

One of the most irritating problems when playing multiplayer games is getting the same map several times in a row, but developer Riot Games believes it's finally cracked the Valorant map selection ...

Now to reveal how to get around the imperfect generators: my [non-scientific] testing by simply using the F2 key to re-deal multiple times (does not affect statistics) results in far fewer games that ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Random Games, a game studio focused on its community-owned franchise Unioverse, unveiled Reyu Genesis, its first collection of Hero non-fungible tokens. Based on the story of the Unioverse, Reyu is a ...