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.

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled ...

Ever since the very first Pokémon games, players have had to endure a somewhat lengthy tutorial before starting their journey. The formula has been consistent: child wakes up in bedroom or arrives in ...

Last summer, one of the most sought-after recruits in college football wasn’t a quarterback or a defensive lineman. It was a 21-year-old YouTuber in Kentucky. James Bordeaux had put out a series of ...

Google has quietly launched a new app called Instant Games on the Play Store. As spotted by Mobilegamer.biz, Instant Games offers a new location for gamers to browse a catalogue of HTML5 games, filter ...

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Here at Ars, we’ve written frequently about the video game industry’s ongoing problem with blatant game cloning and the shifting legal and ethical landscape around the issue. But we’ve rarely seen a ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...