simulation
'American Truck Simulator' Is Closing a Virtual Highway Because of a Landslide IRL
"Its reopening in our 'American Truck Simulator' will depend entirely on real world events."
This Game Simulates the Thrill of Working On a Computer
You can almost feel the fluorescent overhead lighting.
Watch a Supercomputer's Fever Dream of the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Flameout
Understanding the dynamics of asteroid airbursts will make us better prepared for them.
Behold, the Largest Simulated Universe Ever Made
25 billion galaxies populated with 2 trillion particles will help calibrate a satellite on the hunt for dark matter.
Retroactive Bans Won't Stop Diving in Soccer
Under a new rule, diving that results in a penalty or red card will be punished with two-match retroactive bans. But the benefits of flopping still outweigh the costs.
Remembering ‘Esc’, the Virtual Nightclub That Never Was
A nightclub so exclusive that no one has ever heard of it.
Longtime 'Star Citizen' Backers Want Its New Referral Contest to Die in a Black Hole
New referral program emphasizes high-profile streamers, invites players to wildly unfinished game.
What Will Happen to Gaming's Most Ambitious Experiment When Its Creators Die?
The 'Dwarf Fortress' developer duo ensures the future of their decades-long simulation development project by gifting the code to archivists in their will.
Experience the Zombie Apocalypse Via a Windows 3.0 Simulation
For this fictional FBI grunt, the end of the world is boring as heck.
A Virtual Rainstorm Fills the Houston Cistern
Multidirectional flashes of light flicker and dance across hundreds of columns inside the dark architectural void of the Houston Cistern at Buffalo Bayou Park.
This Canadian Conceptual Artist Is Subverting Ideas of Public Art
Vancouver-based Reece Terris has spent years upending what he sees as a capitalistic and media-driven culture.
Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Apparently Launch ‘Spitballs’ at Each Other
"A single shredded star can form hundreds of these planet-mass objects.”