The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

JRPG developer Yoshiro Kimura, whose 1997 game Moon: Remix RPG Adventure was cited by Undertale creator Toby Fox as one of his major inspirations, is about to release a new game - inspired by ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Undertale: True Genocide Undertale: True Genocide is an Undertale fan-made game that takes place at the end of your genocide route in the original Undertale ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

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TL;DR: Toby Fox's new game, Deltarune Chapters 1-4, launched to major success, topping Steam's best-seller list with over 133,000 concurrent players. This turn-based RPG, a parallel story to Undertale ...

TOPSHOT - President Trump's plan to create a "national bitcoin stockpile" has fueled speculation that other countries will follow suit. Game theory helps explain the logic behind Bitcoin's recent ...

Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Amanda Taub Amanda Taub ...