MIO: Memories in Orbit is influenced by the platforming challenges of Hollow Knight.

Romeo Is a Dead Man features a Shakespeare-hating shape-shifter and plenty of zombies.

Museum heists have a higher calling in Relooted, a video game where players take the repatriation of African artifacts into their own hands.

Lucrative players of games like FarmVille and Words With Friends get personal account managers and entries to exclusive sweepstakes.

With infinite pathways and incredible tension, video games like Cairn and Peak are recreating the activity’s emotional highs and lows.

The suspect in the British Columbia shooting had long been posting about mental health problems, substance abuse and a fascination with weapons and online violence.

Plus, how extremist groups are using video games to recruit children online.

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show.

Video games are big business, and the company behind Mario, Zelda and Pokémon may be the most important player, says the author of a new corporate history.

Crossplay, the first of its kind from The Times, pits puzzlers against each other on a shared board.

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Zachary Small looks at two new games with similar premises and compares them for value. Which should you play, which one has a more impressive design, and which one will will be the most fun: Ghost of Yotei or Assassin’s Creed Shadows?

He transformed his Japanese photo booth business into a gaming industry giant that created Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog and more.

“Blood Money: Lethal Eden” taps into a rising anxiety in China by simulating the experiences of people trafficked for the scam industry.

Check out a beat-’em-up roguelite, a superhero corporate comedy and a museum simulator.

A slow start is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed a savior.

Autobiographical stories and mystery games resonated in a chaotic year.

Q-UP, the spiritual successor of the video game Universal Paperclips, is a savage critique and a loving appreciation of esports culture.

Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.

Mr. Zampella co-founded two game studios and also worked on the Medal of Honor, Titanfall and Battlefield franchises.