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RIT once again made The Princeton Review Best Colleges list and was ranked among the top 50 schools for “Colleges that Create Futures” in its Best 392 Colleges 2027 edition.

Albany's Times Union speaks with Jenn Hinton, director of games industry relations, about New York’s efforts to grow its video game industry through expanded tax incentives and partnerships between game studios and universities. (This content may require a subscription to view.)

WHAM-TV features RIT's video game development camp where middle school-aged campers received their own laptop computers.

He most recently co-authored Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (MIT Press 2024) and co-edited Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press 2024) and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge 2024).

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

Elan Lee, creator of the Exploding Kittens gaming empire, has been named RIT’s Outstanding Alumnus for 2026.

RIT students dominated RPI GameFest 2026, bringing home two major wins and eight finalist placements for their innovative game projects.

According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, RIT is one of the top five game design universities in the world.

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created the alternative controller interactive experience Don’t Run With Scissors.

At the GDC (Game Developers Conference) Festival of Gaming in San Franciso, PC Gamer interviewed RIT students who created a giant toothbrushing interactive experience called Floss Boss.

Independent game developer Rami Ismail hired former Gap Year fellow Sam Magnolia and their cofounders at Aesthetician Labs — Noah Magnolia and Aidan Markham — to lead the development and production team for Australia Did It.

As part of a collaborative capstone project, students from new media design and new media interactive development are creating interactive experiences with alternative controllers. Three of the projects will be exhibited at the Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming next week.