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19-year-old Caleb Pixley worked with RIT community members and Rochester-based ROC Game Dev over six months to bring his vision for "The MAW" to life.

Small choices can have big consequences. That’s the idea at the heart of Peaceland: Choose Your Memory, a new video game being developed by students and faculty at RIT.

José Zagal, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, joined an episode of the Dice in Mind podcast where he discusses his path to academia, publishing a book about Dungeons & Dragons, and game scholarship advice.

WHEC-TV features RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios, which partnered with Make-A-Wish to help 19-year-old Caleb Pixley fulfill his wish of creating his own video game, The Maw.

WROC-TV features RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios and its partnership with Make-A-Wish to help 19-year-old Caleb Pixley bring his vision for his own video game, The Maw, to life.

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.