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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.

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.

Computer science major Emma Schmitt took a required co-op seminar class to help prepare for the internship search and what do to on the job, helping her land co-ops at Honeywell/LenelS2 and Microsoft.

Jeff Chen’s analysis of the game In Stars and Time has earned him the Game Developers Conference Game Narrative Review program’s prestigious Gold Prize, which enables him to give a talk and present a poster at the annual event in March.

By offering real-world experience managing teams and clients, MAGIC Spell Studios’ new Student Producer Program presents students with unique opportunities to fully engage in digital media projects under development.

According to Steven Spielberg, all good ideas start out as bad ideas. That’s why a duo from RIT has launched the game studio Bad Ideas Productions.

Government Technology speaks to David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, about digital twins—virtual versions of real-world spaces.