News

The Rochester Business Journal features David Long, director of RIT's MAGIC Center and MAGIC Spell Studios.

WROC-TV reports on the third annual Rochester Game Festival.

The Democrat and Chronicle features artist W. Michelle Harris, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media.

Lost & Found: Order in the Court – the Party Game, which aims to promote and enhance the public understanding of religion and law, was nominated for a Spotlight Award in the Tabletop category of IndieCade, the premier event for independent games and is known as the Sundance Film Festival for video games.

Rochester Business Journal features MAGIC Spell Studios as one of the coolest spaces in Rochester.

The Original Mobile Games are digital recreations of handheld dexterity-based games and puzzles from the last 149 years. The project was developed collaboratively by RIT, The Strong museum and Second Avenue Learning.

Dartmouth's alumni magazine highlights Owen Gottlieb, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media.

Emily Haldeman and Tim Stringer were hired by Optic Sky shortly after showing the production studio their VR film that merges storytelling and interactivity.

RIT experts will help Rochester push the edge of light- and sound-based technologies at the Light and Sound Interactive conference. The event aims to spur economic growth, as leading technologists and innovators come to Rochester for collaboration on the future of light-and-sound based technologies, applications and emerging industries.

Animation Career Review has again named RIT one of the top game design schools in the country. RIT ranked fifth on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S. and second in New York state.

Imagine RIT visitors will help keep the skies above RIT clear during the festival on April 27, in a new video game on display at the MAGIC Spell Studios building. Festivalgoers can play “Weather Defense: A Two Stories High Video Wall Game” on six large 4K displays, mounted two stories up the atrium wall of the new 52,000-square-foot MAGIC building.

Rochester Business Journal features the RIT Digital Games Hub.