Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Thankfully, the Super Robot Wars games had a precedent for this.

Thexder is a maze shmup (think Pac-Man mixed with Gradius) where you control a robot that transforms into a plane. Square adapted the arcade game and brought it to the NES in the 80’s, but it was only ...

We haven’t seen any shape-shifting game consoles yet on Transformers… But we bet they’d be the coolest robots around. Until the franchise enacts this awesome idea, fans are doing it for them! In a ...

Fatemah grew up playing all kinds of games, initially finding a home in the very first installments of Counter-Strike and Warcraft. From there onward, it was pure grind — all day, all night.

And indeed, if the idea is good, it needn't be an external robot. There's no reason why a companion AI couldn't be built right into the game console operating system, ready to hang out and chat during ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

Machine-learning approach could help robots assemble cellphones and other small parts in a manufacturing line. In the basement of MIT's Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It ...