Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the ...

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the ...

Explore how backward induction helps solve game theory problems by working from the end backward to determine optimal actions ...

But what does game theory look like in practice? What kinds of ‘games’ fall under this concept, and how do they enhance our understanding of strategic behavior in real-life situations? In this article ...

Game theory is an area of applied mathematics that deals with how participants use strategies and logical reasoning to make decisions in strategic situations like games. Game theory and Artificial ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...

Ever wonder how nodes are incentivized in a blockchain to ensure trust, consensus and cooperation in a system with no central authority? The answer lies in game theory, the mathematical study of ...