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Designing for video game complexity

Video game designers have a challenge trying to wrangle inherently complex games, so let's look at some of the ways they make things comprehensible to players.

To slobber and to protect

ROONEY, a burly, middle-aged cop of few words, was starting another day of police work when an alarming call came in: a bomb threat.

Fear follows them

IN THE frenzied American exit from Afghanistan, Obaidullah Durani, a fighter pilot trained by US forces, was scrambling to get his family out too.

Jamaica’s fragile welcome mat

WITH power still out more than a week after a powerful hurricane tore through western Jamaica, Kellanie Kerr stood in the dark at the stifling souvenir shop in Negril where she works, waving a fan at her lone customer.

Inside the new season: The fashion campaigns shaping what we’ll wear

From K-pop stars in Seoul to Parisian library halls, these newly released campaigns offer a first glimpse at the accessories and silhouettes set to shape the season ahead.

Flooded and forgotten

THE morning after the flood, volunteers arrived.

Far-right probes the line

ONE far-right lawmaker demanded that German authorities reveal the exact routes used to send military supplies to Ukraine.

Spreading the AI risk

DURING the fall, Microsoft announced a series of deals worth tens of billions of dollars to lease computing power for its artificial intelligence ambitions.

From tea wars to chicken bargains

THE economic relationship between the United States and China is as strained as it has been in years. Yet, that has not stop­ped a wave of Chinese food and beverage chains from pushing into the United States for the first time.

High on hues: Why bold colour dressing is fashion’s ultimate mood booster

Fashion may say many things, but more importantly, colours, most of them at least, are proven mood boosters. They can lift your spirits and spread a little joy to those around you too.