In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a cell is ‘alive’ or ‘dead’. After ...

Indie game developer Kerzoven and publisher Metaroot have confirmed the official release date for Of Life and Land. If you haven't seen the game before, this is a settlement-building strategy game ...