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Image via Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com and Ga Fullner / Shutterstock.com Director Steven Spielberg’s 1997 video game Director’s Chair, launched to coach directors through the filmmaking process, has been rebooted with a choose-your-own-adventure spin. In the original game, players would work with problems that arise on set and create a film through footage shot by Spielberg himself, per Vice. For the new version, worked upon by Carnegie-Mellon University lecturer Paolo Pedercini, players will pick options from the pre-recorded footage, with Quentin Tarantino as one of the main characters. The game also stitched together pre-recorded clips of Jennifer Aniston and Spielberg...

10am: A Killer Party: A Murder Mystery Musical Starring theater favorites Jessica Keenan-Wynn as Detective Case, Michael James Scott as Varthur McArthur, Krystina Alabado as Lily Wright, Carolee Carmello as Justine Case, Drew Gehling as Cameron Mitchelljohn, Jackie Burns as Joan McArthur, Laura Osnes as Vivika Orsonwelles, Jarrod Spector as George Murderer, Alex Newell as Shea Crescendo, Miguel Cervantes as Clarke Staples and Jeremy Jordan as…Jeremy Jordan,this hilarious and irreverent send-up of the classic Murder Mystery features an all-star creative team that includes Jason Howland (Music), Nathan Tysen (Lyrics), Kait Kerrigan (Book), Marc Bruni (Direction), Bobby Pearce (Costume Design), Billy Jay Stein...

When I was a youngster, Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair was a huge deal. It was one of the first, and only, games I owned for our huge, bulky Gateway computer, and, most important of all, it featured Steven Spielberg. As a budding young cinephile, Steven Spielberg was like a god to me (which probably explains why I now spend all my free time putting together a podcast about his movies), and the prospect of playing a game where you got to make your own movie with Spielberg’s guidance was too cool to ignore. And to sweeten the deal, Quentin Tarantino was...

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and coding toys make playtime ultra educational. STEM is now a major part of most school curriculums, and plenty of parents are eager to give their little ones a head start when it comes to cultivating a love of learning within these fields. After all, the earlier you can grasp these increasingly important skills, the better. While all kinds of toys and plain old imaginative play can help your kid learn and problem solve, coding toys for kids are a great option.Toy makers are seizing on the STEM frenzy creating cool coding toys that foster problem-solving...

Many U.S. parents are working overtime this summer to try to get their kids off the couch and out from behind their video games for fear that spending too much time navigating virtual worlds will come at the expense of learning how to navigate the real one. But those fears might just end up being misguided. As Infermedica Co-Founder and CEO Piotr Orzechowski told Karen Webster, had it not been for gaming, he never would have founded his firm — or set out on a quest to innovate healthcare using artificial intelligence (AI) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to create...