Forward-looking: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild impressed players with its flexible physics system in 2017. Nintendo's 2023 follow-up, Tears of the Kingdom, added a fusion system that drew ...

The footage shows players intentionally pushing the game’s physics system past its limits. Simple movements and collisions begin to cause unstable and unpredictable results. Objects react in ways the ...

That was the reaction of Takahiro Takayama, lead physics engineer on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, when he saw the first prototypes for two of the game’s abilities: Ultrahand and Fuse.

Ragdoll physics is a big part of many video games. While in some titles they're used to add a sense of realism to falling and flying sequences, in others, ragdoll physics actually make up the game's ...

Quantum dynamics—the study of how particles behave and interact in a quantum system—has long fascinated physicists due to its puzzling and sometimes bizarre behaviors. Unlike classical systems, where ...