Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

Some video games recreate a single city, while others recreate entire regions, historical landmarks, or even the whole planet ...

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

Wargaming is giving us all a look at the game modes and the real-world location inspired maps in World of Tanks: HEAT in the latest entry in its Foundations series. The maps are all based on real ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a Feature Writer from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade and finds dissecting Marvel trailers for hours standard practice and still finds time to review, ...

Game worlds can feel mighty big, but even the most sprawling open worlds are surprisingly small when compared to the real world. This makes sense, of course—no one wants to spend multiple actual days ...

There's been a few games that have explored using real world map data as a background for the action. From Microsoft Flight Simulator to Infection Free Zone, playing around the places you know has ...