These immersive open-world games feature maps derived from and inspired by real locations, offering detailed and interactive experiences.

Assassin’s Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt, but its recreation is rooted in real geography. The Nile River, the ...

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

On maps, Greenland is almost the same size as Africa, but In the real world, Africa is almost 15 times larger. Antarctica is always shown on maps as an immense territory, but the truth is that It ...

A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan online discovers a real map of planet Earth, created using the unique style of Rockstar's Western map.

Games Sim This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty Features ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Pokémon Go and other games that use real-world maps are all the rage, but there's a catch: they typically depend on semi-closed map frameworks that weren't intended for gaming, forcing developers ...