Find your next must-play game by flying through a virtual galaxy

Click, zoom in, and individual dots pop up from the nearest clusters: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015), Red Dead Redemption (2010), Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses (2008). This is GameSpace, an experimental online tool designed to help you find the next video game to play. It won't just work for gamers, though – it could soon make life a bit better for anyone looking for the next great book or movie. Like the rest of us, gamers can't keep up with all the new titles constantly being published. "There are thousands and thousands of games," says James Ryan at the University of California, Santa Cruz.