Four seconds into one version of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," an animated horse with two arms and four legs hatches from an egg.

Digital entertainment has changed fast. What used to be mostly passive now feels far more hands-on. Online interactive games sit right at the center of that shift. They ask players to make choices, ...

He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...