Future teachers see educational potential in computer games, study shows. Teacher training should therefore address their potential in the classroom. Future teachers see educational potential in ...

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It is this freewheeling agency, adds Dr McCall, that makes games—especially those that lean towards simulation rather than ...

If you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that’s 5% of your life. Will this time investment do anything good for your brain? This is a question that my colleagues and I at UC Santa ...

Game advocates are calling for a sweeping transformation of conventional education to replace traditional curricula with game-based instruction. But what do researchers have to say about this idea and ...

You’ve just booted up a game on a state-of-the-art quantum computer. You’re running 19 superconducting quantum bits on a processor held at near absolute zero. Anticipating its sheer power, you press ...

Computers have beaten humans at chess and “Jeopardy!,” and now they can master old Atari games such as “Space Invaders” or “Breakout” without knowing anything about their rules or strategies. Playing ...

Be honest, you want to be smarter. There’s nothing wrong with that. Studies consistently demonstrate that intelligence is among the most desirable qualities a person has. Whether it's trying to ...

Screenshot from an online emulator of 1985 edition of The Oregon Trail (Internet Archive) Back when I was playing these games on my family’s Apple IIc, they were often side-eyed by a generation that ...

If you are a certain age, your first programming language was almost certainly BASIC. You probably at least saw the famous book by Ahl, titled BASIC Computer Games or 101 BASIC Computer Games. The ...

We live in a world with millions of computers—on desks, on laps, under TVs, and in pockets—connected to a global computer network. As a result, with the right software, playing head-to-head online ...

Landmark historical relics don't usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are ...