Agency is perhaps the most important distinction between video games and any other form of entertainment. You have no control over how the characters fare in any book, TV or film, but in games, the ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has approved a new major in computer game design, the first of its kind in the UC system. The new major, leading to a B.S. degree, provides students with a ...

Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design–an interdisciplinary program that provides a rigorous background in the technical, artistic, and narrative elements of creating interactive ...

Firsthand Technology has received a $3.4 million Small Business Initiative Research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research the effectiveness of interactive computer games to ...