Games, and play more generally, are powerful learning tools that encourage new forms of engagement, enable students to ...

Even so, video games aren’t inherently negative. In the 50 years since Atari unleashed Pong on the world, there’s been plenty of research on the effects of video games on our brains, and it ...

The $160 billion industry has a massive carbon footprint, yet climate organizations are increasingly recognizing video games as an avenue for education and impact.

Video games, even when played alone, have to be understood communally. Each game is a little different for every player—­not just understood differently, as with other art forms, but literally ...

Physical video games media has been in rapid decline, and it seems possible that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo could eventually go all digital.

Mr. Parkin is a writer and the host of “My Perfect Console,” an interview-based podcast about video games. When I was a child in the 1990s, I began my campaign for my first video game console ...