Gaming science reveals how video games boost cognitive skills like memory and attention, with NIH studies showing gamers perform like people years younger. Pixabay, Vika_Glitter Video games have long ...

CU Boulder scientists find that playing video games comes with small but significant cognitive benefits Ever since video games began to gain widespread popularity, some have questioned how playing ...

In the United States alone, an estimated 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls play video games with 97 percent playing at least one hour per day. The revenue from the video game industry topped ...

Far from rotting our brains, video games may improve our cognition. But how we play them matters when it comes to the benefits they provide. By playing video games, “people are practicing complex ...

Controversies have surrounded video games since the first time they went public. Blaming began with the first Mortal Kombat, to the point that violence accusations were escalated to the court. These ...

In two previous articles (here and here), I summarized evidence countering the common fears about video games (that they are addictive and promote such maladies as social isolation, obesity, and ...