Super Mario Maker 2 lets kids become game designers. They can build custom Mario levels using blocks, enemies, and power-ups, ...

Remember the days of Neopets? Do you remember what it was like to care for your virtual pets? Well, Adopt Me! is like a spiritual successor except with less HTML and more 3D models. The whole game is ...

Video games can get a bad rap when it comes to kids and mental health, but their impact on child development is often misunderstood. Gaming can be a powerful training tool for a variety of skills. If ...

Looks like Fortnite and Minecraft aren’t turning your kids’ brains to mush after all. A surprising new study has found that children who reported playing video games for three hours or more per day ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks to University of Vermont professor Bader Chaarani about why playing video games might actually have some positive effects on a child's cognition. For a time in the '90s and ...

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