In the wake of the Games for Change Africa festival, which took place towards the end of2022, it's becoming increasingly clear that gaming - and impact gaming in particular - has the potential to be a significant force for good across the African continent.
Read MoreWhen you sign up to play roulette at an online casino, you should anticipate getting greater promotional offers than at a live gambling location because the house has a much smaller overhead cost to run the operation.
Read MoreA conference about games isn't the first place you'd expect to find a nursing school employee, but Peery wasn't there to talk about nursing students playing first-person shooter games or the latest zany Mario Brothers adventure.
Read MoreA new scientific study suggests that video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children.
Read MoreResearchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are building a serious video game to help cities prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyberattacks.
Read MoreSarah Stang hopes to use her new role as Assistant Professor with Brock University's Centre for Digital Humanities to help equip the next generation of game designers with the knowledge they need to make gaming more diverse.
Read MoreTo help X-ers become better quitters, Teller has come up with a unique mental model that has been woven into the fabric of X: monkeys and pedestals. It's one of the best tools for helping you figure out when to quit closer to on time.
Read MoreThe 1988 game 'Life & Death', in which players had to assume the role of a surgeon and diagnose and treat various medical conditions using a combination of text-based commands and simple graphics, is considered one of the earliest medical video games.
Read MoreLeaderboard-equipped assessments: Quizzes are a common way for learning platforms to evaluate user understanding, so why not include a leaderboard to give users a competitive edge? Gamified learning approaches: Consider your staff's learning and career prospects as "Stages" that must become completed.
Read MoreWithin this, female gamers represent 48 per cent of the global mobile gaming market - which mirrors the population at large, with 21 per cent of adult mobile gamers being women aged 36 yrs+.
Read MoreVideo games tend to offer escapism by exploring the unimaginable; they allow gamers to tune out for a few hours by getting in the shoes of super-soldiers, the spurred boots of western rustlers or even stray household pets while living out their stories across sci-fi dystopias, vast fantasy worlds or the deep expanses of space.
Read MoreAlthough game-based learning is fun, it's important to know there is a difference between gaming for fun and game-based learning. Research has shown that game-based learning leads to improved learning outcomes.
Read MoreCreative director Nick Lang notes the lack of attention toward autistic gamers is surprising considering that gaming can be a "Huge resource and source of comfort" for people on the spectrum.
Read MoreRock Your Watershed, an online game from the Water Rocks! youth water quality and conservation outreach and education program at Iowa State University, is widely recognized for giving players a fun and educational opportunity to see how land use decisions that balance conservation and profitability directly affect downstream water quality.
Read MoreUsing games to learn real-life skills can both be entertaining and educational, formally called the "Edutainment" system. We have recently stumbled upon one of EA's latest published patent, dubbed "EDUTAINMENT OVERLAY FOR LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN VIDEO GAMES," which seeks to add an Edutainment overlay in its titles using artificial intelligence technologies.
Read MoreFollowing its release, a moral panic has set in about the impact ChatGPT will have on cheating in school. Put another way, the misuse of ChatGPT by students is more like cheating at solitaire than it is like cheating at poker.
Read MoreWe also priced our software very differently from others; the more a customer uses our software, the less they pay per player. Plus, I have always wanted to build my own software company! So, PlayTours was born.
Read MoreThe researchers employed game refinement, the motion-in-mind model, and AI simulations to assess the impact of sudden movements in card games with incomplete information.
Read MoreNew research findings challenge the fears parents have been hearing for years that children who spend hour after hour playing video games, or choose games of certain genres, would manifest unhealthy results in their cognitive ability.
Read MoreState of the art in understanding and mitigating information leakage about training data in machine learning models involves using privacy games to capture threat models and measure the risks of deploying ML models.
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