Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

Risk, the board game, “made Cold War kids masters of an unruly globe.” It taught my generation that alliances have limits, that odds don’t predict the future and that Prince Metternich was right: that ...

National Video Game Day was celebrated on September 12, which leads to the question: Why would something that's so much a part of modern life need any extra promotion? Unfortunately, video games get a ...

If you want to improve your aerobic capacity, play full-court basketball, not softball. To improve your analytical skills, learn to play chess or bridge, not Chutes and Ladders. If you really want to ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. One highlight of my Grade 3 ...

Last year, Nicholas Mulder, a history professor at Cornell University, asked his Twitter followers to help him understand a certain kind of student in his classes: players of the video game Europa ...

Teens compete in a video game tournament at the Portland Public Library in Maine in 2018. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this ...

From simple pastimes, video games have become vital cultural forces shaping the future of entertainment, social life, technological innovation, and the very way we learn and interact with the world.

Andre Thomas works for Texas A&M University and also for Triseum, a spin-off from the university that publishes the games developed at Texas A&M. In an effort to curtail how much time young people ...

Playing video games is a popular activity people do in their free time. However, video games can have major effects on health. People debate whether these effects are good or bad. Video games can ...

Does your child spend hours playing Minecraft, Roblox, or Fortnite? Is it a complete waste of time? Probably not, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports. The authors of this ...