SAN JOSE, Calif.--So-called serious games have a serious problem. Serious games usually have a message promoting education, science, health care or even the military. They're meant to educate people ...

Let's start with a statement that learning doesn't have to be tedious. In fact, it can be downright fun, which is a fact proven by the existence of serious games. Their creators promote a ...

A team of researchers are encouraging us to swap textbooks for games, as they drive the application of games in learning, engagement and research. A team of researchers are encouraging us to swap ...

The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz is launching the first professional master’s degree program in serious games offered in the United States, with an initial cohort of students starting ...

Unlike gamification, where game elements are incorporated into real-world activities, the idea of serious games is to use entire games directly to solve serious problems. The most famous example is ...