Many people have the image of video games as socially isolating, if not psychologically addicting. Yet, like my friend Kristin demonstrated when she joined her son in the online game Wizard101 (see ...

Since the fall of the first block of Tetris, people have worried about the addictive nature of video games. But there’s a reason why they are so good at capturing our attention. Research from UC ...

In my last post (Video Games, Problem-Solving and Self-Efficacy - Part 2), I talked about how games are games function as learning environments. In this third, and final, post, I will talk about how ...