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The 180Watch lets you game the LSAT, and may help with anxiety
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The electronic board game bringing blind children more opportunities to play
The benefits of play should be accessible.
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Sesame Street knows the way to a kid’s brain is through their funny bone
Educating children with a smile.
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Arcades are moving out of America’s deteriorating shopping malls and into its libraries.
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Can virtual reality make us more empathetic?
Scientists are learning that changing bodies changes minds.
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Could videogames be a bit more childlike? A Two5six preview.
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Piper brings the playability of Minecraft to computer engineering
Recently, I helped (let’s be honest, mostly watched) someone build a PC for the first time. Now, I’m not exactly what you’d call a “tech-savy” person—by which I mean computers scare the living daylights out of me. They’re just so daunting: their finickiness and delicacy, the mountains of information
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Givling: The game for the student debt generation
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Inside the programming tool designed to get more girls into coding
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Peter Molyneux, David Cage, and Europe’s largest public school of videogames
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A video handily explains all the wonderful things videogames do for your brain
It’s well-documented at this point that playing videogames has an effect on your brain. It’s just what effect, exactly, that scientists haven’t quite figured out. Something to do with decision-making and sensory awareness, right? But it’s a step toward appreciating games for what they are—valuable i