Is It All Just a Game – Will Social Media Regulation Impact Video Games? Teen mental health has continued to decline and is prompting an acceleration in proposals to regulate
With billions of hours spent gaming worldwide, scientists have been delving into the effects of this popular pastime, and what they found is fascinating! From improved attention and spatial skills
I’ve been designing games and gamified apps that improve health and wellbeing for around a decade. When I first started designing in this sector, things were fuzzy and ill-defined. People
For years, there has been a debate surrounding the connection between video games and gun violence. Stanford Researchers’ meticulous review really left no stone unturned. Their comprehensive analysis of 82
Can you imagine getting an amazing work out and not even knowing you’re doing it? It’s coming to the end of February, which means New Years Resolutions, especially those involving
This excellent article written by John Kehayias brings us closer to learning how our memories can really work for us. To remember something we must be compelled and a strong
Expert video gamers show lower levels of generalized anxiety and significantly better attention when compared to non-experts… and they’re just more chill. This 2022 study looked at the impact of
OK! This Might Change Everything… Specifically, this might be exactly where video gaming and medicine begin to merge in an even more engaging and powerful way! A gaming streamer named
A VR experience can elicit a response indistinguishable from LSD or magic mushrooms. A VR experience called Isness-D, measured on four key indicators used in studies of psychedelics, showed the
After years of living with crippling fears, patients are getting relief after six weeks of treatment – how? We are all scared of something. It may be spiders, climbing ladders
Can Video Games Make You More Creative? – They can, but it matters how you play them. This experimental study included 352 undergraduates and compared the effect of playing “Minecraft”
This research shows that video games can make you smarter, but not all of them. The ones that do may surprise you! Many off-the-shelf games were not shown to improve