Serious games usually have a message promoting education, science, health care or even the military. They’re meant to educate people by simulating real-world events and are often created with the best of intentions. The problem is, education, science and health care aren’t exactly the stuff of exciting entertainment, let alone [...] Continue Reading…

The New York-based Education Development Center (EDC) has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supporting the development of handheld games designed to improve reading comprehension among struggling middle school students.

The Gates Foundation grant supports the EDC’s two-year research project “Portable Word Play: Discovering What Handheld [...] Continue Reading…

An educational game design course created by Professor Maja & Paul Pivec, has taught over 300 information design students at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Austria. They wanted to introduce this topic to the coming generation of potential game designers and make them aware of this new [...] Continue Reading…

Vienna’s annual Games Conference FROG offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights into [...] Continue Reading…