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Serious Sports Catalogue of Digital Sports Games

The Serious Sports Project Game Catalogue is available from the Serious Sports EC Funded Project. The central aim of the Serious Sports project is to develop, based on “serious game” technology, a theoretical and re-usable framework, a digital sports game for training sports/ fitness coaches, an online digital sport games and game-based-learning repository and associated guidelines [...]

Digital Me: a Cognitive Assessment and Training Application

Pivec Labs have launched a crowd funding campaign to develop a new Cognitive Assessment and Training Application, using Enhanced Game Design to Accelerate Learning. The Project is based on 10 years of in-depth research and prototyping, and results have shown that with “Recursive Learning Theory” in a game based environment, these young people can accelerate their [...]

Games to treat Alzheimer’s

“The estimated cost of treating Alzheimer’s in the U.S. alone in 2012 is about $200 billion,” Dr. Harrison said. “By 2050 the cost of direct health care in just the U.S. for Alzheimer’s is going to be $1 trillion.”

Given the scale of the problem he suggested that anything that could be done to delay [...]

Euronews article and Video on Games for Learning.

Games are usually seen as recreaction but increasingly, educational games are being developed as an aid to learning. Computers and information technology are now part of daily life for many young people and some teachers are looking at ways of incorporating these new tools into their teaching.

UK: biology in 3D

In the Abbey School [...]