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 video games.
So what to do about [...]

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 Games Can do for Adolescent Reading [...]