To deal with natural disasters, pandemics and geopolitical conflict, an unconventional genre of gaming helps first responders and government officials get the preparation they need in a “safe to fail” ...

The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz is launching the first professional master’s degree program in serious games offered in the United States, with an initial cohort of students starting ...

For Magy Seif El-Nasr, playing games is serious business. As a professor of computational media and the director of the Game User Interaction and Intelligence Lab at UC Santa Cruz, she studies how ...

Unlike gamification, where game elements are incorporated into real-world activities, the idea of serious games is to use entire games directly to solve serious problems. The most famous example is ...

A team of researchers are encouraging us to swap textbooks for games, as they drive the application of games in learning, engagement and research. A team of researchers are encouraging us to swap ...