This chapter considers the potential to scale up the use of simulations and games for science learning. The first section provides an overview of current market penetration of games in formal and ...

True hard sci-fi games are few and far between, but when game developers get the hard science right in games like Per Aspera, ...

In 2020, a new minigame appeared in the video game Borderlands 3, located in the resident scientist’s laboratory on the spaceship Sanctuary III. Although the arcade game may seem like just another way ...

Games have become increasingly ubiquitous, with the enormous potential to be effective at reaching and teaching audiences. There are a few notable examples of games that tackle some of the important ...

A physicist, a gamer and two editors walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the setup for some joke. After work one night, a few Science News staffers tried out a new board game, Subatomic. This ...

Source: Korea Boardgames Korea Boardgames has officially released three science-themed board games—'15 Degrees,' ...

Terrence Smith has been writing since his early childhood, when he wrote his first fanfiction: Taz in the Temple of Cyber Power. He has grown up on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles in the ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have shown that players of the online citizen science game Foldit can successfully refine and improve ...

Based in China, Game Science is a video game company that debuted in 2014, with its first release being 2015's 100 Heroes. In 2024, the developer released Black Myth: Wukong, a project that went on to ...