Hop on Xbox Live and search for Mars Rover Landing. You'll find a Kinect game made by NASA and Microsoft that's meant to simulate the tense experience of landing Curiosity, NASA's rover that will land on Mars on August 5 after eight and a half months of travel. Read… 7/16/12 7:30pm 7/16/12 7:30pm

Are educational games broken? Can Portal help fix them? Read… 6/19/12 8:00pm 6/19/12 8:00pm

Scott Laidlaw is slowing down the pace on educational math games. Read… 7/05/11 7:30pm 7/05/11 7:30pm

Spring has returned, a time when children across the country turn off their video game consoles and venture out into the woods, building tree forts and rolling about in the underbrush. That is, until they play Tick Tackler. Then they're never going outside again. Read… 3/21/11 2:00pm 3/21/11 2:00pm

Now everyone on Facebook can experience the joy of hunting criminals and having dysentery, as Blue Fang Games and The Learning Company bring two of the most beloved learning computer games of all time to the social network next month. Read… 1/26/11 3:20pm 1/26/11 3:20pm

The adventures of Prince Stinkyninja the bunny would not be possible without National Geographic's Animal Jam, an online animal kingdom filled with learning and adventure. They say it's for kids, but Prince Stinkyninja says otherwise. Read… 8/03/10 11:20am 8/03/10 11:20am

This trailer, allegedly for a movie based on everyone's favorite edutainment game Oregon Trail, is so well done I honestly triple-checked to make sure the movie wasn't really being filmed. Read… 8/02/10 10:00pm 8/02/10 10:00pm

Adventure game company Legacy Interactive and the American College Of Emergency Physicians have teamed up to create Disaster Hero, a web-based game aimed at helping people keep it together while the world is falling apart. Read… 6/23/10 1:30pm 6/23/10 1:30pm

An action-packed math game students enjoy playing is a little too fun for some parents of the Albuquerque schools, one of whom went as far as accusing it of fostering video games addiction. Read… 6/07/10 9:30pm 6/07/10 9:30pm

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently spoke a word of charity for video games, telling ABC News in an interview that the medium's a "fabulous" way to get children to learn. Read… 5/27/10 7:20pm 5/27/10 7:20pm

University of Guelph professor Barbara Morrongiello doesn't want your children to be eaten by dogs, so she's created a video game that will teach kids how to avoid catastrophic canine confrontations. Read… 4/14/10 11:40am 4/14/10 11:40am

For thousands of years, societies taught and trained their children through immersive gameplay and storytelling. Prospect Magazine's Julian Gough wonders why we ever stopped, and ponders a fantasy world where the games of today form the children of tomorrow. Read… 3/31/10 11:40am 3/31/10 11:40am

It may be the most hideous Choplifter rip-off ever created, but at least "CyberDodo fights against the sexual exploitation of children" has its heart in the right place. Read… 3/03/10 12:40pm 3/03/10 12:40pm

The National Institute of Health is granting Yale associate professor Dr. Lynn Fielin $3.9 million over five years to develop a game aimed at helping children aged 9 through 14 say no to sex, drugs, and other HIV-transmitting behaviors. Read… 2/05/10 1:20pm 2/05/10 1:20pm

Warner Bros. has inked a new deal with Sesame Workshop to develop and publish video games based on the Sesame Street license, hopefully bringing more Muppets to an industry deficient on google eyes and felt. Read… 1/13/10 2:30pm 1/13/10 2:30pm

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) borrowed a page from Fantastic Voyage and Innerspace to make an educational video game about cell biology called Immune Attack for 7th-12th graders in the U.S. Read… 12/07/09 3:00pm 12/07/09 3:00pm

A new patent application Nintendo has filed in the U.S. tips its hand to a potential new focus for the game-maker, and no, it is not core gamers. Read… 3/21/09 5:00pm 3/21/09 5:00pm

I have to hand it to this little web start-up company: it's a gutsy strategy to deceive schoolchildren with a game called "DreamBox Learning K-2 Math." I'd have thought Math Blaster was subtler edutainment. Read… 1/27/09 9:40pm 1/27/09 9:40pm

A survey conducted on behalf of Nintendo to help market Personal Trainer: Math for the DS finds that one in five children believe they're more likely to become famous than excel at math. Read… 1/12/09 11:40am 1/12/09 11:40am

I've seen plenty of edumacational games and I'm always delighted to explore how they surreptitiously teach people as they play a game. But this is the first time I've played a edu-pinbal game. Read… 12/31/08 5:00pm 12/31/08 5:00pm