If you've ever closed your eyes and seen tetrominoes falling into place, or Angry Birds slamming into stone walls,…
Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a…
In the dark times, before the internet and video games, British children played outside. Now? They don't!
Poring over the data, sifting through more than 1,700 specimens, a team of MIT researchers is, as we speak, catalogin…
For about a year, Crytek has offered universities a free license to its CryEngine 3, the guts of this month's big…
When its not crunching data brought back by spy plane missions, the US Air Force's PlayStation 3 super-computer…
Evaluated against two other dedicated pedometers, the Pokéwalker - an add-on device for the HeartGold and SoulSilver…
In today's episode of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Phantomlink ponders the research that goes into buying a new…
A researcher at Oxford University queried adults who were 16 years old in 1986 and found a correlation between an…

Researchers at a government-funded laboratory have built a giant touchscreen video game that simulates the capture…

Microsoft's research team in Cambridge has published a paper outlining several ways the speed and accuracy of…
Hey, Farmville fans. When you log on and plant seeds, you're not actually enjoying a game. You're stuck in what's…

Researchers at a German university have built an apparatus that, while clunky in its proof-of-concept stage, could…
The University of Minnesota has saved more than $100,000 in research funds by using the Xbox 360 Kinect to aid in…
The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of…
Research that last year suggested gamers had the ability to control their dreams - or fight back in nightmares - has…
An earthquake fixed attention and sympathy this week on New Zealand, where more than 100 died and more than 200…
If you've ever felt like comparing how much money a "traditional" video game makes as opposed to how much a Facebook…
As with all electronic devices, the Nintendo 3DS went through a prototyping stage. Thing is, the unused prototype…
The United States has been growing increasingly more obese over the past few decades, and video games are often…