Serious games are digital simulations designed not merely for entertainment but to achieve practical objectives in education, training, health promotion, and public policy. By integrating game ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gambit games laboratory, a partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Singapore government, has added a serious game to its range of games designed to help people ...