game research
US Department of Homeland Security issues a nearly $700K grant to research extremism in gaming
There are toxic people in games chat, and then there are people who use video gaming platforms as a ways to encourage extremism and...
GDC 2021: Research on online video game voice chat has come a long way
Covering studies about video gamers often reveals a glaring problem with the science on the topic: Most of it looks has traditionally surveyed text...
For science: New long-term study shows video games don’t make adults violent
Before we start, yes, I'm sure many of our readers are feeling a big wave of "duh" at the statement in the headline, but...
A Parent’s Guide to Video Games: Condensing ‘The Video Game Debate’
Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....
Massively OP’s guide to understanding video game research
I noticed two strange things in the comments section of our lengthy Exploring the Video Game Debate series: People were angry at research that...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Cognitive performance and your brain on games
So far in our exploration of the topics in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video...