Meditative hits like 'Stardew Valley' and 'Animal Crossing' are helping a generation of gamers foster helpful habits.

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Minecraft is one of the most popular video games of all time ... surprising that natural selection endowed young people with a strong drive to play at building things," says Gray.

“People expect me to play by different rules because I’m gay and I should be more politically correct about that, and I should actually be way more knowledgeable about it,” Roan said.

As a mother of a 15-month-old, a graduate faculty member, and a trauma-informed clinician, I understand how powerful play can be in shaping a child’s understanding of themselves and the world ...

My childhood was a self-inventive enterprise. It had to be, because no one had yet invented video games, or smartphones to play them on. There was no text messaging, c u l 8er, no internet ...

For an immersive production called Jury Games, a dozen people gathered in a conference room in London, scrutinizing evidence and deliberating to reach a verdict in an arson-murder case.Credit ...

However, Sakurai feels that people overseas who love Japanese games aren’t looking for this kind of filtered experience, “but rather, I think that they seek the uniqueness and fun of Japanese games” – ...