Video games are often criticized by researchers because of how much time users spend interacting with them. Playing video games every day is seen as unhealthy, but new studies show that it might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though folks of a certain age often dismiss online gaming as an activity that stunts players' social skills and can lead to sleep ...

In the United States alone, an estimated 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls play video games with 97 percent playing at least one hour per day. The revenue from the video game industry topped ...

New report outlines the social, mental and emotional benefits of gameplay according to academic research and affirmed by a survey of nearly 13,000 active players across 12 countries.

CU Boulder scientists find that playing video games comes with small but significant cognitive benefits Ever since video games began to gain widespread popularity, some have questioned how playing ...

A team of mental health, human behavior and economic specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found that under the right conditions, playing video games may be good for mental ...

Video Games have often seemed like they should be limited or avoided, but the games have positive benefits too.

Controversies have surrounded video games since the first time they went public. Blaming began with the first Mortal Kombat, to the point that violence accusations were escalated to the court. These ...