The best modern video and online games do more than entertain. They also teach–and give players a say in how they learn. MIT is a pioneer in this participatory, games-to-­educate approach, with a ...

“As game designers,” MIT’s Scot Osterweil says, “we’re convinced that game playing is a lot like science: There is problem-solving, exploration, collaboration, hypothesizing, testing and learning from ...

Physicists and game developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Game Lab have launched a video game that teaches players about relativity by slowing down the speed of light. A Slower ...

The place where the video game was invented more than 50 years ago now wants to teach teachers, entrepreneurs and students how to design games for learning — and it is hoping that the end result will ...

A bite-sized computer game exploring the effects of Einstein's special theory of relativity is the first output from the MIT Game Lab made available online. In A Slower Speed of Light, the player ...

As the buzz around games and learning continues to grow, one particular subset -- Massive Open Online (MMO) games -- is catching the attention of educators as a particularly interesting way to ...

As self-driving cars slowly make their way onto our roads, how will developers help these autonomous vehicles make difficult decisions during accidents? A new MIT project illustrates just how ...

Caption: An MIT Game Lab prototype being demonstrated to a group of MIT students. Photo provided by MIT Game Lab. Caption: An MIT Game Lab prototype being demonstrated to a group of MIT students.

Students and researchers of the MIT Game Lab have released an open-source toolkit to simulate the visual effects of special relativity in games and graphics applications. Intended for game developers, ...

Another tidbit from Henry Jenkins' blog, and a quick update to my story on game schools: in the intervening months or so since my interviews with the MIT-Singapore International Game Lab crew, they've ...

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At the country's leading universities, thousands of new ideas are being explored and developed, so it's difficult for anyone to determine which ones are truly the next game changers. But in a new book ...