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PLAYING video games is associated with small but consistent improvements in cognitive ability, a large meta-analysis of 133 studies concludes, with gains spanning memory, attention, and reasoning, that held regardless of age, sex, or the type of game played

The dawn of the 21st century proved to be a pivotal time for the gaming industry on multiple fronts. The year saw the launch of the Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance as the new console generation took shape. Meanwhile, Sony continued its support for its latest console, the PlayStation 2, while Sega quietly stopped…

Gaming can act as a tool for analysing complex issues and educating participants. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights 10 EU-funded projects developing serious games for researchers, students, patients and members of the public. These projects generate recommendations for EU policies and push forward research on videogames, helping to set the EU videogame sector on a…

One of the most beloved shared universes is the superhero-laden Marvel Universe, which includes everyone from the X-Men to the Avengers. Ever since the Atari 2600 era, these heroes and villains have been adapted into the video game medium. All these decades later, whenever a Marvel game is set to be released, it still feels…

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a…