For generations, children have been warned that sitting in front of a screen for too long will give them square eyes. But an hour a day spent playing computer games can actually help to cure a lazy ...

This is an updated version of one of my favourite stories from last year, edited to include a sequel study that develops and expands on the first one. You’ve just been in a horrific car crash. You’re ...

In the nearly 40 years since Tetris was invented, it has sold more than 520 million copies worldwide and been downloaded over 615 million times on mobile devices alone. The puzzle game—which requires ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Director Jon S. Baird’s Apple TV Plus Tetris movie is a textbook example of a biopic that has no idea how to make ...

A behavioral intervention procedure including the computer game Tetris could help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to alleviate involuntarily recurring visual memories of traumatic ...

It was the final match of the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship, and Jeff Moore, a thirty-six-year-old from Las Vegas, was playing out of his mind. “Boom!” the announcers yelled with each ...

They all rely on people's ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This is a spatial skill that developmental psychologists call mental ...

David Daley receives funding from National Institute for Health Reseach, Shire, From iPads to Xboxes, the modern child has a vast array of electronic media to help alleviate boredom, pass the time and ...

In the 1980s, a humble yet compelling computer puzzle game called Tetris unexpectedly transformed into an addictive global phenomenon that consumed countless waking hours of obsessed players around ...

Yes, what you are seeing is a real segment of a children’s educational game. A section of Slave Trade, recently discounted on Steam, saw the player have to stack slaves in a tasteless challenge called ...