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Enviro-Bear!

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You are a bear, winter is coming, so drive around and eat fish and berries to prepare to hibernate! Alright, this may be far fetched as a science based game, but the execution is just amazing! As the say in the video: “The best bear driving simulator ever made”. Bonus points for how upset the [...]


Riflebird!

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Here’s another great example of how an important biological concept (sexual selection) can be tranferred in a simple way using a game. Player 1 plays a male riflebird that calls and displays to a female. Player 2 plays a female that judges the male. Whether or not Player 1 gets to mate will depend on [...]


Benthic Love

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Benthic Love is a game about exploring the ocean depths as an angler fish. The artwork is fantastic and the biology is spot on (from what I’ve explored of the game anyway). It is a fun little game that does an excellent job of marrying teaching the biology of a fascinating organism and have fun [...]


Cuddlefish!

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Here is a wonderful little game that allows you to take up the story of being a male cuttlefish exploring the ocean in search of a female to mate with. It’s a fun little story that mixes human emotions with the biology of cuttlefish, allowing you to explore the amazing behaviours of this animal. It’s [...]


Learning science through gaming!

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With all the new indie and zinester style games being released, it’s time to add a section that highlights some of the wonderful games that individuals have created about science. I’ll be updating details on this site every time I find a game that teaches gamers some aspect about science, no matter how simple. Also, [...]


Scientific proof that gamers are ridiculously sexist

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Unfortunately, sexism is common place in much of society. From wage equality to health coverage for birth control, women seem to have to justify to men why they are deserving of all these things. Given this uphill battle women have, you would think that we could all just play games together in peace. Unfortunately, it [...]


Cheating, stealing and why guys play video games

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Questions of what why individuals play violent video games are currently at the forefront of psychological research. Most studies, however, examine video game choices through self-reported surveys. Although interesting, there is a limit to the inferences and understanding one can gain from such studies, and more importantly, it doesn’t answer what specifically drives game choice. [...]


Gaming till the day I die

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Studies of video games often focus on the effect they have on children. But given that the majority of gamers are adults and that we have a growing ageing population, it’s as important to understand the role games play in the lives of older adults. In this study, Allaire and colleagues explored the role digital [...]


Video games and our brains on winning

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The pleasure centers in our brain respond to positive outcomes and winning is no different. Yet, beating different opponents may have different values to a player. Apart from examining the brains responses to winning or losing in a video game, Kätsyri and colleagues examined whether these differences are further exaggerated by the type of opponent: human [...]


Why kids play video games

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“…there maybe great value in understanding video games as something children choose to do rather than something done to them.” This idea, grounded in self-determination theory, is how Chris Ferguson and Cheryl Olsen (co-writer of Grand Theft Childhood) decided to explore why children play video games in general, and why some decide to play violent video [...]