A growing number of young Americans are ready to press play on video games. This holiday season, video game-related gifts are topping wish lists for 76% of U.S. children ages 10-17, according to a ...

Playing video games may boost your cognitive abilities and exercise can play a role in improving your mental health, but not the other way around, a large-scale study has found. The surprise ...

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) reported that 61% of Americans ages five to 90 — 190.6 million people — play video games. In its annual Essential Facts About the U.S. Video Game ...

With this in mind, Pew Research Center surveyed 1,423 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 about their own video game habits – from how often they play to the friends they’ve made and whether it gets in the way ...

A Google DeepMind artificial intelligence model can play different open-world video games, such as No Man’s Sky, like a human just by watching video from a screen, which could be a step towards ...

Jones' son, 21-year-old Preston Johnson, started playing video games at age 12. According to Jones, by age 16, he had dropped out of high school "due to his desire to stay home and play video games." ...

Respondents also claimed video games have helped them advance skills, such as cooperating with others (38%), playing certain sports (19%) and driving (17%). More than two-thirds (68%) of ...

If you spend more than an hour a day playing video games, that’s 5% of your life. Will this time investment do anything good for your brain? This is a question that my colleagues and I at UC ...

Winter is coming, and like any red-blooded American, I plan to spend it hibernating and playing video games. But not just any video games. I’m into single-player narrative games that last a long ...

A surprising new study has found that children who reported playing video games for three hours or more per day performed better on cognitive skills tests involving memory and impulse control ...

A new study can’t say if video games caused any improvements in brain function but added more data showing that kids who play video games have brains that behave differently A new study can’t ...