Video games are good for children – EU report
Study calls for schools to make use of games and urges parents to take more interest in them
Acting up
Working as a film extra is a great way of making up to £200 a day while rubbing shoulders with Hollywood A-listers. As Hazel Davis discovers, there's even an agency just for students
Welsh university turns Spielberg the colour purple
Lampeter forced to apologise for using director's photo to advertise scriptwriting course
Latest threat to student health: trolls and orcs
Online fantasy war game blamed for spiralling college drop-out rates in the US
Ethical hacking course launched
New course offers members of the public chance to learn professional computer hacker skills from home
Games can have a serious role to play
Victor Keegan: People have been saying for years that computer games need to grow up- and maybe they have
Games for the very young
With the Festive season approaching, even if you don't have young children of your own, you are likely to be thrust into a situation where you are required to entertain a three-year-old. Whether it's a family get-together, an afternoon office do or just your neighbours mischeiviously sending their kids around during the Xmas Bond film, an unexpected toddler experience can be traumatic. So can videogames help?
Online gaming helps, doesn’t hinder
The results of a three-year longitudinal study funded by the MacArthur Foundation have argued that online games and social networking tools help kids' development, rather than hinder it
Geoengineering ‘no substitute’ for climate targets, UK minister warns
Research into drastic solutions to climate change risks hampering global climate negotiations by giving some countries an excuse for not agreeing to emissions targets, minister says
What we can learn about learning from videogames
Keith Stuart on the hotly debated subject of learning from computer games
Bletchley Park saved for posterity
Second world war code-breaking centre wins £330,000 grant from English Heritage