Games Content

Internet Communities Can Teach Amateurs to Build Personalized Governments

Karen Michele Nikos — July 11, 2019 - 2:05pm

The internet has its perils with privacy breaches and fake news, but on the plus side, a whole generation of youth have been teaching themselves skills in leadership and community-building, according to a new University of California, Davis, study.

It’s Not How You Play the Game, but How the Dice Were Made

Karen Michele Nikos — January 30, 2018 - 9:56am

Playing dice have seen many changes through history, evolving to the symmetrical cube shape they are today. Today's even-shaped dice are more "fair" than their predecessors.

Study Debunks Gender Performance Gap in Online Video Games

Andy Fell — June 20, 2016 - 12:13pm

Online video games are increasingly popular with women, but stereotypes persist. A new 51�ԹϺ�� Davis-led study of two large online gamer communities shows that female gamers progress at the same rate as men once confounding factors are taken into account.