Our very own Mary Couzin just wrote a fantastic article about games, their popularity, their value in educational settings, and what they can do for us as a society. Here's a quick glimpse just to tease you...

"Games help students connect, interact, and learn team building and leadership skills. In addition, playing games builds denser webs of neural connections that can last a lifetime, keeping the mind sharp and possibly delaying diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s...Strategic Intelligence (SI) is a hot topic for scientists, who believe that games increase SI."

Click here to read the article.