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Why the Video Game Industry is Susceptible to Hacks (and How to Protect Yourself)

Gaming platforms and forums represent a high level of risk, even though these accounts often do not provide direct access to sensitive data such as bank accounts, credit cards, or social security numbers.

5 Video Games That Can Also Teach STEM Skills

They may not be played in schools, but here are some amazing games that have great learning opportunities built right in.

Roblox Brings Coding (and Jurassic Park) to the Classroom

Over the past two years, the community-based game/development platform Roblox has exploded. While it might sound like a confusing concept, the platform is immensely popular, attracting 64 million monthly users according to Business Insider. The program acts as both development platform and game, allowing players to boot up millions of...

How to Play Video Games For a Living, As Told By DownToQuest

In 2014, Amazon spent $970 million to buy the video game streaming service Twitch. At the time, it sounded a bit absurd. However, as of July 2014, the site had over 15 billion minutes of content, with users spending over 100 minutes a day on the site according to Business Insider.Today, those numbers have only grown. Per their...

Magikarp Jump: The Best Game About Teaching Fish To Jump

It took Nintendo quite some time to embrace mobile gaming. Up until the release of Super Mario Run late last year, the company had avoided directly developing games for smartphones for years. Well, that didn’t stop The Pokémon Company, the developers of a little-known series called Pokémon, from showing our phones some Poké-love....