From Edutainment to Serious Games: A Change in the Use of Game Characteristics

By Dennis Charsky. Games Cult., 2010

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “With “ serious ” educational games emerging as a core component of the gaming industry (Charsky, 2010; Connolly, Boyle, MacArthur, Hainey, & Boyle, 2012), it will be essential for research to evaluate whether the alleged benefits of serious game use are more than just hype (cf. DeLoache et al.,…”