Inside Michigan Tech's Aging, Cognition and Action Lab, space debris rains down on a screen as players scramble to deflect it ...

It's a re-worked classic Rubik's Cube that adds an element of Tetris. Instead of maneuvering the cube to line up each color ...

Welcome back! For Day 4 of the challenge, let’s do a short and fun activity based around a concept called cognitive reserve.

Games can sharpen attention and learning when challenge scales. The real lesson is the gradient. Train effective intelligence ...

Connecting the dots: Far from being a mindless escape, video games help the brain process information more efficiently and adapt more readily to complex tasks, according to a growing body of research.

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

Challenge yourself with this wild brain teaser game designed to test your wits and logic skills. Perfect for puzzle lovers looking for a fun and engaging mental workout. Can you solve all the tricky ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...

Editor’s note: Variety was part of the jury for The Game Awards 2025.

Lumos Labs has obtained a clearance from the FDA for its popular Lumosity brain training platform, greenlighting a version of it to be marketed as a prescription ...

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear ...

Who hasn’t thought to themselves, I’d really like to play something new again, but unfortunately my wallet looks so empty. These days, a full-price game costs at least $70–sometimes even more. There ...