AUSTIN, Texas--Game designers may be the professionals best suited to help humans find happiness in the future. That was the thesis of world-famous alternate-reality game designer Jane McGonigal's ...

Games designer/theorist Jane McGonigal wrote a great book a while ago called Reality Is Broken, which argues that the reason humans spend three billion hours a week playing online games is that games ...

Jane is a game designer who has been making games online for ten years. The plan is to make it as easy to save the real world as it is in a game. She knows that we spend 3 billion hours per week ...

Remember when you were a kid, and either your parents or some other adults would tell you video games were going to “rot your brain,” and they weren’t good for you? Jane McGonigal certainly doesn’t ...

Her recent book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World proposes that "the most difficult challenges facing humanity can be resolved by tapping into the skills ...

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One of the world's leading designers of alternate-reality games tells CNET News.com about how her new Olympics-themed project came to be and what players can learn from it. Daniel Terdiman is a senior ...

CryptoZoo aims to get gamers off the couch and into the streets, letting them find clues about mythical animals in the real world and exercise in their spare moments. It’s an alternate reality game — ...

As addictive as Tetris, McGonigal's penetrating, entertaining look into gaming culture is a vibrant mix of technology, psychology, and sociology, told with the vision of a futurist and the deft touch ...