When Laurel set off in 1995 to create an industry that listened to little girls, she had high hopes, according to her field manual on socially positive work, Utopian Entrepreneur.Games were a ...

In this piece, Girls Make Games creator Laila Shabir explains the need for more young women building video games. “Girls don’t like playing video games.” It’s time to get rid of this age ...

A solitary, silent majority of teenage girls plays video games: often alone, rarely online. When teenage girls do venture online to play games—and a fair chunk of them do, quite regularly—they ...

Teenage boys play more video games than teenage girls, but the gap between them may be smaller than you think. Pew Research Center's latest survey found that 83 percent of teenage girls played ...

How are video games good for girls? The study, which involved 287 families with children aged 11 to 16, saw a 20 percent increase in "positive indicators" — improved mental health, better ...

Those girls behaved better, felt more connected to their families and had stronger mental health. Professor Sarah Coyne is the lead author of the study, which appears Feb. 1 in the Journal of ...