Michael Levine

Executive Director, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center

The popularity and increasing innovation of video game play is providing a new and surprisingly fresh framework for policy discussions about education reform.

Jason Alderman

Senior Director, Visa Inc.

Next time you're tempted to lecture your kids about wasting too much time on video games, first check out which games they're playing -- it turns out they may actually be learning important life lessons.

Matt Cohen

MBA and a writer for MAD Magazine

Yes, on paper, office work doesn't sound as exciting as shooting zombies, but in practice, the following five games with corporate settings still prove that there's plenty of fun to be had by playing games at work.

Charles Tsai

Journalist, writer, speaker and consultant for social entrepreneurs

Through role-playing games, you take on someone else's point of view and evaluate every key decision through that person's eyes. That's the very definition of empathy.

Raymond Schillinger

Web Producer | Filmmaker

"Gamification" in the real world is not new. Countless aspects of our society -- from tax incentives to local elections -- can be explained in terms of game mechanics.

Suzanne Seggerman

Suzanne Seggerman is Co-founder and former President of G4C, a non-profit and new movement promoting games for social change.

Games let players interact with a story, rather than passively consume it. This keeps them engaged.