KEYWORD

gaming

Digital do-gooders

Informatics new hires plan to take beneficial gaming to the next level

A Bold New Sports Franchise

Seeing video games as the next frontier in college athletics, UCI launches player scholarships and a first-of-its-kind arena

Behind the Games

Alumna encourages other minority women to enter technology and engineering fields

Taking gaming to a new level

UCI’s eSports initiative will boast collegiate team, arena, scholarships

Playing 3-D video games can boost memory formation, UCI study finds

Results suggest novel approaches to maintaining cognition as we age

Ryan Sharpe

Playing the pain away

Alumnus Ryan Sharpe helps hospitalized kids cope via video games.

Alumnus Chris Canfield

The game boy behind ‘Rock Band’

Can’t stop playing ‘Rock Band’ or ‘Guitar Hero II’? Blame your addiction on UC Irvine alumnus Chris Canfield, who helped create them.

Shattering stereotypes

At UCI, women are breaking into computer gaming’s male-dominated world and evening the score in this burgeoning industry