Koichi Hayashida, director of the successful Super Mario 3D Land, talked about Nintendo’s most important franchise. Of course we’re talking about Mario games. The plumber’s endless success is due, according to Koichi, to the combination of the old signs of the series and the exploitation of Nintendo’s hardware and its unique possibilities. One of the key elements is that every time we offer new hardware, it’s its unique technological capabilities that allow us to offer new playable combinations that are familiar to this universe. These allow us to make something new that is very special with that hardware. It’s the combination of the familiar and the new that keeps people fresh.

He also had time to talk about the importance of Miyamoto-san’s ideas in the series. Of course Miyamoto-san is not retiring in the short term, and I have to say that I will work as hard as I can on games now and in the future, but Nintendo is built on a lot of great ideas, many of which have been provided by Miyamoto-san himself. We are very concerned about these ideas, and we strive to understand and use them in our work. We also do our best to offer these ideas to the next generation of developers, and that’s an ongoing process.

A Uruguayan research assures that video games are more effective than memorizing texts to learn history. The study carried out on 32 students from fifth to sixth grade of a private school with the objective of quantifying the impact that a video game made specifically to educate can generate in learning; it showed that effectively the students who retained the most information were those who played the video game, as reported by the Uruguayan portal El País.

The research was carried out by the Uruguayan company Ingenious Softworks (specialized in design and development of software systems) with the support of the National Telecommunications Directorate and the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) of that country, with the participation of a psychiatrist and a psychologist.

Video games are gaining ground as a tool to disseminate educational content and train cognitive skills. But what aspects should be taken into account?

Just as there are fanatics, there are detractors who believe that learning does not always have to be entertaining or tied to fun. However, in the new generation accustomed to interactivity, the hyper-reduction of ideas and the audiovisual format, video games appear as an invaluable tool for teaching. But it is not always used to its full potential.

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Video games have often been the target of criticism, being blamed for promoting violence and encouraging self-isolation. In some countries, even video games considered “violent” have been banned by law. However, research has not agreed on the existence of a link between violence and video games, and some conclusions have been reached about the positive effects of video games on the brain and cognitive abilities.