The Honorable Jamieson Greer United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20508 RE: United States Leadership in […]
03.27.2025
Taking place April 27–30, 2026 in Las Vegas, the Interactive Innovation Conference is set to be an essential convening for […]
02.06.2025
WASHINGTON, Jan 23, 2025 – Overall consumer spending on video games in the United States totaled $58.7 billion in 2024 according to data released by the Entertainment Software Association, Circana and Sensor Tower.
01.23.2025
As President and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, it is my privilege to lead the organization that serves as the voice and advocate for the U.S video game industry.
06.06.2024
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03.27.2025
The ESA offers its comments and perspectives on the performance consumers need to access advanced telecommunications capability.
10.07.2017
Pokémon Go blends a fun smartphone game with real-life, outdoor physical activity. Initial reports suggest it is a successful population level strategy to increase physical activity levels.
08.16.2017
This study explores how students experience interdisciplinary learning--specifically game jams, hackathons, and similar group game creation events. These events provide young people with exciting opportunities, foster innovation, and strengthen teamwork skills--all of which are essential to working in industry.
07.20.2017
Available evidence about virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) reveals that virtual reality (VR) is an effective treatment for phobias. VR use will be significantly expanded in routine clinical practice in the future.
06.23.2017
This study found that Kinect-based VR intervention was effective at improving dynamic balance in individuals with chronic severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The potential therapeutic applications of commercial VR games are very promising.
05.31.2017
The conclusion requested by the plaintiffs—that a party need not prove any actual damage for alleged minor procedural violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”)—would impose severe penalties for insignificant defects in notice and consent that would substantially chill innovation with respect to certain personalization features preferred and enjoyed by a vast number of users.
05.24.2017
This study found that active video games (AVG) were effective at increasing energy expenditure and activity levels in children and adolescents with obesity. Active video games can be a therapeutic tool to improve cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, and body awareness.
05.18.2017
The results of this study found that web-based gaming intervention was successful at increasing physical activity in overweight workers. Such interventions have the potential to help combat the obesity epidemic.
05.18.2017
This study found video game therapy (VGT) to be a viable treatment option for patients struggling with balance and attentive disorders following chronic traumatic brain injury. Video game therapy's reward-learning approach was proven more effective than traditional balance platform therapy (BPT) at significantly improving these areas.
05.10.2017
ESA surveys more than 4,000 American households and the heads of and most frequent gamers within each household about their video game playing habits and attitudes, resulting in these survey results for 2017.
05.05.2017
This study found mobile learning games (MLG) to be as effective as traditional textbook learning at transferring factual knowledge. In light of their popularity, mobile learning games have unquestionable potential as a learning method.
04.21.2017
This study explores ways to measure implicit learning through Game-Based Learning Assessments (GBLA). GBLA has promising applications in adaptive games and in-class, data-driven formative assessments.
04.14.2017
