This year, one of the recipients of the award is Luke, a 12-year-old boy from Montreal who built a video game about depression to help cope with the loss of his father to suicide. Comments Sign up ...

A special computer game is as effective for treating adolescent depression as one-on-one counselling with trained clinicians, Australian researchers report in the British Medical Journal.

It uses a 3D animated game environment and a custom-made soundtrack to engage young people and teach them skills to manage symptoms of depression, in a self-directed learning format.

Tucked away in the immensely popular online game Roblox, you’ll find heartbreaking messages like this from children across the globe, who have come to visit one of the site’s specially created ...

Kailene Raygoca says for her, Roblox is more than just a game. Braxton had a bone infection which required painful treatments and often left him in tears. "Basically to help him through it, we ...