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  • This clever game teaches kids about cancer and its treatments by putting the information inside six engaging games.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2013)
  • With minimal physical character detail, this game is able to weave a deep and meaningful tale about friendship.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Windows
    (Game, 2013)
  • The game promotes exploration, discovery, and imagination in a colorful and cartoonish world that feels like the world's biggest LEGO collection come to life.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
    (Game, 2013)
  • For the 3DS, a nifty set of puzzles plus a puzzle-creation area.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
    (Game, 2012)
  • Everyone's favorite plumber is back in a Wii U game that's playable with up to four other friends, as the gang once again rescues Princess Peach.

     
    Learning
    2
    Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
    (Game, 2012)
  • This party game has hilarious mini-games that will get you laughing, cooperating, and thinking.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Nintendo Wii U
    (Game, 2012)
  • A fantastic mystery mixed with more than 100 brainteasers makes for an armchair sleuth's dream.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
    (Game, 2012)
  • Scan your Giant figurine into the game for a stomping good time that is sprinkled with humor and good storytelling.

     
    Learning
    2
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • Kids jump into the TV show to learn about animals in this new way of interacting with a Nat Geo show.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • With five different princess adventures and great help built in, this is a perfect game to teach young girls how to play video games.

     
    Learning
    2
    Platforms: Mac, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii, Windows
    (Game, 2012)
  • Kids can play a wildly creative platformer and then learn how to make their own games.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: PlayStation Vita
    (Game, 2012)
  • This Mario doubles the fun by letting two players explore the whole game together in a cooperative way.

     
    Learning
    2
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
    (Game, 2012)
  • In this Angry Birds-type game, kids move their bodies to direct projectiles to hit goblin-infested castles.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • Inventive puzzles about changing physics provide delightful brainteasers.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • Super fun superhero world brought to life with LEGO bricks.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Windows, Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • This fantastic expansion to the top-rated Civilization V game adds religion into the historic mix.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2012)
  • Kids will shake, jump, and tilt while playing games that teach them about music.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii
    (Game, 2012)
  • Learn about ancient Egypt as you solve a mystery set in a lost tomb.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2012)
  • The ecosystem of a tree serves as the background for this highly imaginative world in which clicking reveals wondrous surprises.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2012)
  • FEZ

    Dimension-shifting puzzles make for unique gameplay without any violence.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Xbox 360
    (Game, 2012)
  • Carmen Sandiego engages kids to use math to solve a mystery in this downloadable Wii game.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Nintendo Wii
    (Game, 2012)
  • Pre-Civil War history comes alive as players step into the shoes of an enslaved teen on her journey to freedom.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2012)
  • This collection of 3-D puzzles is surprisingly entertaining as well as intellectually challenging.

     
    Learning
    3
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
    (Game, 2011)
  • This fun and creative style game for girls takes fashion beyond its superficial surface.

     
    Learning
    4
    Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
    (Game, 2011)
  • Dragons, princesses, and math make this game a hoot to play.

     
    Learning
    5
    Platforms: Mac, Windows
    (Game, 2011)