- At UC Santa Cruz, researchers and students have been developing the future of games since 2006, when the Jack Baskin School of Engineering started the first undergraduate game major in the University of California system.
- A leader in game research, UC Santa Cruz also hosts three graduate programs with an emphasis on games — the professional M.S. in Games and Playable Media, the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A., and the Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Media.