In order to earn a belt loop badge, scouts must complete three requirements: Explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games, create a schedule for scouts to do things that ...

Learn to play a new video game that is approved by your parent, guardian, or teacher. Yes, you must create a schedule that includes videogaming. Best. Badge. Ever! Pictured: The actual badge ...

What's next, a badge for watching TV? In a move that could be mistaken for a belated April Fool's joke, the Boy Scouts of America has created of a new award for video game proficiency. Tiger Cubs ...

Forget the hiking and the camping - now Boy Scouts can earn a badge just by sitting around and playing video games. The organization has unveiled its newest merit badge - Game Design, which was ...

To earn the new badge (actually a metal “belt-loop”), Cub Scouts must demonstrate an understanding of the video-game rating system, create a balanced schedule of gaming and schoolwork ...

Apparently, I was born about 30 years too early. Because now, playing video games is no longer a waste of time. It’s apparently a thrifty, brave and reverent activity that is rewarded with a merit ...

The Boy Scouts of America have recognized the importance of games in culture by offering a merit badge in game design for the first time. That’s a plus for the game industry’s mass appeal ...

The merit badge will involve girls planning and designing their own game, as well as learning a bit of code with Gamestar Mechanic—a popular video game design software. About a month ago ...