Serious Games Effects: An Overview

“Games und Gamification” were declared by the “New Media Consortium” as one of the important trends in E-Leanring for the near future. If the NMC's assumptions are correct, we need a discussion on whether Games, especially so-called “Serious Games” indeed help in learning. The paper wants to give an overview on the state-of-the-art of what can be expected by Serious Games, according to the research already done.