Categories: Games and Social Issues

Two very interesting posts to report on how games are finding their way into society.

The first one involves the U.S. army using video games and technology to boost their recruiting efforts. Gamepolitics has the excerpt here, while the full report can be found here.

I am starting to think that the Army is desparate right now in terms of rallying new troops to their cause; with the current state of the Iraq war, and the continuing polls showing that more and more Americans do not deem this war a wise decision.

On a more positive note, a UCF student found that games can be used for educational purposes. The report is here, and it advocates something that I have long supported, which makes the research that went into it that much better.