____/ Mark Kent on Friday 09 November 2007 18:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> EA Donates SimCity To One Laptop Per Child
>>
>> ,----[ Quote
>>| OLPC will begin distributing laptops in countries such as Uruguay, Peru,
>>| Mexico, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Haiti, Cambodia and India by the end of 2007. EA
>>| adds that SimCity is already being used in more than 10,000 classrooms as
>>| an educational tool, and that it is part of the annual Future City
>>| Competition, a contest that still runs in seventh and eighth grade
>>| classrooms today.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16162
>>
>
> I suppose that EA need to get simcity out there, otherwise people would
> use one of the many free alternatives. Lincity is one, although it's
> old, it runs on most machines.
It's mainly a PR move, but the children seem to be winning. This isn't a case
of trying to control the minds of the children (as opposed to some other
scenario you're aware of).
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