US Gives Raytheon $10.5M For 'Serious Games' 108
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coondoggie writes "These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The U.S. government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies $10.5 million today to develop what it called 'serious games' that feature an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis."
So... (Score:5, Funny)
They just spent $10.5 million to remake Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
games are also propaganda tools used to promote (Score:4, Funny)
a certain ideology or a certain model of the world that may or may not actually resemble reality.
if the '21st century' wants to abandon the '19th century' notions like, say, empiricism, and the scientific method, (which actually go back hundreds of years BC) then i think the 21st century may be the last century.