Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project

[tlrobinson]

I just donated/ordered my OLPC! http://www.laptopgiving.org/

I loved Sim City! I wonder though, how useful is a game that's centered around American type cities to kids in developing countries?

[rms]

This is a straight PR move on EAs part. I haven't seen anyone from OLPC actually say that Sim City is included. I suspect it is accessible to OLPC children the same way it is accessible free to us -- http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php, because I sincerely doubt that OLPC would install non-free software on every laptop they distribute.

[euccastro]

I wish they did the same for M.U.L.E. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

[jadams]

Nice.

Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.

[hhm]

Did you notice SimCity is going to go open source too? I'm not sure it was mentioned in this piece of news...