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Screen and green: a survey of environmentally themed video games. (Consumer News).

Publication: E
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03
Format: Online - approximately 1239 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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For computer nerds, the most satisfying twist of the last five years is the emergence of video games as a major market force. If you don't know a confessed video game player, and if the very thought of video games makes you break out in hives, then listen to this: Video game sales are to box...

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...beginning eclipse Hollywood office receipts. In 2002, the games brought in $10.3 billion, beating the movies by almost $1 billion. About 60 percent of Americans (average age, 28) are playing video or computer games, and two fifths of them are women.

Most of the software involves pitched battles between good and bad guys, or races to nowhere, but there is an occasional game with a green theme.

Environmental Games for Kids, 4 to 10

Children leave a poorly designed game with no sense of what they were supposed to learn. The best games combine focused teaching with a spoonful of fun--otherwise they'll be forgotten quicker than a history lesson on Memorial Day.

Several educational websites, including the Discovery Channel online and the Superkids website, rate educational software. Syndicated columnist...

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