EA Donates "SimCity" to OLPC Foundation
Today Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCity™ — the blockbuster 1989 game credited with giving rise to the city-building game genre—to each computer in the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative. OLPC is a not-for-profit humanitarian effort to design, manufacture and distribute inexpensive laptops with the goal of giving every child in the world access to modern education. By gifting SimCity onto each OLPC laptop, EA is providing users with an entertaining way to engage with computers as well as help develop decision-making skills while honing creativity. This is the first time a major video game publisher has gifted a game to the world.
While I have to applaud this move, it's not a FPS, dang it. And did you know you can play the original online for free anyway? At any rate, this will probably distract the kids, and keep them from surfing for porn, as earlier reports indicated --- we hope.