General: Not So MMO But Very Cool – Civilization V Heading to School

Take-Two Interactive, 2K and Firaxis have announced a deal with GlassLab, a non-profit company that seeks to bring “high-impact games to make learning visible, to bring Sid Meier’s Civilization V to high schools in North America beginning in 2017. Retagged “CivilizationEDU’, the history-inspired RTS will give students a chance to use critical thinking skills to recreate historical events as well as assess the impact of decisions on social, economic and geopolitical segments of societies.