Thursday, November 8th 2007
Electronic Arts Donates SimCity to OLPC Project
Electronic Arts will be giving a lot of disenfranchised children the gift of educational gaming this holiday season. The original SimCity, a game that simulates the construction of a city, will be pre-installed on all versions of the OLPC, at no additional cost to either OLPC or the customer. The request for SimCity came from OLPC itself, and the 1989 version of the classic game will find a way to such countries as Cambodia, Libya, Nigeria (which ordered over a million OLPC laptops), Pakistan, and Peru. This is the first time a major company has "gifted a game to the world" like this, especially a game that has earned 24 awards in the past.
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10 Comments on Electronic Arts Donates SimCity to OLPC Project
but how is it goin to run, OLPC comers with WINE?
"Hey, lets teach kids of the third world how to develop their countries"
..Its official, I'm going to hell.
Would be banned most likely.
Sorry to sound blunt but EA are just a bunch of penny trollops.
Is that not the whole point of OLPC?