NYU shut-ins rejoice, as of next fall, playing Halo in your dorm room for hours a day will be creepy research as opposed to just creepy Wild things 2 download.
With the creation of its program for the research, design and development of digital games, NYU will become the first college in the city to offer a video gaming degree. Tara Colton, deputy direct at NY think tank Center for an Urban Future told Crain’s that the program “will do a lot to attract new students to New York and raise the city’s profile as a center for gaming,” helping New York sinks its claws into the $38 billion video game market.
The NYU Game Center in Tisch’s Skirball Center will house the initiative, offering about 70 gaming courses to 10 to 12 students this coming fall. So whip out that controller and let’s kill some aliens as a substitute for summer reading.
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Playing Halo in your dorm room for hours is totally NOT creepy. I hope.
Video games improve eye-hand coordination. Just sayin.
All in moderation though.
70 courses for 10 to 12 students… ok
Yeah that does sound way off, but maybe non-majors can take it for elective credit?
God I used to love the Sims (and SimCity and SimAnt and SimSafari and SimPark and especially Sims 2.0).
Will Wright is a genius. A really weird, sad genius.
Seriously, the original SimCity is amazing. But I can never escape the heavy traffic!
Sim City is the shit. I could never actually build a nice, functioning city, so I satisfied myself with destroying all the nice, computer-made cities with tornadoes, UFO attacks and the occasional volcano.
omg. is this when nyu’s progressiveness jumped the shark? yes?