EA donates SimCity to child laptop initiative

How cool is this? Electronic Arts is going to put a copy of the original SimCity game on every machine in the “One Laptop Per Child” (OLPC) program. In case you haven’t been following, 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. When it came out in 1989, SimCity gave rise to an entire genre of simulation games… game that when done right, can teach players all kinds of things while developing decision-making skills.