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New Online Video Game Teaches Students Chinese
A professor at Michigan State University has created a free online video game to help students learn Chinese.The multi-player role-playing game, Zon/New Chengo, allows users to choose Mandarin phrases to converse with other characters in the game about exchanging money, buying breakfast, and other activities visitors to China would experience. — Chronicle of Higher Education

NASA: Developers should pay for online game
NASA wants to create a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game but doesn’t want to pay for it. The space agency wants a game-making studio to develop the game, which would be used to teach students about technical and scientific work. However, that company would most likely have to sign a nonreimbursable Space Act Agreement, meaning that there would be no funds exchanged between the space agency and the developer. — FCW.com, VA