Seriously Unreal Games

Since we've decided to go down the route of UT3 for our studio modelling engine, here's a lead on the Unreal Engine's use in serious games:

"Virtual Heroes will integrate the Unreal® Engine 3 into its own Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform for simulation learning and serious games based learning. That combination will enable the company to offer even more scalable, cost effective, best-in-class products and solutions to its growing number of federal systems, healthcare and commercial clients."

Virtual Heroes to Advance Serious Games with Unreal Engine [Virtualheroes.com]

What kinds of games does Oprah play?

Apparently, she plays games to lose weight. I don't watch her show. But I wonder what would happen if you used the mesh-learning model of OLPC to bridge the activities of users in Wii Fit with users in Facebook and WoW.

Wii Fit, an exercise game due next month, is expected to receive more marketing dollars than any game in Nintendo’s history, Mr. Pachter said — and the money will not be spent wooing young men. “Wii Fit is just not aimed at hard-core gamers,” Mr. Pachter said. “It’s definitely aimed at the Oprah crowd. I bet they sell a million units a week for every pound that Oprah says she lost on it.”

New Wii Games Find a Big (but stingy) Audience [New York Times]