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Video games evolve as learning tools
From teaching students about Baroque music to skewering the fast-food industry and to a well-timed look at an epidemic crisis, video games have grown up.
The medium that has been blamed for everything from obesity to school violence has evolved, those in the field say, and as suspicion evaporates, games are increasingly seen as an ideal venue for education and editorializing.
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