Eastern Standard: Video Games in the Classroom

WEKU

Published January 2, 2015 at 9:39 PM EST

This week's show is an encore from Sept. 18, 2014.

Microsoft has purchased Mojang, the developer of the popular video game Minecraft for $2.5 Billion. On this week's show, we'll discuss the video game industry and the Commonwealth's first academic program dedicated to video game development at Eastern Kentucky University.

Guests: Dr. George Landon, associate professor in the EKU Department of Computer Science, which offers a bachelor’s degree concentration in interactive multimedia, as well as John Meister and Richie Hoagland, from Lexington-based game development studio, Super Soul.

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