Now, get ready to check up your son’s monthly gaming report cards. Indiagames have launched an ‘edutainment’ gaming package for the pre-teens. The company has also joined hands with Airtel who have agreed to cater the service and it will cost a subscriber just Rs 99 a month, which will be added up in their Airtel Broadband bill.

“The package has been designed keeping in mind the general social perception about gaming in India. The games will have a complete parental control. They will be able to decide the duration and timings of games,” says Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames. As already stated, Indiagames also plans to report the parents about their children’s gaming skills and how much the games actually helped in developing their mental skill sets.

Such an idea reminds me of the little LEGO games that we used to play in the primary. It seems, gradually, video games are going to replace the LEGO toys that kids normally have been playing with and the ones that were widely believed to improve a child’s mathematical and analytical skills.

According to Sande Chen & David Michael’s book “Serious Games: Games that educate, train and inform“, video games have been used in daily lives for a variety of useful purposes like:

• using video games to distract patients during painful medical procedures
• using simulations to improve rehabilitation.
• using virtual environments to improve motor skills.
• using video games for therapeutic interventions.

So, next time your kid asks for that video game on the store shelf, don’t just turn your back thinking it’s just a “game”! Also if you are all grown up and are into serious gaming. Then do check out our Gaming review blog www.WATGame.com

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