The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund, which has created quite a stir at the institution. Its supporters see it as a place to study "Western civilization and free market economics," while some faculty have accused the project of imposing ideology on courses and research.

No matter, the case, here's something interesting: in Inside Higher Ed's September report on the center mentions the possibility that it will pursue educational videogames as a part of its charge:

In my book Persuasive Games, I noted that videogames had not yet been made partisan, in the way that talk radio or documentary film has, for example. I think that's still true... save for the US Army, most government and institutional videogames are really quite liberal in their approach. Perhaps the balance is poised to shift. Then again, perhaps it's just talk.

(thanks to Alessandro Braidotti)