There's a nice article in the Baltimore Sun about Serious Games, specifically focusing on Maryland's many local game studios and their work on games for military training. Registration is required to read the article.

I am encouraged by and highly respectful of the idea of games for training and education. This is one of the major tenet's of the highly valuable Serious Games Project. However, I think we should be careful that we don't allow "seriousness" in games to be synonymous with training, and especially military training.

I've been writing about simulations lately, and I may talk about this in more detail at another time. For now, here's a simple question: Rhetorical speech is serious too. Is there still room for it in "serious games?"