Yes! The more people that experience the awesomeness that is LBP the better.

This will probably help the game's legs too. It'll be free advertising for years to come.

Actually he has been working on the Afghan strategy, but deciding what steps to take in Afghanistan should not be rushed into, I'm glad he's taking time to weigh the options, much better than what dubya did, and he's almost certain to win reelection, the GOP leadership is a joke (Huckabee, Palin, Romney, lol he'll crush any of them) and unemployment will be way down by 2012, heck he could win even bigger than in 2008, no the best hope the GOP has is in 2010, of being able to wear down the Dem majority a bit, though even that will depend on whether unemployment starts falling in the summer as many are predicting, and whether GOP runs a bunch of crazy right wingers who will get crushed in the general elections.

^I'm not going to get into a political arguement on a gaming forum, but I LOL @ you.

This is pathetic. Encouraging "girls and minority students" etc bla bla. Typical socialist ideas to believe everything can be fixed by the government.

This won't help weak individuals to get any stronger, because it doesn't work in Sweden so it won't work in America either.

And no future mathematicians or geniuses will ever be spawned by such basic and primitive things such as an edutainment video game that kids can play with in school.

Well, I guess the LBP angle is building stuff, understanding basics of physics, mass, etc.

Which could be covered even better by specific games on the PC that do the same things... and do them better.

And would involve the use of PCs that a lot of libraries already have. 

Hence why it's good the stuff is being given away for free mostly rather then the government paying for it.... since you could make much more efficent use of the money with a PC focus... and it would likely be a lot more effective.

It reminds me of libraries that hole Pokemon card tournaments and the like hoping that after the tournament a couple kids will take out a book.  I see a lot of people just playing the game to have fun and little learning to come from it... vs a game where such aspects are the focus and hard to avoid... yet the game is still fun.

This is perfect. As the two most over-hyped things of 2008, Obama and LBP should have teamed up long ago.

Best first post ever.

Obama was overhyped, LBP deserved it.

Yeah, but I've watched what my nine year old does with LBP - amazing, he'll play at building vehicles for ages, play with different rope strenghs and weights, change the material to see how it affects a rockets thrust and so on.

I agree a PC route would be more academic, and probably more detailed and expansive, but I gather this is about catching the imagination of young kids in a very accessible manner, and LBP is way more suited for that.  Also, a game console takes away the image of it being academic, and gives the idea its fun.

Now, if they're still using LBP to teach them how to build actual buildings, vehicles, etc. as paid adults then I'll panic!