GlassLab's anti-pollution game.
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GlassLab launches educational version of SimCity for fighting pollution

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SimCity is coming to the classroom.

The nonprofit GlassLab has released its first educational game based on Electronic Arts‘ SimCity city simulator, the genre-defining title that Will Wright first launched in 1989 and has become one of the biggest names in video games. The SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge! is aimed at teaching children about growing cities while managing environmental impact at the same time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.