Former Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Mark DeLoura joins us to talk about educational video games and how the industry can succeed.

First, we have to go over the news. Skylanders BattleCast is coming out next year and Simone is really, really... not excited, for once. There's also the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge, which is accepting entries now. Nicole is also really excited about Hearthstone, as usual.

Then we get into the meat of discussing games for education, and how the Xbox Kinect deserved better.

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