Games and Their Overlooked Potential: Facilitating Learning Using Entertainment Games

This paper proposes and discusses the opportunities and possibilities of using entertainment games for delivering educational contents and raise awareness, socially and individually. It also discusses an example of the incidents where high end entertainment games have had a notable educational effect on the general public, explains the reason behind said effect, the benefits of using entertainment games rather than focusing on educational games. Lastly this paper explains the need of reconsidering utilizing both the entertainment and educational games markets and expertise.