Ben S. Decker isn't just playing video games at Harvard, he's studying them. His concentration is "the study of video games from both a technological and humanities perspective," AKA "ludology."

Ludology? 'Mkay.

He'll take a smattering of classes in computer science, economics and psychology at Harvard and cross-enroll at MIT for media studies. Ben adds,

I'm not nearly as hardcore a gamer as some—I'm certainly obsessed with a couple of games, but I have a lot of faith in the medium going forward.

That, and a pretty cool sounding major. Harvard isn't the first to offer ludology as a concentration, but rather, the University of California-Santa Cruz. Go Banana Slugs! Brian Ashcraft

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