This year's E3 convention contained some troubling news for Sony and its Playstation3 when it was announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be dual-released for both PS3 and Xbox360. This is a gut punch to an already ailing system that doesn't need to hear bad news like this.

Video Games Are Not a Waste of Time

I was listening to the radio last night when the host said, “less than 1% of persons under the age of 29 read novels anymore.” She mentioned two other statistics, “only 50% of students know who Adolf Hitler was” and “just 2% know that the American Civil war took place during the second half of the 1800s.” She went on to blame playing “mindless video games” as the culprit to the demise of education.