Games Better Than Books?

cellullama writes "Some of the leading video-game researchers are saying that games are better for teaching than textbooks. Three University of Wisconsin professors just said schools and corporate trainers should learn something from Halo 2 and Half-life. My workplace is already doing this (but don't tell my boss.)"

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[AtariAmarok]

"Some of the leading video-game researchers are saying that games are better for teaching than textbooks"

Is there a corresponding team of book researchers saying that books are better for teaching than videogames? I'd tend to side with them.