New York Times on academic game design teaching

There's an article today on the NYTimes (currency-free registration required but not data-free) about US programs teaching game design and development. It's amazing how fast mainstream press coverage of videogames has taken off during the last 2 years. Well, don't pay too much attention to me, I am getting old. Btw, I am in Paris, yesterday I visited Ubisoft (Powerful Robot wanted to donate a pair of prosthetic arms and legs for Rayman as part of our charity work). Later during the night, I visited my friend Eric who just got a brand new Xbox with the King Kong game on it. We only played for a short while. I was impressed by the quality of the graphics (man, it's been a while since I booted my Xbox). At least during the first half hour every single event in the game seems scripted, interrupted by actions scenes. It looked really fun, I guess I'll check it out once I complete the Minish Cap and Lost in Blue, the next game on my DS list of games-to-be-played