Games for Change

Would you go online to buy a virtual daikon radish? 

If your answer to this question is "Yes," then you're in good company; nearly 500,000 people spent between $5 and $40 each to buy limited edition daikon radish crops last year on internet gaming company Zynga's popular "FarmVille" franchise. 

Of course, as in all things in life (well, almost all things...Kim Kardashian and Jersey Shore are exceptions...but I digress), proper context makes even the most seemingly bizarre and odd concepts understandable. 

Concern about the violence of commercial video games is well founded, but that doesn't mean we need to condemn all video games.  In fact, what if we could use video games to promote peace?