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Cisco is not typically the kind of company you’d think of if anyone asked you to name a gaming firm, but the router company is nothing if not diverse, as we discovered in GDC this week.
RCR spent some time with Jerry Bush, program manager for the Learning@Cisco initiative to find out how Cisco’s learning games are appealing to a much wider audience outside of the company.
Cisco initially started developing games to help partners achieve Cisco Certifications – thought to be among the world’s best IT certification programs.
To help people get to grips with the key concepts they’d need to develop great networks, Bush and his team developed several Cisco learning games and helped create the Learning Games Arcade on the Cisco Learning Network – including Cisco’s Mind Share and Binary games, which have now been accessed over a million times globally.
We talked to Bush about just what Cisco brought to the world of gaming. Take a look:
