Is this Real?
This most likely will be a web/flash game and promotional tool for IBM. Here's another article in addition to the one Mikemcn posted:
http://gizmodo.com/5530030/ibm-cityone-is-simcity-for-the-real-world
Sims like that already exist for certain college courses. My history teacher in high school was trying to get a masters in marketing had a really weird sim where he had to manage companies throughout the world, read pseudo newspaper articles, and micromanage ridiculously. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not. But things exist like that if you're interested.
" This most likely will be a web/flash game and promotional tool for IBM. Here's another article in addition to the one Mikemcn posted:It's not a web/flash game. It's a a proper urban planning teaching tool which is housed in a game engine. There's a whole sponsorship deal tied to this and Universities get access to it at severely reduced cost.
http://gizmodo.com/5530030/ibm-cityone-is-simcity-for-the-real-world "
Here is a link to it's new wiki page, Make it real.
Achievement opportunities galore.
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