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www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2010/08/portal-booklist.html

Portal game now on the required reading list for college freshmen
By Michael Abbott
The Brainy Gamer
 
 
 
This year, for the first time, a video game will appear on the syllabus of a course required for all students at Wabash College, where I teach. For me - and for a traditional liberal arts college founded in 1832 - this is a big deal. 
Alongside Gilgamesh, Aristotle's Politics, John Donne's poetry, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the Tao Te Ching, freshmen at Wabash will also encounter a video game called Portal. If you're curious to know how it happened, read on.
 
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