Hungry Man Gamer Grub (which we’ve dubbed ‘Hungry Gamer’) is a line of World of Warcraft themed frozen dinners. It seems this is yet another company jumping on the bandwagon of catering to the gaming demographic, but it would be unfair of us to write this product off from the start. To be completely fair to them, neither the box art nor the documentation that came with our package made any cracks about gamers as these things usually do. Essentially, it just seems like Hungry Man is trying something new. Gaming is ‘in’ now, you know! After the WoW line, I’d bet we’ll see Halo Hungry Man or Noby Noby Boy Hungry Man. Well, maybe not that second one.

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Can massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft produce better citizens?

That’s the provocative conclusion drawn by University of Wisconsin-Madison education professor Constance Steinkuehler, who has been intensely studying MMOGs and those who play them — including herself — for several years.

On Tuesday night, she laid out the evidence in a presentation called "Learning and Virtual Worlds: The Education Benefits of Digital Technologies" at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Hall. The free event was part of the series of monthly Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Evenings.

With about 12 million people playing World of Warcraft alone, MMOGs have become a new "third place" like "Cheers," where everyone knows your name and all that, Steinkuehler said.