Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business

Part III Games and Employees

The SUV lost control and rolled over, flipping five times before coming to a rest on the side of the highway. Paxton Galvanek quickly stopped his car and ran across the road to see if he could help while his wife called 911. He found two men inside the overturned vehicle. One was only slightly hurt, but the other was bleeding from a severe head wound and had lost two fingers. Unless someone helped the injured man, he was likely to die, and Galvanek had never taken first-aid training. However, he had played America’s Army, a video game that requires you to learn basic medical procedures in a virtual classroom before healing other injured players in the game. Recalling the ways that he had dealt with injuries in the ...