Both NASA and ESA are looking at online games as one tool to educate the next generation about space and space exploration. Both space agencies understand the games must be entertaining above all else in order to attract players and keep players coming back, but they are also working with game developers to make the games as realistic as possible.
That insistence on realism is having a side benefit, as well. Engineers working on actual projects for the future are using the games as a kind of simulation, testing ideas that might someday become reality on another world.
NASA's game, which challenges players to construct and operate a Moonbase, begins July 6.
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