Those forward thinking Russians

According to a rather bizzarre story from pravda about tentative links between a spate of suicides in a small town and the Final Fantasy games, Russia has officially classified computer games as sport. Thats right, those crazy russians have decided

According to a rather bizzarre story from pravda about tentative links between a spate of suicides in a small town and the Final Fantasy games, Russia has officially classified computer games as sport. Thats right, those crazy russians have decided that the days of vaulting horses are coming to an end. The government has taken an extra step and decided to include computer gaming in the school curriculum.

We can picture the classes now, as eager teenagers line up to take part in the morning's rocket jumping practice, or practising their circle strafing techniques during lunchtime.

Maybe this does mean that the embryonic world of professional gaming will start to resemble the golden days of eastern european gymnastics. Maybe the government will actually find a use for the pharmocopia of hallucinogens that were developed to create the perfect soldiers. One wonders how close we are to having to drug test before major gaming tournaments?

Excited? Check out the broken english of the original Pravda story.