College degree in computer games aims to console techno teenagers

TEENAGERS, are you fed up with hearing that you’re wasting your time on “that computer”? Tired of being asked how “all those music gadgets are going to get you a job”?

Here’s a new weapon for the fightback — a degree course, the mention of which should be enough to quieten (and baffle) those pesky parents.

Luddites may mourn the fate of the PlayStation generation, but there will be much to stimulate those of a techie bent at the new BSc (Hons) in Entertainment Systems at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT).