In the beginning, there was pong invented by scientist working on the manhattan project, then there was the era of arcade games and now we have the era of the consoles and computer games (lets call this video games for simplicity). So it came to pass that man saw in video games the future of education and the means to educate a new generation of learners....but is that so? Are games the ideal medium for learning? Is it for all learners? What kinds of learning is possible in games? (genres must be considered) What content is best learned in games? Is it really the future of learning? This latter questions can safely be answered at this moment with a NO because not everyone likes games and and the initial questions about games needs to be research and more assessment done on games for learning. The above questions needs to be addressed, rather, than only making clams about what games can and can't do...lets assess games and design better games.