This is the second in an occasional series of articles profiling interactive-media and video game programs at academic institutions in the United States. The first: Interactive design blooms in NYU hallways. Sitting in a small room on the third floor of the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering on Tuesday, a group of video game industry professionals are cowering as a drummer on the other side of the room is flailing away wildly with a Nintendo Wii controller.

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