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Glupod - A Game About Saving Real Lives

We've seen plenty of flash games and indie games that address the issue of world hunger and the environment, but Ioannis Tsiokos of Athens Greece and Something, Inc. are launching a game that lets you do something about it. Glupod, which launches May 30th worldwide, is a casual online game where players choose a birdlike creature called a glupod, choose a child or cause to sponsor, and then compete against players from around the world for a currency called glucs, which can be recycled into real money and support for your sponsored cause. It sounds sort of like NeoPets, only with a purpose.
"A Glupod gamer has a real purpose and a human mission," says Ioannis, managing director and co-founder of Something Inc. "Glupod is more than a game. It's a simple, fun way to do good that anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can participate in."
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11:20 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Mike Fahey
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Latest by n/a: Two thumbs up! I like it. more »

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Video Games Help Hospitalized Children

Over 1,000 hospitals worldwide are using Nintendo video game Fun Centers to help children recover from illness and surgical procedures. Researchers have conducted studies over the past decade that find that video games help patients focus on something other than their illness in an environment that only seems to punctuate it.
Jeffrey Gold, program psychologist for the pediatric pain management clinic at USC-affiliated Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, was on the team that did the university's virtual reality pain study and continues to research the subject. Hospitalized children are in a foreign environment with none of the familiar comforts of home, he said. "There is no normalcy. When you roll in a video game, there is some normalcy"

I can completely understand what he means, having been through several surgeries in my life. Nothing is worse than sitting in a hospital. Everything reminds you that you aren't well. The people, the decor, the smell. Being able to lose yourself in another world is a welcome distraction indeed. Michael Fahey More »

2:42 PM on Fri Dec 15 2006
By Mike Fahey
405 views, 15 comments

Latest by Quazie: Not gonna lie, the first time I read the title of this post i saw 'video games help hospitalize children, very glad its the other way around. more »