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CNN Takes On The Child Gaming Addiction Study
Early this morning we reported on a new study that claims one in ten children are engaged in pathological gaming, prone to serious mental health issues. How does CNN handle the study? Surprisingly well, if you ask me. They manage to mention that the 3,000 children involved in the study were from Singapore, for instance,…
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The Nintendo Download: Punching Animals And Toasting Sandwiches
This week’s Nintendo Download features a game called Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, and a DSiWare game that lets you punch anthropomorphic animals in the face. What more could you people possibly want? It gets better! In Stickmen Studios’ Doc Clock for WiiWare, the titular doctor travels through time, building inventions out of…
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Nintendo Download Gallery
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time Publisher: Stickmen Studios Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief Price: 1,000 Wii Points Description: Have you fallen off a cliff? Are you burning in lava? Did your latest invention just get crushed by a frozen polar bear? Avoid these misfortunes with Doc Clock’s amazing Time…
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The Two Latest Marvel VS. Capcom Characters Take You To Task
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s release is less than a month away, and Capcom keeps marching out the new combatants. Today we get our first look at Street Fighter’s Akuma and a new Marvel character that knows all of your moves. First up is Akuma, the younger brother of Gouken, the sensei of Street Fighter’s Ken…
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Watch Me Unbox Batman And The Game He Comes With
After four days of impassable, ice-covered roads the mail finally made it through, and the Batman statue Sony Online Entertainment sent has arrived. Can you believe it came with DC Universe Online packed inside? At least it arrived before the weekend, right? I was certain the roads around my neighborhood wouldn’t be clear until Monday…
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Lovers’ Quarrel Ends With A Face Full Of Wii
An Oregon couple discovered an unexpected benefit of being a Wii gamer earlier this week: When your drunken girlfriend hurls the console in your face, it does less damage than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. According to her boyfriend, 31-year-old Rebecca Varina Sloskowski was intoxicated on the evening of January 10, so he left…
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This Xbox Indie Combines Rhythm And Role-Playing
Puzzle Quest taught us how to cast spells by matching brightly colored gems. Iridium Studios’ Xbox Live Indie game Sequence will teach us how to wield the awesome power of dance. Due out in March in Xbox Live’s indie games section, Sequence combines the rhythm action of Dance Dance Revolution with the magic and combat…
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Scientists Can Predict Your Gaming Skills By Scanning Your Head
Do you suck at StarCraft II? Do the intricate combo moves of Street Fighter escape you? Maybe you need an MRI. Researchers have found a method for scanning the brain that could predict how well you play video games. Some of us are just better gamers than other. Mind you I’m not putting myself in…
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Is Gamer A Dirty Word?
In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter EcksJay22 explores the negative connotations video game enthusiasts give to the word most often used to describe them. I hate the word “gamer.” I really got to thinking about that term, as opposed to parallel ones I could come up with like, say, movie buff. The difference seems to…
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What If Pokémon Featured Real Animals And Tons Of Profanity
The world of Pokémon is bright, colorful, and filled with joy and wonder, but what if we replaced those colorful pocket monsters with real animals, and the kind-spirited characters with foul-mouthed Brits? I think it would go something like this. Much of the ground covered by this short has been covered before. It is ridiculous…
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One Does Not Simply Tunnel Into GameStop
One does not tunnel into GameStop, unless of course they plan on robbing the place blind. Then they just need to prepare to be charged with felony burglary, just like Steven Paul Archer of Chuckey, Tennessee. Archer was arrested by police yesterday for allegedly breaking into an empty store adjacent to a GameStop in Greeneville,…
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This LittleBigPlanet 2 Ad Takes The Hype Too Far
Sony’s sexy spokesmodel Kevin Butler makes a fatal mistake in this new TV spot for LittleBigPlanet 2. I’m sorry, Mr. Butler, but nothing is better than bacon-wrapped cupcakes. “You don’t finish LittleBigPlanet 2.” That’s a valid statement. The tools Media Molecule has packed into the second installment of the series should insure that we’ll be…
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Where Do Star Wars: The Old Republic Starships Come From?
While the starships players will inhabit in the massively multiplayer Star Wars: The Old Republic may look unfamiliar, the initial reference for those vessels is a vehicle Star Wars gamers are intimately familiar with. Star Wars: The Old Republic is an extension of the acclaimed Knights of the Old Republic role-playing game franchise BioWare introduced…
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Biotechnology Games Let You Play With Living Creatures
Video game developers constantly strive to create the most lifelike games imaginable. Stanford physicist Ingmar Riedel-Kruse took a shortcut, and simply put living creatures in his games. Gaming meets biotechnology in biotic games. Simple single-celled organisms – paramecium, in this case – wiggle their cilium about a small fluid chamber. A camera transmits images from…
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Who’s That Pokémon, And Why Is She Taking Off Her Clothes?
From the burlesque troop that brought us Metroid’s Samus Aran stripped down to her skivvies comes the Anime Babes show, in which Pikachu jumps on stage and ruins childhood memories forever. Much NSFW-ness ensues. The Devil’s Playground burlesque troop continues to delight, astound, and disturb geeks everywhere with their ongoing to tribute to everything we…
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Making Bomb-Filled Video Game Maps Of Your School Is A Bad Idea
Just because video games give you the tools to recreate your school as a battlefield doesn’t mean you should use them. This morning five Louisville, Kentucky, middle school students learned this lesson the hard way. The five Stuart Middle School students will be disciplined and could face felony charges after a teacher discovered a map…
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Brain Making Too Much Noise? Reboot It
As many as 23 million adults in the United States suffer from tinnitus – a ringing sound in the ears that won’t go away. Scientists may have found a way to ease the currently cure-less affliction by rebooting the brain. Tinnitus is more common than you think. One in ten seniors and 40 percent of…
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