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This Is How South Korean Children Battle Game Addiction
It looks like torture, and for children In South Korea that are used to playing video games non-stop, ruining their grades in the process it might be. This is where parents send their children to learn a little self-control. You’d never see these sorts of images featuring North American children. One glance at the pained…
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Heroic Company Of Heroes Dev Lives On In His Daughter
In September Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood was killed in a car crash. His pregnant wife Erin survived. NBC’s Today talks with the widow about how she’s keeping Brian’s memory alive for her newborn daughter. Brian Wood lost his life in September of 2010, but through his actions a new life was…
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The Uncanny X-Men At The Mercy Of One Of Games Journalism’s Greats
Kieron Gillen was one of the most profound and prolific video game journalists working in the industry. Some would even say he invented games journalism. Now the future of Marvel’s Uncanny X-men is in his hands. Kieron Gillen has worked with just about everyone in the video game business. He’s written for PC Gamer UK,…
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Kinect Hacked To Perform Surgery
We’ve seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s device to guide the actions of surgical robots. Scientists and engineers have been working for years to integrate gaming technology into the human-controlled robots that…
By Mike Fahey
