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| 5:00PM 12/01/2009
The art of the deal isn't something students usually study in elementary school, and neither are the principles of real estate, the rough and tumble rules of the stock market or best practices for starting a business.
However, there are games for kids that do exactly that. The best part? The...
| 2:00PM 11/10/2009
Should Activision Blizzard (ATVI) have delayed the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, perhaps the most eagerly anticipated video game of the year, while the memories of the massacre at Fort Hood are still fresh?
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, allegedly shot 13 people at the...
| 7:00PM 11/09/2009
Recently nearly $2 million in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation were awarded to nine research teams working on strengthening the evidence that playing games - video games that is - is good for your health.
The awards, which come from the Foundation's Health Games Research national...
| 9:00AM 9/12/2009
This week Toys R Us announced that all of its locations will start purchasing used video games for more than 25 current and retro systems. Shoppers can visit the service desk at any Toys R Us store to find out what how much they can get for their used games. Credit will be issued in the form of a...
| 9:00AM 6/30/2009
Parents and gamers coming of age may be in for a break later this year, as it is rumored that both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 will have price cuts. Technology site Ars Technica claims that both Sony and Microsoft will drop their prices in order to better compete with the Nintendo Wii, later...
| 8:00AM 12/10/2008
Playing video games used to be a fun excuse for sitting on the couch, relaxing and doing much of nothing. Then came along the Nintendo Wii, and its healthy counterpart, the Wii Fit, and video games were sedentary no more.
Losing fat, or lowering your body mass index (BMI) while exercising on the...
| 6:30PM 11/24/2008
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently released a study regarding the power usage of consoles. During the course of the study it found that gamers who leave their consoles powered on all the time spend more than $100 a year to leave their game console idle. At first glance this...