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Battle Giant Dinosaur Robots — And Diabetes

3:00AM Mike Fahey | The Magi and The Sleeping Star, the heroic Oz must free his relatives from gigantic dinosaur robots, but if he doesn’t correctly manage his type-1 diabetes, his magic will fail him. More »
Culture

Katamari Creator’s Playground Moving Forward

8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Several years back, Keita Takahashi, the game designer behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, mentioned he wanted to design playgrounds. He’s been commissioned to do so, and the ball is now starting to get rolling, so to speak. More »
Culture

10-Year-Old’s Video Game Reporting Featured On Today Show

9:00AM Stephen Totilo | Some video game reporting can be conducted from a swing set. Here’s fifth-grader Owen Migel who made it into the Today Show’s (US morning TV news program) semi-finals of their Kid Reporter contest. He appeared on the show, along with the following. More »
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Gamer Kid Leads Study Showing Connection To Joint Pain

11:00AM Owen Good | A St. Louis fifth-grader, with help from his father (a rheumatologist) and researchers from New York University, led a study showing kids were more likely to complain of joint pain the more they played video games. More »
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Dante’s Inferno Grants Achievement Points For Baby Killing

5:00AM Mike Fahey | The fact that Dante’s Inferno features an achievement awarded for killing unbaptised babies might sound horrendous, but to be fair they are pretty ugly babies. More »
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Littlest Pet Shop Online Has Cutest Hourglass Ever

12:40AM Mike Fahey | Why spend your evening waiting in an queue to play Aion when you can watch an hourglass spin around in EA’s new MMO, Littlest Pet Shop Online? More »
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Once Upon A Time, There Was A ‘Kill 1000 Kids’ Achievement

12:00PM Owen Good | That will be our story for today, dear readers, how rewarding players for killing 1000 child characters in Fairytale Fights is in the game, as of now, but… yeahhhh… likely won’t be in the final release. More »
Features

Gaming Before Chemo, A Child’s Escape

3:20AM Owen Good | His parents can recite the days from memory. What parent couldn’t, for such watershed trauma in the life of a boy and his family. More »
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Sending Your DSi Pics To Facebook (No Pre-Teens Allowed)

12:40PM Brian Crecente | As of this evening DSi owners in North America and Australia can now directly upload the pictures they took using the portable to their Facebook account, with one caveat. More »
Culture

The Ultimate Setup For Lazy, Bedroom Gaming

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sure, you could play games while in bed, but that’s so hard! You have to, like, lift your head up from the pillow! Ungh. Tiresome. Or you could do what Patti Deni did, and build your kid a ceiling TV. More »