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After Wii’s Success Nintendo Woos Us Again

In the old days (just last week), before Nintendo’s new portable game console, the DSi, was available, portable game consoles were for kids with good eyesight, fast reflexes, and too much time on their...

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Maybe Growing Up to Be a Game Designer Isn’t Such a Bad Idea?

Now that they’ve seen game developers turn into rock stars (and get paid like them too) parents are much more likely to take gaming as a serious career path. Game development is a part of many colleges...

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Leapfrog Gives Leaping an Infrastructure

Have you tried shopping for educational toys  for young kids lately? It’s a jungle out there.  If you’re looking to help them practice  reading, math, critical thinking, color matching  … whatever,...

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Summer’s New Digital Toys

It’s show time for the digital toy business. Time to trot out previews of the summer’s releases.  This season offerings has a few recurrent themes. First is low price. Almost all of the manufacturers...

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It’s Summertime: Tech Things to Do (or Not) With the Kids

Whoever designed the three-month summer vacation must have received kickbacks from the electronics industry. Even the most well intentioned moms and dads need a break from lemonade stands, swim...

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And Games to Avoid

Nothing wrong with a mindless game every now and then, but some games are more mindless than others. I’d have your kids steer clear of these. One because it’s grossly sophmoric, two because it was a...

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CES 2010: This Year’s Crystal Ball Is Made of Glass

With hundreds of new product launches and an annual industry reunion, CES brings out the fortune-teller (oops, I mean analyst) in all of us. The economy has forced companies to tone down big...

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Look Ma! No Controller: Microsoft’s Natal Genius

Natal uses "you" as an input device. You’ve probably heard about Project Natal by now. It’s Microsoft’s “secret” project that lets you use your body as the input device for the Xbox Live. No...

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Two New Games For Young Fliers

Flight Simulator the Microsoft game thats ultrarealistic controls and navigation path gave many armchair pilots a chance to take control of the wheel.  Now the kids can get into the act with two games...

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3D Versus Body Motion: What Matters Most for Next Gen Gamers?

Accoding to NPD, a research firm, families are using video games big time. After sports games and action games (each holding approximately 20% of the market), family games represent 12%, the next...

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After Wii’s Success Nintendo Woos Us Again

In the old days (just last week), before Nintendo’s new portable game console, the DSi, was available, portable game consoles were for kids with good eyesight, fast reflexes, and too much time on their...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Maybe Growing Up to Be a Game Designer Isn’t Such a Bad Idea?

Now that they’ve seen game developers turn into rock stars (and get paid like them too) parents are much more likely to take gaming as a serious career path. Game development is a part of many colleges...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Leapfrog Gives Leaping an Infrastructure

Have you tried shopping for educational toys  for young kids lately? It’s a jungle out there.  If you’re looking to help them practice  reading, math, critical thinking, color matching  … whatever,...

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Clik here to view.

Summer’s New Digital Toys

It’s show time for the digital toy business. Time to trot out previews of the summerhttp://robinraskin.com/blog/2009/06/28/summer%e2%80%99s-new-digital-toys/’s releases.  This season offerings has a...

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It’s Summertime: Tech Things to Do (or Not) With the Kids

Whoever designed the three-month summer vacation must have received kickbacks from the electronics industry. Even the most well intentioned moms and dads need a break from lemonade stands, swim...

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And Games to Avoid

Nothing wrong with a mindless game every now and then, but some games are more mindless than others. I’d have your kids steer clear of these. One because it’s grossly sophmoric, two because it was a...

View Article

CES 2010: This Year’s Crystal Ball Is Made of Glass

With hundreds of new product launches and an annual industry reunion, CES brings out the fortune-teller (oops, I mean analyst) in all of us. The economy has forced companies to tone down big...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Look Ma! No Controller: Microsoft’s Natal Genius

Natal uses "you" as an input device. You’ve probably heard about Project Natal by now. It’s Microsoft’s “secret” project that lets you use your body as the input device for the Xbox Live. No...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Two New Games For Young Fliers

Flight Simulator the Microsoft game thats ultrarealistic controls and navigation path gave many armchair pilots a chance to take control of the wheel.  Now the kids can get into the act with two games...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

3D Versus Body Motion: What Matters Most for Next Gen Gamers?

Accoding to NPD, a research firm, families are using video games big time. After sports games and action games (each holding approximately 20% of the market), family games represent 12%, the next...

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