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This Week in Family Gaming: July 24, 2015
Good morning Pixelkiners! College athletes have settled a lawsuit with Electronic Arts after the athletes weren’t compensated for appearing in EA’s NCAA game series. I’m not sure in what world...Read More
[Podcast] Gaming With the Moms #15: What Is the Mother of All Apps?
Check Out Technology Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Gaming With The Moms on BlogTalkRadio This week it’s all the video game news and rumors with gaming moms Nicole Tanner...Read More
Madden NFL 16 Hopes to Bring Back Lost Fans
Polygon’s Samit Sarkar spoke with Madden’s creative director, Rex Dickson, about Madden NFL 16 at a recent demo. There’s been a divide in NFL games fans since ESPN NFL 2K5 over...Read More
Forza Motorsport 6 Gets 41 New Cars and a New Track
Forza Motorsport 6 is getting a brand new track and a bunch of new cars—41 new cars, to be specific. Read More
Rise of the Tomb Raider Will Come to PS4…Eventually
Rise of the Tomb Raider was initially Xbox-exclusive, but today Square Enix announced that the Tomb Raider sequel will come to PlayStation 4 in “holiday season, 2016.” That’s still a...Read More
Pro Gamers to Get Tested for Drug Use
The Electronic Sports League will begin drug testing its competitors. This news comes after a professional Counter Strike: Global Offensive player, Kory “Semphis” Friesen revealed that he and some of his...Read More
Life Is Strange Episode 4 Coming July 28
Life is Strange, the episodic game about a girl with time-travel powers, is getting a new episode next week. (Of course, it’s really about a lot more than that.)Read More
Ana’s Apps: Monkey MathSchool Sunshine
Often, apps that are designed to be purely educational aren’t very fun. I initially wrote off these apps as bad candidates for this series. However, as I’ve watched my daughter play,...Read More
New Hearthstone Expansion Launching Next Month
Blizzard Entertainment announced a massive Hearthstone expansion today. Hearthstone is the immensely popular free-to-play card-battling game on PC and iOS devices. The expansion, called The Grand Tournament, adds new elements...Read More
The Issue: Why Miyamoto Won’t Be President of Nintendo
The Issue is a weekly show where we talk in depth about one topic. Let us know what you think in the comments! Have a topic suggestion? Email it to hello@pixelkin.org. Recently, Nintendo’s fantastic,...Read More
41 Games to Appear At Gamescom
We now have a list of 41 games that are slated to appear at the European gaming conference Gamescom, thanks to IGN. Not all of these will necessarily be in playable condition...Read More
Nintendo Patent Lawsuit Dismissed
Nintendo has won yet another patent lawsuit, this time against Quintal Research Group, a patent-assertion company in Oakland, California. The judge ruled that the eight handheld systems named in the lawsuit—including...Read More
Xbox 360 Disc-Scratching Lawsuit Set to Move Forward
If you ever owned an Xbox 360, you might want to take note—due to a disc-scratching manufacturing defect, Microsoft is in hot water with the courts.Read More
Minecraft Movie Has a Director
The Minecraft movie has found a director, and it’s Rob McElhenney, creator and star of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Mojang announced McElhenney’s role in a short blog post, but didn’t...Read More