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5 Great Wii U Games for Toddlers
There comes a time in every gaming parent’s life when your young child is no longer content to sit there with an unplugged (or unconnected) controller, happily mashing buttons along with...Read More
How Games and Learning Go Together and How They Don’t
A book about games and learning was released in April, and it’s getting a lot of attention. The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter is by...Read More
Deactivated PS4 Consoles an Issue for Sony
The big gaming console makers (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) have different and sometimes confusing ways of preventing users from breaking the rules when it comes to sharing games. In most cases,...Read More
[Podcast] Gaming With the Moms #8: Pointless Games That Give Us Hats
Check Out Technology Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Gaming With The Moms on BlogTalkRadio Welcome to episode 8 of Gaming With the Moms! Host and Pixelkin Managing Editor Nicole Tanner...Read More
Another Disney Infinity Star Wars Pack on the Way
Another Disney Infinity Star Wars Play Set has been announced. It will be one of three Star Wars Play Sets that will be released for Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition; we covered the...Read More
This Week in Family Gaming: June 5, 2015
Hi Pixelkiners! Welcome to our family gaming show. This year’s North American League of Legends Championships will be held in Madison Square Garden on August 22nd and 23rd! Tickets aren’t...Read More
[Review] Decisions That Matter Illustrates Sexual Harassment in College
Decisions That Matter: An Interactive Experience is an interactive web comic where readers can make decisions about how to respond to situations. The situations in question are centered around sexual harassment....Read More
[Review] Splatoon
Platform: Nintendo Wii U Splatoon is a new kid-friendly adventure and battle game from Nintendo. It has a great sense of humor, an adorable design, and it is a ton of fun. You play...Read More
Steam Refunds Announced for Games Played Less Than 2 Hours
Steam announced that they will be offering refunds for games bought through the Steam digital distribution service.Read More
Huge Game Sale Starting Today on GOG Distribution Service
GOG may not be a household name, but the game distribution service has been around a long time. They’ve got a massive collection of much older games. I picked up the...Read More
If There’s a Real World, Is There a Fake World?
I find myself saying “the real world” a lot when I’m trying to differentiate video games from the rest of life. It’s something I’m trying to train myself out of, because there’s...Read More
League of Legends Championships Coming to Madison Square Garden
The North American League of Legends Championship Series is coming to Madison Square Garden this summer.Read More
Kids Who Don’t Like Toothbrushing Might Like This Game
Kids don’t generally have a good sense of time. What feels like foreeeever might only be a few seconds. We’re supposed continue toothbrushing for a good minute or two, paying equal...Read More
New Study: Kinect Learning Is Effective Learning
A recent study supports the theory that kids learn best when they can touch things. Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh explored how kids...Read More
