Children have no chance against this tsunami of unhealthy messages that drowns them in a torrent of poor eating and obesity. While your children are immersed in media, playing video games or surfing the web, they are being sedentary instead of physically active.
Despite the blockbuster releases of two "Call of Duty" games and "Halo 4," the video game industry had another down year in 2012, according to a year-...
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NEW YORK (AP) ā Nintendo has sold more than 400,000 of its new video game console, the Wii U, in its first week on sale in the U.S., the company sai...
NEW YORK (AP) ā In the six years since the last major video game system launched, Apple unveiled the iPhone and the iPad, "Angry Birds" invaded smar...
When Nintendo first broached the idea of multiple-screen video games in 2004, many critics were skeptical that players could focus on two images at on...
NEW YORK (AP) ā Nintendo has a knack for changing the course of video games, appealing to the masses from kids to grandparents even if its technolog...
Wii U along with its tablet-like GamePad controller and 'MiiVerse' social network were announced in "final format" by Nintendo President Satoro Iwata ...
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OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Nintendo will launch a successor to its Wii game console in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the crucial year-end s...
Here, my son -- I mean, a boy -- is explaining to my husband -- I mean, his father -- how the three hours he's already spent playing video games doesn't really count and that he's actually earned MORE time for all the time he's spent playing video games that didn't count.
Are you getting a new Wii or Xbox Kinect for the holidays? Many proud new gaming console owners will be happy to hear that playing movement-based vide...
Tomorrow, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is presenting a report at the E 3 Expo in Los Angeles that may surprise media designers and c...
Technology creates a mediated and low-resolution approximation of life that does offer utilitarian benefits and some entertainment value. But is it "real" enough to want to substitute much of real life?
Nintendo has just made official its intention to drop the suggested retail price of the Wii down to $149.99, and will additionally include a copy of M...