Family Games

Iraq banned from Beijing Games, says NOC chief (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

24 Jul 2008

Iraq cannot take part in the Beijing Olympics because it disbanded the country's Olympic Committee although a comment from the IOC, which organizes the Games, suggested the ban may not be final.

A gaming revolution; New video games get players off the couch (The Bulletin)

24 Jul 2008

Video games have been reviled as the enemy of exercise and a villain in the nation‘s childhood obesity epidemic. But not at Dr. Lisa Uri‘s house.When her 5-year-old daughter, Rebecca, plays a boxing game on the Nintendo Wii, an interactive video game system, "she‘s literally sweating," Uri said. A family physician at High Lakes Health Care in Bend and mother of three daughters, Uri, though she ...

A Different Pay-To-Play: MTVN Offers Developers Cash Bonus For Creating Hit Games (CBS News)

24 Jul 2008

MTV Networks' (NYSE: VIA) Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group's AddictingGames is going to announce a program designed encourage developers to make more popular productions. The rewards program will launch sometime in Q3. Over the next 12 months, AddictingGames will reward the developers of the portal's top 25 games that generate the most plays, ranked by the site, at the end of each quarter.