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What's A 'Prosocial' Video Game? One Professor Explains

I was recently reading a study about the impact video games have on children that didn't focus on violence. Rather, Iowa State University professor Douglas Gentile and other researchers were looking at how "prosocial" titles can actually encourage children to share and support others. You can read through their entire findings...

Posted July 7, 2009
KMIZ ABC17 Doesn't Accept Responsibility For Linking 'Animal Crossing' To Pedophilia

Yesterday, I wrote about KMIZ ABC17 reporting on the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force linking Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk and pedophilia. ABC17's story was an unfortunate bit of reporting that preyed on parents' fears and unfairly cast Animal Crossing fans in a negative light. Curtis Varns, the station's news director, had this...

Posted March 18, 2009| 30 Comments
Missouri Task Force Links 'Animal Crossing: City Folk' With Pedophilia...Like Idiots

ABC17 News has reported that the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force has linked Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk with pedophilia. Andy Anderson, from said task force comments, "There is no reason an adult should have this game." ABC17 added, "Anderson says adults playing 'Animal Crossing' and similar games are likely...

Posted March 17, 2009| 47 Comments
Naughty Words Found in Promo Copies of 'Animal Crossing: Wild World.'

Update! Nintendo's Official Response: Previously played copies of the 2005 DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function...

Posted December 3, 2008| 26 Comments
'Animal Crossing: City Folk' Review

You like animals, don' t you? Sure, we all do. That's why you like to play animal-related video games, which is a good thing, because they're going to keep making them. This particular game is called Animal Crossing: City Folk, and it's for the Wii. Here's the X-Play review. And you can read the written review here. Watch Larger Version of...

Posted November 19, 2008| 11 Comments
Analysts Predict Holiday 2008 Flops And Bombs

Gamasutra posted an interesting article in which it interviewed industry analysts on which games will "miss" in the 2008 holiday season. Given the huge glut of titles typically available at the end of the year, there are always good and/or high-profile games that lose out. Given current economic conditions, games that were once viewed...

Posted November 19, 2008| 34 Comments
Nintendo Wii Speak Channel November 16

Expanding on the Wii's community features, Nintendo announced that a new Wii Speak channel will be arriving this November 16 during their Media Summit in San Francisco, CA. The channel will allow voice chat for users, utilizing the upcoming Wii Speak voice peripheral which is also bundled with Animal Crossing: City Folk coming out also this...

Posted October 2, 2008| 5 Comments
Wireless Wii Keyboard By Logitech

During this week's E3, Logitech introduced a new wireless keyboard for the Nintendo Wii. In light of Nintendo's new voice-peripheral device, the WiiSpeak, the keyboard contributes to the system's user communications by allowing an easier way of chatting, browsing and perhaps even searching for games via the WiiWare. “Our new keyboard...

Posted July 18, 2008| 5 Comments
'Animal Crossing,' 'Kirby' Come To Wii In 2008

The back pages of dusty financial reports often contain the juiciest pieces of insider info. Case-in-point, a recent Nintendo investor report about the company's latest financial results suggest Animal Crossing and Kirby are coming to the Wii in 2008...at least in Japan. Other games listed for a Japanese release in 2008 are Mario Kart Wii , Wii...

Posted January 29, 2008| 7 Comments
'Animal Crossing' Wii To Be MMO?

Puke-cute videogame Animal Crossing is coming to the Wii, but other than that, no one knows too much... except Edge magazine. The videogame journal reports, "A Japanese source has confirmed to Edge that the upcoming Wii iteration of Animal Crossing is set to be a social networking MMO." Nintendo is like, "no comment," but...

Posted October 24, 2007| 15 Comments