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Teaching Child Violence Prevention Through Gaming
Allan McCullough is a man with a very noble quest. He wants to help educate children so that they know how to deal with violence. How does he plan to do it? Videogames.
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Counselor Creates Grief Game to Help Children
In an age of video games, the old-school game board was holding their attention. As they moved their pieces, the boys not only seemed oblivious to the adults in the room, but they also had no hesitation expressing how they felt.
They were members of a grief-support group led by Oakwood Middle School counselor Matt Gagnon. The board game, Doggone Grief, was created by Brenda Brown, director of Aultman Grief Services.
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Free Online Game Promotes Piggybank Prowess
The Great Piggybank Adventure focuses on four main elements of personal finance: goal setting, saving and spending wisely, the basics of inflation, and diversifying funds. Throughout the game, players must make choices that will affect their financial plans, use different investment strategies, and choose personal dream goals.
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Online Firms and Toy Companies Clash over Kids’ Virtual Worlds
Over the last few years, an entirely new competitor for children’s time has come onto the market – the online gaming world. Several independent companies have figured out how to capture the attention of the 8- to 12-year-old child in a completely new way — through virtual worlds and online gaming experiences.
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Lego to Market Board Games in U.S.
Danish toymaker Lego Group plans to start selling board games in the United States this summer as it extends its business beyond colorful building blocks. The company will announce 10 board games at the American International Toy Fair, which begins Sunday in New York.
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Hitler Youth Board Game to be Sold at Auction
British children of the time were playing marbles and hidding in air raid shelters.
But for youngsters under the Third Reich, this board game was invented to teach them the tactics of warfare – against a British foe.
The war time amusement, Adlers Luftverteidigungs spiel, which translates as the Eagle Air Defence Game, involves two or more players attacking enemy positions on a geographically illustrated board while defending friendly territory.
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British children of the time were playing marbles and hidding in air raid shelters.
But for youngsters under the Third Reich, this board game was invented to teach them the tactics of warfare – against a British foe.
The war time amusement, Adlers Luftverteidigungs spiel, which translates as the Eagle Air Defence Game, involves two or more players attacking enemy positions on a geographically illustrated board while defending friendly territory.
Inspire a New Generation of Game Experiences for Children
As “Avatar” smashes box office records and new science-fiction action video game “Mass Effect 2″ seems to be lighting up the global gaming community, an international competition to inspire a new generation of game experiences for children is being announced.
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Game Encourages Children to Make Their Characters Wear Sexy Lingerie and Buy Trophy Orphans
A new web craze where young girls make their virtual characters adopt children as fashion accessories has outraged parents’ groups.
The controversial My Minx game also sees girls as young as seven giving their characters contraceptives and morning-after pills.
Players clothe their virtual minxes in sexy lingerie and other revealing outfits and buy ‘trophy orphans’ – named after children already adopted by celebrities.
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Hellesdon Youngsters’ Board Game Launched
A board game designed by Norwich schoolchildren has been launched in John Lewis.
Youngsters from Kinsale Junior School in Hellesdon were on hand to demonstrate how to play Norfolk’s Fine Food, an innovative game in which players have to collect locally produced ingredients to create a healthy meal.
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Be Horrible on Wii with Horrid Henry
Asylum Entertainment and SouthPeak Games are pleased to announce Horrid Henry Missions of Mischief – based on the highest rated children’s television series on CiTV, produced by Novel Entertainment, and the hugely successful Horrid Henry books written by Francesca Simon– is available in UK stores today on Wii.
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