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Massively Mother-Approved Online: Cartoon Network’s New MMORPG

As each new generation grows more and more net-savvy, new steps are being taken to provide safe havens for our impressionable youngsters. Cartoon Network, a company that knows a thing or two about keeping kids entertained, is entering the online fray: Cartoon Network is preparing to launch Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall (appropriately) this fall. On the surface, FusionFall looks like a standard kid-safe MMORPG which leverages CN's portfolio of unique characters, but as we learned during an extended conference with the FusionFall team yesterday, it has the potential to be much more than another single-click-combat level grinder -- and, as parents will be pleased to discover, it employs some fascinatingly extensive technology in the name of child safety.

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Review: The Magic Toy Chest

Every so often, a gamer can find themselves in the mood for a particular flavor of game, and these effects can be especially pronounced when one finds oneself surrounded by entries of that genre. Between Braid, the announcement of Henry Hatsworth, and next month’s scheduled release of The Fool and His Money, it’s an understatement to say [...]

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Interview: Traveller’s Tales on LEGO Batman and Corporate Ownership

We speak with TT Games about creative independence, publisher/developer relations, and kid-friendly games.

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E3 2008: Monster Lab

Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands! Now I know what it feels like to be God! Okay, so, maybe Monster Lab isn’t quite so fraught with moral dilemmas as your standard mad science story. We can still have a [...]

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Gaming and the Perceptions of Outsiders

Over at Escapist Magazine, Brenda Brathwaite wrote a lengthy feature trying to divine the source of the non-gaming population’s antipathy toward video games. She polled a group of forty of her friends who do not play video games about their opinions of games and discovered that the mood was overwhelmingly negative with only two respondents [...]

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