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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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Preview: Hands-on with Aion: Tower of Eternity

Fantasy MMORPGs are a tricky thing to report one’s impressions on. Here is a genre of game whose very design is intended to be epic and time-consuming, providing players with dozens upon dozens of hours of large, suitably “massive” tasks like exploring a sprawling new game world, battling and questing your way through a rich, [...]

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Flashcarts Under Fire: Nintendo Sues R4 Importers in Japan

Nintendo has tried — and by some accounts, failed — to stop DS software piracy in Korea with threats of “strict legal action” against those distributing the pirated commercial titles. But in Japan, they’re taking a different tack. Rather than trace the digital ones and zeros left behind by ROM pirates, Nintendo has instead decided [...]

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GameSpyte Episode 8

This week on GameSpyte, Jesse explores Bill Gate’s philanthropic side, harmful chemicals in game consoles, Microsoft’s attentive customer service and Uwe Boll’s latest theatrical disaster, Postal.

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