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Success: Online fun more than kids' stuff
There's big money in kids' games, says Chris White, founder of Big Little Bang, an online 3D virtual world for children aged 7 to 14.MTV Networks paid US$160 million for Neopets in 2005. Two years later Disney bought Club Penguin...
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Cuba looks to kids to recover faded boxing glory
Lazaro Perez jabs rhythmically at his rival in a steamy Havana gym, dancing, feinting and punctuating each blow with a grunt. After the final bell, he thrusts a weary arm skyward in triumph, and a proud smile spreads across a face still years from feeling a razor's scrape. Perez has just become Havana's first under-75-pound (34-kilogram) boxing champion in a new age category for 9- and...
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More local kids chosen for AWG
It looks like more Fairview kids have been chosen for the Alberta Winter Games next week. Kianna Stranaghan and Kaila Wiebe have been chosen to play on the Team Alberta U15 Zone 8 volleyball team in Spruce Grove on Feb. 9 – 12.
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THQ exits licensed kids games to focus on hard-core titles
THQ Inc., once one of the industry's largest publishers of video games for children, said it will no longer produce licensed kids titles for traditional game consoles.
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Thousands of Havering school kids to go to Olympic Games
Thousands of Havering school children will be going to this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games for free, it was announced.
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THQ shares down on plans to drop kids games
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of THQ Inc. fell more than 5% Wednesday to 70 cents after the videogame publisher announced plans to exit the segment for "traditional kids' licensed" games and focus on core franchises. THQ has made games in the past under license agreements with Disney and Nickelodeon that included properties such as "SpongeBob Squarepants" and "Cars," among others. "As ...
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D3Publisher takes over from THQ for DreamWorks tie-ins
D3Publisher has signed an agreement with DreamWorks Animation to develop games based on the movie studio's next three feature films: Madagascar 3, Rise of the Guardians, and The Croods. The deal's announcement comes as troubled publisher THQ, which secured worldwide exclusive rights to put out titles based on DreamWorks productions, is exiting the kids' licensed games business to focus on "core ...
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Lawyer: Teacher brought kids from other classes for 'tasting games'
An attorney representing a student at Miramonte Elementary School said Friday children were pulled from after-school programs and other teachers' classes to take part in "tasting games" at the center of lewd conduct charges against a fired teacher.
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The best cruise ships for kids
Cruises pack in extra value for families — most of the larger ships offer free kids' activities, lavish playrooms with computer games and toys galore, and family-friendly diversions like waterslides, miniature golf courses, and rock-climbing walls.
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Teach kids to be honest
STATEPOINT-- In today's fast-paced, wired world, all that separates us from sharing guiltiest thoughts and darkest secrets with the rest of the planet is a single mouse click or finger stroke across a
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