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‘For Laurn Schroeder, protecting her first grade girls is a priority. “[They’re] innocent, and we want to try and keep them that way,” she said.

But maybe not so innocent…

” But because the Wii, the PS3 and other game consoles have Internet access, it’s easy for kids to access porn.‘

It’s easy to avoid porn as a kid these days. Heck, thanks to proxies with inbuilt nanny systems and sites such as Yahooligans!, showing your children an internet without pornography is easy-cakes.

Lady, supervise your children when they are in a situation where they might access foul materials, and you will be all set for a family friendly Wii web browsing experience.

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Remember Nanostray? Well even if you don’t its back, and its gonna take your DS by storm. Check out this latest promo video!

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Impossible Mission is coming in 2007 to a shelf near you. That’s right, a shelf. Not the virtual console, it will be sold in-store. Jeesh.

No its not an unlicensed Mission Impossible game, it’s a remake of a classic Commodore 64 game that goes by the same name. Ports of the game have already appeared on a plethora of old-skool game consoles, including the Atari 7800, NES and the Sega Master System.

The game is also reported to be flying onto the PS2 and the Nintendo DS.

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Ever wonder how a complex snowboarding control system might work on the Wii? Well EA have thrown out some promotional material for SSX blur which does just that, shows the world what snowboarding control system the Wii is capable of. Oh boy, does it look fine.

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Live in Massachusetts? Well Boston Mayor Thomas Menino may make life difficult for you soon if you are a minor. The Mayor, with help from the prolific Jack Thompson, has proposed a piece of legislature that places video games in the same category as pornography.

If a video game meets any of these criteria, than youth will not be able to purchase the title.

‘Depicting violence in a manner patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community, so as to appeal predominantly to the morbid interest in violence of minors.

Is patently contrary to prevailing standards of adults in the county where the offense was committed as to suitable material for such minors.

Lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.‘

As much fun as it would be to pin the approval of this bill this to the characteristic Mayor, the fact that Jack Thompson is involved in this usually means that the amount of media attention that the issue will generate, will ensure that the bill never be passed.

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All the smart cookie developers are waiting for Metroid to be released to see how FPS’s will work on the Wii. Sure, Red Steel ahd an enjoyable stab in the dark at setting up the FPS genre for the Wii, but all-in-all, it sucked balls compared to what Wii owners expect from a properly designed FPS.

Luckily, while other developers are hanging back to perfect great games and learn from the experiences of others, EA has the grunt and the financial backing to jump right into the Wii FPS scene. They will be releasing the first Medal of Honour game for the Wii, Vanguard. If you want to play Vanguard using a controller that the game dynamics are designed for, you will have to purchase the sister-launch PS2 version.

So far, the game looks average, but reads terrific. Bad Wii FPS memories aside, the information about Vanguard is promising and exciting. EA describes gameplay as stepping..

‘…into the boots of Frank Keegan, Corporal of the 82nd Airborne Division and engage in battles throughout Europe. From Operation Husky on the shores of Sicily to Operation Varsity inside Nazi Germany, you’ll fight behind enemy lines in the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into heroes of WWII.‘

It’s time to burn some nasty Nazi’s using a wide variety of authentic weaponry. Each mission is based on historically recorded data, to provide an aggressive history lesson whilst you play.

EA promises that as the first Medal of Honour game on the Nintendo Wii, Vanguard will take full advantage of the Wii’s unique control system.

Provided the vanguard developers stick to simple, quality controls and exciting gameplay, Vanguard may be able to create a stable stepping stone for consumers interest between Red Steel and the eventual release of Metroid.

MSNBC has published an article that asks the question, then kinda answers it too, ‘Can brain games keep you young?‘

Brain Training DS do believe that Brain Training Games can retrain brains.

“We see people who start with the average memory performance of people at their age,” says Henry Mahncke, Posit Science’s vice president of research. “And on average, when they’re done, they have the memory performance of people who are 10 years younger than they are.”

The article concludes with encouragement from a medical professional, who encourages everyone to perform challenging puzzles or tasks to keep their brain agile.

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MapleStory, the delightful MMORPG is coming to the Nintendo DS. We kid you not. While a Western release has yet to be confirmed, the mere though of playing an import sends a shudder down every DS owners spine.

The game is set for release in Korea and Japan at a date yet to be announced. The game is rumoured to be compatible with PC players, and only playable via wireless internet.

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Do you think that Maple Story would work on the DS?

When we heard that a pokemon-esque game was coming to the DS titled ‘Fossil League‘, we were excited. Finally we could capture and train the elderly and use them to fight other old people in the prestigious League.

Unfortunately for us, Fossil League focuses on collecting, training and fighting the other kind of living fossils: dinosaurs. You play as a young boy called Taiga, and battle with various competitors to advance in the storyline.

Cutscenes will be played out in 2D animation, though most gameplay will be 3 Dimensional. Some screens..

According the the crazy-ass kids from Destructoid, Dell has purchased 1up.com.

“Jiminy Jillikers Radioactive man!” Of all the companies expected to purchase 1up, Dell wasn’t at the top of the list. Still, as long as Dell maintains 1up in its current form, then the site will continue to survive.

You can check out 1up with a dell logo here - http://dell.1up.com/