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03.23.2009 11:41 am

China’s anti-addiction efforts would be wasted here

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last week, China announced it had gotten a firm grip on video game addiction and believed to have it under control.

Big news anywhere in the world but especially in China, where the bizarre story of a 26-year-old man dying from 15…

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08.27.2008 9:05 pm

Space station virus perhaps came from a game

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

International Space Station image, courtesy of NASALovely. Just lovely. Apparently there are computer viruses aboard the International Space Station — and one of them might have come from a video game.

The virus in question is named Gammima.AG and is a low-level worm designed to sweep up personal information…

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07.30.2008 12:05 am

A few things worth knowing about the Internet

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As the site’ name implies, these are rather neat — “neat” in the 1960s sense of the word: They are 10 things everyone should know about the Internet.

Game Guy veers away from his usual fare and mentions this because, well,…

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02.06.2008 12:09 am

TV, Internet, video games are killing our interest in nature

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Our time spent with the TV, Internet and video games is taking away from time spent with nature, according to new research funded by The Nature Conservancy.

This growing penchant for “videophilia,” as the researchers described it, not only makes us less…

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