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Five tips for finding used video games for kids

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

If you read my post on iPhone games for kids, you’ll realize I’m cheap. I won’t spend much for video games because kids — well, at least my 6-year-old — are fickle when it comes to video games. My son, for example, will play some games repeatedly and others only sparingly. Plus, as a parent [...]

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The future of TV and the death of cable

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Originally published in Vegas Seven Web-enabled TVs and streaming video suggest the days of paying for cable are numbered I have two devices in my living room that stream movies and prime time TV shows straight from the Internet to my TV—and no, the setup wasn’t sourced from a scene in The Matrix. One of [...]

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Wii Fit workout working. Mii getting fit

Thursday, February 4, 2010

My love for the Wii Fit has not waned since I first wrote about our family’s new toy last month. Sure, we play games with the kids and have started experimenting with new games for the boy — Marvel Super Hero Squad and Lego Star Wars — but the real value remains what the Wii [...]

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Wii to stream Netflix movies. Why do I still have cable?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Soon, owners of the Nintendo Wii will be able to stream movies from Netflix to play on their TV. So when you get tired of the boy or girl beating you at Wii tennis, you can go to your Netflix que and instantly watch a movie about tennis. (Anybody remember Chad Lowe’s star turn in [...]

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A new resolution: Wii be fit

Thursday, January 7, 2010

As parents of small children, now 6 and 2, my wife and I didn’t want to bring a video game system into our house. It was too soon, we figured, and we kept hearing horror stories from parents with kids who became addicted to video games. Heck, I reported a few of those stories. We’ve [...]

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