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Benjamin has a couple of great articles at Bright Hub for Nintendo Wii fans. If you have ever wanted to get your Wii online, whether to play multiplayer games with friends or to play free games, you will enjoy these two articles:
Step by Step Guide to Getting Online With the Nintendo Wii
Best Places Online to [...]

This is moderately gaming related once you see the picture (below the fold). On Threshold today, we were trying to inspire people to vote for us on various game ranking sites. So as often happens, the discussion turned to “boobies.” I decided to google an inspirational picture, and so I googled “hottest naked chick on [...]

The article about games for couples generates some interesting points, so I figured I’d point out a few other articles by the same writer that go into various types of Wii Games:
Plus, the picture from the one about hardcore games cracked me up enormously.
5 Best Wii Games for Hardcore Gamers
5 Best Wii Games, Period [...]

One of my writers really outdid himself with this one:
What Level is Your Daughter? The WoW Method for Raising Kids and MMO Characters
So, when I upgrade a piece of equipment and stuff it into the dark recesses of my backpack to be discarded, I can help but think of exchanging a soiled diaper for a [...]

I wrote this article back in September of 2008: Nintendo Wii Motion Plus: What Is It, When Will It Be released, and When Will We Get It? The article has generated more traffic than anything else I’ve written on Bright Hub. It gets at least 1,000 views a month, sometimes 3,000+. Clearly a lot of [...]

One of my writers put together a great article on this topic. It includes some lessons I had to learn the hard way, through much discomfort and unhappiness.
A Parent’s Guide to Balancing Family and Work Responsibilities with MMO Gaming
Any other parents out there have their own tips, horror stories, or experiences to share?

My wife wrote an excellent guide to healing a few weeks ago and I forgot to bring it up for discussion! She plays the healer type character on every MMO or RPG we play. Over the years, she has definitely become a highly skilled expert on the subject (and play) of healers.
Check out her article: [...]

Raph Koster wrote an incredibly interesting and thought provoking blog post here: The perfect geek age?

Was being born in 1971 the perfect time to be born a geek?

I read this story with horror but without surprise.
Dad is accused of beating 6-year-old for poor gaming skills
“The victim’s mother told police Taulbee became upset when the boy didn’t play a video game well,” the story says.
But the story never reported what game the boy was playing.
Brian Gregg of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Department of [...]

Bright Hub has a contest going right now where they are giving away free money (in the form of $200 Visa Gift Cards) for just joining the site and signing up for a weekly digest of new articles published. You pick the areas you are interested in (including none if none of them interest [...]