Mizuko Ito, researcher at the University of California and author of a study focusing on young people and their social behaviour in an online environment has found at that it can be an effective way of picking up and learning social behaviour:

“But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age,” said Mizuko Ito.

Teenagers learn important social, technical skills online: study [physorg.com]

Even though the iPhone game Trism only sells for $5 it made a total profit of $250,000 for the developer Steve Demeter during the first two months. Pretty insane actually but the scene is getting crowded since there are over 1500 games available in Apple’s app store.

Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game [cnn.com]

I haven’t tried it yet so I don’t know if it’s any good but it’s at least a pretty good idea. Since the iPhone features pretty advanced accelerometer technology, SGN has created a bunch of games that is played on your computer but where you use your iPhone to control the actual game.

Turn Your iPhone into a Computer Game Controller With iFun [mashable.com]

It was many, many years since a NES cartridge left the Nintendo factory in Japan, but here’s a bunch of fan made imaginary games and artwork. Cool thing.

famicase: artists make up new nes game cartridges [technabob.com]

Rather than throwing away your old iPhone dock, you can just use your steady hands and a dremel and make your bulkier iPhone 3G fit. It will all be over in a minute or two if you got the right tools.

Make Your Old iPhone Dock Accommodate Your iPhone 3G’s Bulbous Ass [Gizmodo]

Rock Band and Rock Band 2 will get some serious competition from Guitar Hero: World Tour this autumn. Here is a a long video (24 minutes) describing the game and showing you what it’s all about. If you are in a hurry, go check the drum solo at 5:50.

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In September you will be able to buy a really cool game in AppStore. The name of the game will be Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and CrunchGear scored a video of the game. Looks really neat, especially the way you can use the force. Check it out.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for iPhone [CrunchGear]

After the jump you will find a 5 minute video demonstrating the new Wii MotionPlus accessory and the upcoming Wii Sports 2 game, Wii Sports resort. Looks pretty neat! Go, Nintendo, go!

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The biggest gaming event of the year, E3, kicked off yesterday in Los Angeles. Today Sony held their big E3 keynote and they presented quite many things (mostly games though, no Playstation IV or something really exciting. Here’s a summary of the keynote.

Sony’s E3 2008 keynote [joystiq.com]

If you are a Netflix subscriber and a Xbox live account it’s your lucky day. In an interesting announcement today, Netflix and Microsoft presented an exclusive agreement where more than 10 000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost. Full press release inside.

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