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Namibia: First Computer Games in Country Well Received (AllAfrica.com)

Windhoek — The first ever electronic and computer games competition in the country was well received with nearly 60 gaming pundits taking part.

Teen torches warehouse over poor computer game performance (The West Australian)

South Korean police have arrested a teenager for setting fire to a local warehouse over unhappiness at his poor performance at computer games. The 15-year-old confessed that he carried out the ar

1.5M Powerball Tickets Sold On First Day In Fla. (WFTV 9 Orlando)

TALLAHASSEE , Fla. -- Lottery officials say about 1.5 million Powerball tickets were sold the first day they went on sale in Florida. Florida is the 30th state, along with the District of Columbia and the U.S Virgin Islands, to offer the game.

Robotics teams gear up for season (The Holland Sentinel)

Excitement was infectious Monday night, Jan. 5, as area teams raced to get an edge at the start of the 2009 robotics season. FIRST Robotics had only announced the details of the season’s game on Saturday, Jan. 3, but West Ottawa had already assembled its robot’s controls, computer and electronics, attaching the robot’s “brain” to an arbitrary drive train and arms.

Online game lets kids do good works in cyberspace (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

With a faint glow illuminating her 9-year-old face, Jalyn Skelly sits mesmerized in front of a computer screen, her eyes chasing a flittering cursor as she zips around a virtual world, playing and chatting with a gaggle of digital friends. Instead of going outside after school, she goes straight to the living room, logging into the fairytale world of Elf Island, where she and her brother ...