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The ESRB is responsible for rating games and for deciding whether a title will be available to a larger public or to a smaller one. For games to get a certain rating, they have to meet some content requirements. If one is too violent or dabbles in mature themes, the ESRB will restrict it to an older audience. But, as... |
19 November 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Teen psychologists and parents have tried to figure out for a long time some of the triggers that make their children engage in violence before they turn 20 years old. In a new scientific study, experts propose that some of the youngsters do not possess the ability to correctly interpret social cues, such as the faci... |
18 September 2009
16:51 GMT |
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German teenager Gerrit Blank, 14, may consider himself lucky, after being hit in the arm by a falling meteorite. Traveling at more than 30,000 miles per hour, the incandescent, red-hot piece of rock, no larger than the size of a pea, soared extremely close to the boy, rubbing against his hand, and then burying itself... |
12 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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We reported yesterday that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe managed to sell more than 1.8 million units, which is very good news for Midway, a company that has been caught badly by the credit crunch. And it seems that due to this success, there's a good chance that we might see another Mortal Kombat videogame at th... |
28 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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New study further links the violence seen on TV with increasing rates of violent behavior among teenagers, but especially preschoolers. TV shows, action movies and extremely violent video games all have a very high impact on the way children and young adults view the world, especially if they've been exposed to ... |
27 November 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Let's face it: men come from Mars, women from Venus. Women hear from a conversation just words like shopping, money, jewel, gold, diamond, spending, and so on. Men hear just sex, football, boobs, a**, beer, chicks and so on. A new study published in "Neuropsychologia" comes with another element to the overwhelmi... |
14 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Just talk to the teens about abstinence. And add to the formula teens' sense of invulnerability. Here is the conclusion: at least one quarter of the American teen girls have a sexually transmitted disease.This is the result of a study led by Dr. Sara Forhan with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Teenagers have this tendency to escape parental control. It may be a hormonal cause, but a new research published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" comes with a totally new factor: a different brain structure (more precisely a larger amygdala, the area connected to emotional responses).During p... |
28 February 2008
04:36 GMT |
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The framed image of the guy lurking in the shadow, deceiving his way into a date with an unsuspecting youngster and later raping him or her, was shattered to pieces by a study conducted in a report issued by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. Janis Wolak of the ... |
19 February 2008
14:51 GMT |
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An old but pretty dangerous online activity, cyber bullying, tends to become more threatening than anytime before, experts believe. Lots of teenagers admit they were victims of online harassment, many of them with ages between 10-15, mentioned several researchers in a special study according to Reuters. "Youth harass... |
28 November 2007
03:06 GMT |
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If you watch too many movies, you might think that the favorite drink of the binge drinkers is spirits. But a new research shows that this may be what teens prefer; American adults are more likely to have a beer can in hand than a shot glass. These 'mythbusters' are the result of two researches made by the ... |
8 August 2007
04:57 GMT |
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You may wonder why teens get addicted to marijuana just as flies get stuck on flypaper, while most adults easily reject the drug. Surprisingly, tests on rats revealed that adolescent rats, too, are more likely than adults to get hooked on cannabis; more than that, the harmful secondary effects inflicted by the drug o... |
25 July 2007
06:22 GMT |
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A new survey reveals that although the teenagers are accessing the computer very often and almost every one of them owns at least a mobile phone, they are not attracted by technology, Reuters reported today. The research concerned Internet users with ages between 8 and 24 and included no less than 18,000 persons from... |
24 July 2007
11:09 GMT |
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A new survey reveals that 4 percent of the US teenagers are asked to offer a sexual picture to send it on the Internet although they communicate with unknown persons. The research included 1500 persons with ages from 10 to 17 and according to News24.com, it was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Basically... |
23 July 2007
09:34 GMT |
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When I first saw the title I thought, "what has someone's remixed Jean Michel Jarre's work or something?" but then when I saw EverQuest II Rise of Kunark in there I realized it wasn't about music, but about my favorite topic in the whole wide world: video games. Yes, it comes just a little bit after gi... |
20 July 2007
06:51 GMT |
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It seems that nowadays girls do not get fooled so easily anymore. A new report revealed that currently, less high school students are having sex, and condom use is on the rise. This triggered a record for the fewest teen pregnancies. Now more young people are also finishing high school and more little kids are being ... |
14 July 2007
05:10 GMT |
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We have sex for the sheer pleasure of it, but a new study shows that a sexual life started at the wrong age does in fact induce sadness, clinically known as depression. Girls who have lost their virginity at an early age present a slightly higher risk of feeling depressed compared to their counterparts, as the resear... |
28 June 2007
16:21 GMT |
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Do you know why your teen kids drink alcohol, smoke, take drugs and have sex? All these make them feel maturer than they really are, as revealed by a Canadian research. With getting older, teens deepen the gap between their real age and their self-perceived age.The team at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and th... |
19 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The South Florida authorities are now investigating a case involving two girls who were fighting straight on the street and then published the fight on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. Rachel Kalfin, 16, and Rachel Alter, were recorded by an unknown person while they were fighting on the street and t... |
15 June 2007
10:36 GMT |
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Two teenagers from Hastings were sent to the judge after a video showing them assaulting a third teen was posted on YouTube. It seems like the two attackers are brothers and were sent to the Hastings Youth Court for attacking a person in one of the city's parks. According to Newstalk ZB, the two brothers were re... |
2 May 2007
14:56 GMT |
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The local authorities arrested a Pike County teen after YouTube published numerous videos with the 18-year-old student vandalizing several stores. It seems like this wasn't the only accusation because the movies showed him breaking church windows and menacing drive-through restaurant workers, as Kentucky.com rep... |
28 March 2007
05:50 GMT |
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