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Hefty price, connectivity missteps mar Super Mario

  NEW YORK / AP Super Mario might be running, but a hefty price tag for a mobile game just won’t fly with the masses. The world so far is underwhelmed by “Super Mario Run,” which Nintendo released for the iPhone last week. This is no “Pokemon Go,” which captivated millions of players in their quest to collect digital monsters ...

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Amazon aims to blur lines between game, real life

  AFP On Amazon’s streaming game platform Twitch, the world of gaming is being intermingled with real life. A feature unveiled by Amazon called IRL — the acronym for “in real life” — lets people broadcast moments from their lives as part of game play. Amazon called this feature “a new content category designed to both enable and encourage Twitch’s ...

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Parents binging on media, claim they’re good role models for kids

  LOS ANGELES / AP Parents spend more than nine hours a day with TVs, computers and other screen devices while also giving themselves high marks as role models for their children’s media use, according to a survey. Among all those surveyed — nearly 1,800 parents in the US — daily screen time averaged nine hours and 22 minutes, with ...

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