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Games:
Online Games, Game Reviews, Cheats and Recommended Reading

[Online Games] [Reviews and Cheat Codes] [Recommended Reading]

Online Games!

Mousing Around Games Practice your mouse skills with these games! Connect 4, Battleship, Gopher, Checkers, Concentration, Pong and more!

Cartoon Network Games

Flash Flash Revolution You guessed it, it's Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) that you play with the arrow keys on your keyboard!

Fun School Games Has a variety of educational games for pre-K through grade 5.

Gameknot Chess Play 10 minutes, or several hours. Online chess community with tournaments and more.

Games for the Brain with mind benders, trivia and more.

Habbo is a FREE virtual community for anyone aged 13 years or older where you can hang out with your friends, make new ones, create and design your own personal room, and take part in many activities and contests or even make your own!

Jigzone has jigsaw puzzles of varying difficulty, and new puzzles each day.

Magnetic Poetry the refrigerator favorite moves online!

ND Games Today new games each month!

Neopets Create a virtual online pet then gain points!

Nick.com Games

Runescape The popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) with over 2 million active players!

Web Sudoku has a feature to check your work!

Yahoo Games Single-player or multi-player games. Login with your Yahoo ID to play against other online players.

Aspiring game creator? Create your own game with Gamemaker

Game Reviews, Cheat Codes & Fan Sites

Board Game Geek Board game discussion & trading site.

DDR Freak Dance Dance Revolution Fan Site

ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board is a good resource to find out if a game is rated "E" (Everyone) "T" (Teen) etc.

Game Informer has reviews, cheats and more.

GamePro Reviews, cheats, strategies and more.

Recommended Reading

Beck, John C and Mitchell Wade. Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Harvard Business School Press, 2004.

Ben Berkowitz. Doctors Use Video Games to Hone Skills. USA Today, December 16, 2004.

Cassell, Justine and Henry Jenkins. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. MIT Press, 1998.

Gaming and the Significance for Information Literacy. Video of OCLC Symposium at ALA Midwinter 2005, featuring Migell Acosta, John Beck, Kurt Squire, and Constance Steinkuehler.

Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Palgrave McMillan, 2003.

James C Rosser Jr MD, Paul Lynch MD, Laury A. Haskamp BS, Asaf Yalif MD, Douglas A. Gentile PhD, and Liza Giammaria MD, MPH. Are Video Game Players Better at Laparoscopic Surgical Tasks? Presentation at Beth Israel Hospital, n.d.