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• Video Game Round-Up: Licensed Fun for Everyone, Part 1

  With the holidays upon us, the steady trickle of video games for kids has turned into a landslide. There's plenty of educational gaming to be found (watch this space...), but this week's focus is on licensed games -- those flashy, store-aisle eyeball-grabbers that work in characters and plotlines from kids' favorite toys, movies and TV shows. Consider it sort of like eating your dessert first and then working backward toward the veggies. Read More... Posted Nov 08 2007, 04:03 PM by Aaron Burgess with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Barbie, cars, nick jr, video games, videogames, nickelodeon, dora, pixar, airbender, aang, gift guides, mater, holiday games, lightning mcqueen, ben 10, cartoon network, avatar, princess rosella

• Nickelodeon Launches myNOGGIN for Ad-Free Online Learning

  More power to those of you who've managed to keep your little ones offline, but for the rest of us, Nickelodeon has launched myNOGGIN, a subscription-based, ad-free site aimed at preschoolers through first graders. Featuring a variety of curriculum-based learning games developed with an educational advisory board, and hosted by familiar characters Blue, Dora, Diego and Moose A. Moose, the site offers three subscription levels: $5.95 for 12 months, $7.95 for six months, and $9.95 for a month-to-month deal. Read More... Posted Oct 23 2007, 09:32 AM by Aaron Burgess with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: nick jr, learning games, noggin, dora, mynoggin, online learning, moose a. moose, blue