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		<title>Free Online Mobile Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[the joy is bigger! I am a big fan of cell phone games. It’s a great and funny way of spending time. I like this occupation espec]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mobile games are great inventions! When they can be <strong>free  downloaded</strong>, the joy is bigger!</p>
<p>I am a big fan of <strong>cell phone games</strong>. It’s a great and funny way  of spending time. I like this occupation especially when I travel,  because I get bored of listening to music all the time. I like playing  all kind of games<strong>. Mobile games</strong> are easy to understand and to  play. I like to play even during classes, because nobody notices J Even  on my way to school, I like to avoid the looks from the people from the  bus, and listening to music would distract me too much.</p>
<p><strong>Downloading free mobile games</strong> is great, because if you get  bored of one game, you can just change it with another one and prepare  for another day. There are still some traps that we should be careful  at. Some sites may lie. You might search for free mobile games and you  might find free games, but most of them ask you to create an account.  This is not much of a problem, because you may use the account to  download more games in the future. But some sites say they offer free  games, and in the end they ask for money.<br />
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You should be careful when you download something, because that could  be a virus pack and this would not be good for your cell phones. Most  of the sites ask for your email to send you notifications when a new  game appears or any other news.</p>
<p>Most games and applications available are for Iphones, and with a  phone like that you can not complain you are bored. From strategy games  to card games, this phone ca support anything and ca be a great source  of fun.</p>
<p>Not all phones support games, that’s why a new version of cell phone  is better for you, so you can have the game you want. There are  categories, there are games for children, girls, boys, cars games or  anything your heart desires.</p>
<p>They help you loose time in case you have too much, just like  computer games. The difference is that cell phones are available  everywhere and anytime and are easy to carry around.<br />
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It’s funny how we get excited when we win a game, even if no one  knows why we are smiling about. I use to play cell phone games before I  go to sleep, but I use to play the most boring one, so I get quickly  bored and want to sleep.</p>
<p>It’s great what we can do with cell phones and computers…I agree that  cell phones offer us large possibilities, from listening to music,  radio, calling whoever we want and playing our favourite games.</p>
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		<title>Online Gaming Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Game video online at the foot of the Christmas tree, then it is the rapid drift in the virtual teenager blossomed. Faced with this nightmare scenario, European companies are alarmed a new &#8220;disease&#8221; for which the therapeutic means are lacking. More Online Games &#8211; According to a recent study published in Germany and Britain in 2007, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Game video online at the foot of the Christmas tree, then it is the rapid drift in the virtual teenager blossomed. Faced with this nightmare scenario, European companies are alarmed a new &#8220;disease&#8221; for which the therapeutic means are lacking.</p>
<p>More Online Games &#8211; According to a recent study published in Germany and Britain in 2007, more than a regular player in ten shows signs of addiction. Even if these practices more excessive concern Asia, where the culture of online gaming is widespread, experts believe in France as in Germany than 1% to 2% of players&#8217; games massively multiplayer online (MMO) simulation games endlessly, have a practice of pathological nature, with a negative impact on their social life.</p>
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<p>On average, gamers engage 35 to 40 hours per week online games, according to estimates. In France, nearly 60% of players recognize, however, have already played once at least ten hours and 5% reported spending more than 30 hours per week in the virtual world, according to a recent study by the &#8220;Rights Forum l &#8217;internet&#8217; French agency for regulating the Internet.</p>
<p>It is usually far, however, 50 hours in a row having claimed the life of a compulsive gambler South Korea 28 years in a cybercafe in 2005. According to many experts, the criterion for assessing a pathological practice of online games is not so much the number of hours but the social disruption in reality.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unlike the forms of dependency-related substances, addiction to online games is recognized in society as a moral weakness but not as a disease,&#8221; says Jakob Hein, head of the addiction to the Charity Hospital Berlin.</p>
<p>Yet this addiction &#8220;leads to similar problems in families and in the economy&#8221; and deserves the authorities treat &#8220;on the same level than the others in terms of prevention and intervention, he said. In Germany, the diagnosis of addiction to games is not recognized by health insurance funds, and specialized treatment centers can be counted on the fingers of one hand.</p>
<p>In his study, the German psychiatrist heard parents say they &#8220;prefer to see their children play on the internet rather than smoking cannabis. &#8220;Most experts agree that it is time to take seriously the issues of Internet addiction,&#8221; says Professor Jean-Luc Venisse, chief of addiction to the hospital of Nantes.</p>
<p>And &#8220;they agree that they are not action games or puzzle games but simulation games, especially multiplayer role-playing (&#8230;) MMORPGs that have the highest risk of drift addictive in subjects fragile. These games continue to evolve in the absence of the player who then feel lacking when no longer connected or excluded by the rest of the gaming community.</p>
<p>&#8220;World of Warcraft,&#8221; one of the games most likely to create dependency, more than 9.3 million subscribers worldwide.  This behavioral dependence, which moves slowly, is indicative of some discomfort (academic failure, lack of self recovery, etc. &#8230;). In a parallel universe, players will find a virtual social environment, clear rules and a system of rewards and sanctions that they lack daily.</p>
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<p>The phenomenon does not exist only at teens but also at fathers and mothers and the elderly, according to Laurent Baup, Legal Rights Forum on the internet.  When to sound the alarm? &#8221;From the moment you begin to wonder, is that we should have reacted long time,&#8221; said the psychiatrist Jakob Hein. Ironically, it is often on the Internet platforms that parents of problem gamblers seek advice and support.</p>
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