Young patients fight cancer, one video game at a time
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Jose Guevara was 16 when his doctor first told him that he had leukemia.
“They gave me a breakdown,” Guevara told NBC News. “‘You have leukemia, you’re staying in the hospital,’ and they brought a wheelchair.”
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Microsoft to unveil ‘new generation’ Xbox on May 21
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Turns out, that “special event” that Microsoft has been rumored to have in store next month is real. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant sent out invitations this morning asking reporters to “join us as we reveal a new generation of Xbox.”
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Girl Scouts chapter to add video game patch
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As recent campaigns across social media have shown, the game industry has slowly begun to own up to its troublesome legacy of sexism — expanding roles for women in the business while updating representations of them in the games.
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In the early months of 2012, a soldier from the Indiana National Guard’s 713th Engineer Company stationed in Afghanistan sent a note asking for help:
My unit and I just suffered a HORRIFIC loss in just the first nine weeks of a 12-month tour out in Afghanistan, so I was hoping that a care package from you guys would help ease the pain a little for the guys that are still here in the fight.
Source: nbcnews.com
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Penguin power? A videogame may dull pain better than morphine. In 2011, the military conducted a small study using SnowWorld and got stunning results.
Source: rockcenter.nbcnews.com
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