The News Review:

- Yankees to stream games online locally
- E3: BattleForge bombed at retail but booms as online game
- Free online games tackle adult matters

Yankees to stream games online locally
SportingNews.com
html>New York Yankees will become the first MLB team to have its games streamed live online within its home market thanks to a landmark carriage deal YES Network signed with Cablevision earlier this spring. The streamed games will begin later this season and will be available via subscription to Cablevision’s TV and broadband customers who subscribe to a tier that carries the YES Network according to several baseball and cable industry sources. init({”site_key_name”:”spn. article”"zone”:”article”"pos”:”right1″”sz”:”300×250″”tile”:”2″});.

E3: BattleForge bombed at retail but booms as online game
Los Angeles Times
"We had great respect for the developers but we had to decide whether we needed to shut down the studio. "The company met with Phenomic in April to break the bad news. Soon thereafter other developers at EA noticed that the few people who bought the title were spending a large amount of money online buying virtual cards that EA sold in the game. These Pokemon-like cards conferred game characters with special skills that can be used to play the game. "The average spending per user was off the charts" Gibeau said. "If you got someone to play the game they became passionate about it. "Gibeau made a radical call — he decided to give away BattleForge or at least a big chunk of it and reserved some levels and features to sell to players.

Free online games tackle adult matters
News 10 Now
At the sixth annual Games for Change conference the games’ developers gathered to discuss how to best use their products to bring about better understanding of issues ranging from human rights to the environment global conflict and the current recession. “This year we’re seeing real changes. We’re seeing new evidence research from some of the top scholars finally people are getting it” says President Suzanne Seggerman of Games for Change. “They’re seeing that games can do a lot more they can inspire engage educate and inform.
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