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More parents are handing their smartphones to their young children in restaurants or on car trips to keep them entertained. That may be why almost half the top-selling iPhone apps are games for kids.

A new study raises questions about the cognitive usefulness of brain-training computer games.

If you think an electric toothbrush is high-tech, wait until you hear about the Internet-enabled version.

Ready your virtual cattle and the Microsoft branding iron. Zynga announced today that its hit social game FarmVille on Facebook has now launched on Microsoft's MSN Games portal.

While some of us might be willing to pay to make Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars go away, it appears that Wall Street has other ideas.

Social gaming startup Zynga is seeing some impressive traction. It now boats 129 million monthly active users across its portfolio of more than 30 games, according to both Inside Facebook's AppData(see chart) and Developer Analytics.

Microsoft just launched Page Hunt, a game that presents web pages to players and asks that they guess key words to hunt them down. In the past, RWW has covered a number of search relevancy projects that incorporate human computational power including Semanti. But few projects have been presented to volunteers in such a fun and easy way.

The international website for Terminator: Salvation has a bunch of new images, wallpapers, and buddy icons for you to check out. They even have an online multiplayer game (online gaming is so huge overseas) and a game called Resistance 2018 that will be coming soon. You can also register for the Terminator Fan Immersion Game and enter for a chance to win a Terminator t-shirt.