Five years ago, online gaming was considered a solitary activity, says David Williams, who heads up the Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group.
It's not just an upgrade -- it's an entirely new system that will change the way you and your family experience games and entertainment.
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The Japanese company emphasized family-friendly games in popularizing its original Wii videogame console.
Family-friendly games like "Angry Birds" and "Bejeweled" consistently hover on the list of top-ten apps for the iPhone and other mobile platforms.
The family organising the games are busy putting up a second yurt for visitors, which fills up as the evening wears on.
Some 55, 000 members of this Games Family will need transporting each day.
It is capable of acting as a video link to keep in touch with doctors and family, playing games and giving updates on the news.
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Featuring a 20-inch screen, this mobile desktop PC can lay flat on a coffee table for the whole family to play games on the large screen.
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Some Nintendo partners, as well as competitors, predict the new Wii U's early success will more likely be determined by family-oriented games like "Wii Fit U, " an exercise program.
Beneath the surface activities of the family, the games of hide and seek and the baking of biscuits, the trips to the zoo and the colouring of Tyrannosaurus Rex's scales, personalities are being assembled upon whose strength and creativity all subsequent flourishing will depend.
Americans will never again miss Little League games or festive family get-togethers because of work.
Board games with the family filled Saturday nights and a drive-in movie was a treat that the kids bragged about on Monday morning at school.
For many, Memorial Day 2012 will be filled with picnics with family and friends, outdoors games, and hunting for the best sales at the malls, discount stores and big box retailers.
The club has expressed sympathy to his family and cancelled all of its games this week as a mark of respect.
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On this couch, sharing just the one remote control, an entire family would watch TV, play video games, or surf the internet together.
You have further assumed that this phrase, which does not actually occur in the title, means the entire family is being encouraged to play these games.
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The Olympic Route Network is in action with 30 miles of Games Lanes for the "Olympic family".
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Her grandson, Prince Charles, has kept the link between the Royal Family and Caithness alive and attends the Mey Games.
Amy and I face the same situation with our son: His soccer practices and games eat up a lot of family time.
But Christina Vercelletto, a senior editor at Parenting magazine, says that engaging in the games with them can do a family good.
If all sport could be enjoyed with the same generosity and family friendly atmosphere which has generally accompanied these Games then the world might be a better place.
At the same time, social and intellectual activities such as visiting family and friends, reading, playing intellectually stimulating games or learning a new language did nearly nothing to ward off the symptoms of an aging brain, the study said.
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With television news ruled out, the family spent their time watching other channels and playing board games.
But Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association - representing London cabbies - complained of "chaos" on London's roads as a result of 30 miles of Games Lanes for the use of the Olympic family.
But all other segments, defined by NPD as Core Gamers, Family and Kid Gamers, Light PC Gamers and Avid PC Games, shrank.
Stephen Kirker, 40, is a dad of two teenagers and would like to attend as many games as possible in Gauteng province with the entire family.
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