Klonoa for Nintendo Wii

Here is a review of Klonoa for the Nintendo Wii from Kansas City.com.....

Video-game review: Klonoa'
By BILLY O'KEEFE
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

It's hard not to admire Namco's resilient love for "Klonoa," which soldiers on despite more than a decade without ever setting foot in mainstream popularity's ballpark.
"Klonoa" takes it back to the beginning on the Wii with a philosophically verbatim remake of the 1997 original that debuted on the original Playstation.
The predictable changes are here on schedule. The blocky 3-D graphics are completely redone and look thoroughly modern (by Wii standards) thanks to better animation and a much smoother framerate. Gibberish gives way to a full complement of voice actors, who class up what remains a pretty goofy storyline.
http://www.kansascity.com/433/story/1196580.html

Video Game Addiction

Video game addiction has been talked about for quite awhile.
But now it seems this is really getting a lot of press.

Parents have been saying for years that their kids are "addicted" to video games, but a new study by an Iowa State University psychology professor is the first to actually report that pathological patterns of video game addiction exist in a national sample of youth, aged 8 to 18.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103547.htm

MONDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- A sizable number of young video game players -- fully 8.5 percent -- exhibit signs of addiction to gaming, a new study has found.
These kids aren't just playing a lot. Their gaming interferes with school performance, disrupts interaction with family and friends and poses health problems, the study reveals.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/hscout/2009/04/20/hscout626221.html

A new research article out today in the journal Psychological Science suggests that the answer is yes.
Nearly one in 10 children and teens who play video games showed signs of what could be considered addiction to games in a January 2007 Harris poll that the research is based upon.
The poll of 1,178 U.S. kids and teens (aged 8 to 18) found that 8.5% of those who played video games exhibited at least six of 11 addiction symptoms such as skipping household chores or homework to play games, poor performance on tests of homework because of playing, and playing games to escape problems.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2009/04/65719049/1