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Submission + - Best Adventure Game to start with? 8

Submitted by canolecaptain on Monday June 06, 2011 @01:09PM

canolecaptain writes: One of my daughters (10) has become interested in adventure games, and started playing Fate. It's been awhile since I've had time to play this type of game (since the Diablo 2 days), and I'd like to know what slashdotters thought would be the best set of adventure games to start her on (PC preferred). Nothing too scary yet, so unfortunately, Diablo is out for the time being.
I'd prefer one with multi-player so that we could quest together on ocassion.

Aquarium Uses Eel Powered Christmas Lights 96

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 02, 2010 @12:30PM from the slippery-tinsel dept.

A Japanese aquarium is using the greenest energy possible to power the lights on its Christmas tree, an electric eel. From the article: "Each time the eel moves, two aluminum panels gather enough electricity to light up the 2-meter (6 ft 6 in) tall tree, decked out in white, in glowing intermittent flashes."

Submission + - Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break (gamepron.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @07:38AM

UgLyPuNk writes: A group of inmates at the Huai’an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they’d had enough of the “monotonous work and intensive training”. Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it. The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town – but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically-dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare.

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