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Feel the thrill of the Takedown with Need for SpeedTM Hot Pursuit for the iPhone® and iPod® touch! For the first time ever in a Need for Speed game, you will be able to play as the cop on a full career mode that takes you through 24 Career Events. Start as a rookie and progress to the top of the ranks by collecting bounties.

LeKool Inc, publisher of browser-based games, is announcing the closed beta period for their newest title “Business Tycoon Online” set to begin on November 16, 2010 at 9:30PM EST (GMT-5). Business Tycoon Online is a game that puts players into the shoes of an entrepreneur that strives to create a successful business, and ultimately be the CEO and become a popular socialite.

Get in gear for the super-charged thrill of driving the world’s hottest cars and the flat-out fun of arcade-style racing!

Access awesome custom features like the Camera Tag Editor. Snap images with the built-in camera and plaster racing environments with your personal tag. DSi-driven touch controls give you the feel of real racing, too. Push it to the limit in up to 18 supercars like the Pagani Zonda R, Porsche Carrera GT, and Lamborghini Gallardo. Also set your siren off in the exclusive Super Pursuit Mode that lets you drive as the Cop! Lay down the law in up to 6 never-before-driven police cars, including the Hummer H2 SUT.

Chase or be chased through 16 totally detailed tracks. Factor in the tracks that you can reverse, and you get nearly 30 amazing runs! Accelerate through 3 streamlined tiers as you pull off extraordinary maneuvers, win awards, and blow away up to 3 friends in local multiplayer mode. Feed your need for speed like never before on DSi!

Anticipated Action Racing Game To Go On Sale The Same Day

Fast-tracking electro hip hop act Chiddy Bang (with DJ Skeet Skeet) will headline the launch of EA's critically acclaimed action racing gaming, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit http://www.needforspeed.com, Tuesday, November 16 at Avalon in Los Angeles.

Chiddy Bang - whose music is featured in the adrenal "race or chase" video game - is suddenly exploding on the music scene and in the media. The Phili duo was MTV's "Pushed" artist of the week in late October, when the act was also a Twitter "trending" topic.

A new study on gaming and health in adolescents, conducted by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, found some significant gender differences linked to gaming as well as important health risks associated with problematic gaming. Published today in the journal Pediatrics, the study is among the first and largest to examine possible health links to gaming and problematic gaming in a community sample of adolescents.

Rani Desai, associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology and public health at Yale, and colleagues anonymously surveyed 4,028 adolescents about their gaming, problems associated with gaming and other health behaviors.