On April 1, five teenage girls, from Ravenna, Ohio, decided to play a general prank. They made cardboard replicas of the "question mark" boxes which all players know are to be hit for coins / points. Seventeen of these replicas were then hung around town, pretty good work at that, as the photographs show. We dont know what kind or reaction the girls expected, but it certainly could not be anything like the one they got. Residents were convinced that the suspicious packages contained explosive devices or something similar to wipe out their little community and called in the bomb squad. Kind of funny that terrorists would actually go through the trouble of getting a bomb and then highlight it by putting it out in gift wrapped paper, where every one would be sure to look. The boxes were wrapped in gold wrapping paper with question marks spray painted on them. The Bomb squad said that they even checked for radiation and chemical warfare agents, none of which were detected.

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The extremely popular Metal Slug is all set to appear on the PSP. It has been 10 years since the initial appearance of the original game and to commemorate the occassion, SNK is coming out with a special collection for the PSP. The Metal Slug Collection will include six games all together - the original Metal Slug, of course, plus Metal Slugs 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Metal Slug X. According to SNK, you can expect "perfect translations" of the arcade classic, and a Wi-Fi two player mode.

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Well, while authorities are still lax to crack down on people who are modifying their personal game players, they are certainly getting stringent on folks who do this for a living. Modifying game consoles or "chipping" is a criminal offence and so is the mere posession of the same says Michael Rawlinson, the deputy director of ELSPA (A British trade organisation). David Hoang, who was found to be guilty thanks to the help given to police by ELSPA has been prosecuted for handling stolen goods, and for having modified game console chips. His total sentence comes to about 18 months.

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For once, no one will be able to blame video games for wasting productive time. Re-Mission, the name of the game has been proved to help young people with cancer. The game is available free of charge to young people with cancer concurrent with the release of positive results from the Re-Mission Outcomes Study. The study is the first-ever randomized, controlled trial focused exclusively on adolescents and young adults with cancer. Data from the study showed statistically significant improvements in cancer-related self-efficacy, social quality of life, cancer-specific knowledge, and adherence to prescribed medication regimens in patients who played Re-Mission.

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