The internet is now just a little bit safer for children playing online games, thanks to the efforts of seven major game publishers and the New York Attorney General's office to purge the online accounts of registered sex offenders.

"Operation: Game Over," the nickname of the initiative by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, used the New York sex offender rolls and compared them to the list of online video game accounts of Blizzard, Disney, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros., Microsoft, Sony and Apple. More than 3,500 accounts were successfully removed from the game companies' databases.

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Apple's new iPad has started hitting the hands of early adopters and hipsters alike, and it sports a Retina display screen among other features. "But what can I use all those pixels for?" you might wonder. Fortunately, several games have already updated for iPad Retina Display support.

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