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Today is Father’s Day; regrettably, I don’t have a father to celebrate it with. However, I wish to take this moment to recognize all the fathers out there who are doing their best to give their children direction in a world where it is not always easy to find.

As this is a gaming blog, I was able to find some interesting information that pertained to fathers and gaming, some good, others not so much.

First, Barack Obama made an interesting speech regarding the role that parents should play in children’s immersion in entertainment culture. Gamepolitics has the excerpt point here, and Politico has the full speech here.

Sadly, not all the news relating to games and fathers is good. Gamepolitics also has a depressing report about a young father who was a gamer and lost his life while in Iraq. The Boston Globe has the full story here.

The war in Iraq, in my opinion, should have never been fought.

In some disturbing news, the Chicago Tribune reports on the decline of video game arcades here. Having gone to places such as Boomers, Grand Prix Race O’ Rama and other assorted hang outs when I was a kid, I can say that while they may be limited, there is still fun to be had in them. I love arcades; only real place where you can face time and meet random people, lol.

In more disturbing news, Jack Thompson might run for political office; Gamepolitics has the report here.

BAD IDEA, and that’s all I will say.