IN THE NEWS
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- 7/22
- 2010
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- Adventure Video May Help Kids Dodge Diabetes
- Agricultural Research
- In the action-packed video game “Escape From Diab,” kids break free from the evil, diabetes-inducing Kingdom of Diab by making wise food choices. The fast-paced, educational-yet-entertaining game is the work of Tom Baranowski, professor of pediatrics and specialist in behavioral nutrition, and colleagues at the ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His results from testing the video with 153 young volunteers should be ready to report later this year.
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- 7/22
- 2010
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- Video Games for Kids with Diabetes
- Diabetes Health
- The games mentioned so far, both old and new, set their sights on type 1 diabetics. Richard Buday's company, Archimage, is behind two recent projects--Escape from Diab and Nanoswarm: Invasion From Inner Space --targeting young people at risk for type 2 diabetes.
- View More: Video Games for Kids with Diabetes
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- 7/16
- 2010
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- Playnormous Enters White House / USDA Competition
- Apps for Healthy Kids
- Playnormous' newest game, Pyramid Pile Up Plus, has been entered into the Apps for Healthy Kids Competition, sponsored by Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and the USDA. Help support Archimage by voting for our game!
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- 7/5
- 2010
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- Diabetes and Games with a Theoretical Base
- NurseTim TUBE
- Patient education in the 21st century is looking very different than it did even 5 years ago. As we develop patient education activities for our students, we need to consider how these changes will affect their practice. From social networking to PDAs to video games, clients from all generations are looking in many different directions to find information to help them obtain optimal health.
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- 6/18
- 2010
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- Playnormous Fights Childhood Obesity
- Scripps Howard News Service
- For the makers of Playnormous, getting kids to stay healthy is child’s play. Seven years ago, a group of game developers in Houston were awarded $8 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop two middle school games to combat childhood obesity.
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- 6/15
- 2010
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- Teachers Get Active with Playnormous' iMacs
- Spring Branch ISD Snapshots
- As early as September 2009, Playnormous Health Games began giving away free iMac computers to qualified public and private school teachers and librarians nationwide who used the company's online video games promoting health.
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- 6/10
- 2010
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- Archimage Named Favorite Place on Google
- google.com
- Less than 1% of businesses across the country were recognized by Google as a "Favorite Place." Between December 1 and February 28, Archimage was one of the most popular local businesses on Google, as measured by how many times people found the business listing, and clicked on it for more information.
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- 3/10
- 2010
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- Surfing the Net with Kids
- The Boston Globe
- The food pyramid is a nutrition and activity guide published by the United States Department of Agriculture. It contains eight divisions: physical activity (represented by the person climbing the side of the pyramid), grains, vegetables, fruits, oils, milk, and meat and beans (representing all forms of lean protein.) Learn more at this week’s crop of freshly picked sites.
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- 12/9
- 2009
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- CSI Web Adventures Wins Outstanding Achievement Award in Teens Category
- Interactive Media Awards
- IMAs are awarded to web designers whose work increases the standards of excellence on the Internet. Archimage is a two-time IMA winner with a 2009 Outstanding Achievement award for CSI Web Adventures and a 2006 Best in Class award for the Escape from Diab website. Both are an extreme honor as only a handful of nominees win IMAs each year.
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- 11/3
- 2009
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- Playnormous Wins Merit Award in Health Promotion, Disease & Injury Prevention Information Category
- Web Health Awards
- The Web Health Awards recognize websites with the best health-related content for consumers and professionals. Archimage's online subsidiary Playnormous.com is a 2009 award winner in the Health Promotion, Disease & Injury Prevention Information category for successfully delivering accurate, quality health information for 0-12 year olds.
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- 10/28
- 2009
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- Interactive Technology: Playnormous
- The CW Channel 39 KIAH-TV
- It's a recipe for good health and for a unique Houston company, good health means good games for your kids. The story-boards and the funny looking characters are all part of the people behind Playnormous.com.
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- 8/31
- 2009
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- Using Gameplay Science to Change Lives
- Casual Connect Magazine
- In the official magazine for the Casual Games Association, Melanie Lazarus explains to game professionals how Archimage is creating casual games for health for the benefit of clients and the public at large.
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- 8/23
- 2009
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- Federal Stimulus Program a Windfall for Texas Higher Education
- Austin American-Statesman
- Two of three American adults are overweight or obese. Enter Tom Baranowski. Baranowski's award will allow him to work with Archimage Inc. of Houston on a video game in which, for example, a child might throw veggies off the table and declare, "Yuck. That's green stuff. I never eat green stuff."
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- 8/4
- 2009
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- Games For Health: The Latest Tool In The Medical Care Arsenal
- Health Affairs
- At the heart of any promising plan to transform the health care system lie two priorities: broader access to care for patients, and deeper engagement in health care by patients. Although the problem of expanding access to affordable care remains unresolved, new tools for deepening consumers’ engagement in healthcare are proliferating like viral spores in a virtual pond.
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