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iPad gaming update for July 10, 2011

The iPad gaming update is Gamertell’s weekly look at the previous week’s iPad games released in the Apple App Store. We cover them all – good and not so good. The list is available every Monday, right as you are about to start that long work week.

iPad owners, are you ready to purchase another iPad this year!? According to many tech sites, you might be! If the rumors hold true, an “HD” version of the iPad 2 will be out sometime around September through November. What that means is, if you invested in an iPad 2 already you might be stuck with an obsolete model less then six months old. How do you feel about that? Doesn’t matter, Apple will do what they do. First things first, before we gather torches and pitch forks, let’s look at this week’s game releases…

How To: Organize a Halloween video game marathon

While watching horror movies on Halloween is a perfectly acceptable way to celebrate the holiday, it’s also a hands off approach. You’re a spectator, not an active participant in the action. You could always go out to a good haunted house, but those can be far away and quite expensive. Perhaps the best approach would be to gather a handful of your closest friends and have a horrific video game marathon. The beauty with the horror game marathon is that it has the thrills and occasional scares of a horror movie marathon, but also the excitement and personal involvement of a haunted house.

Here’s how to set it up right. Invite only a handful of people over. A number between three and five is perfect, but anymore than seven and it may not be as frightening. Where ever you’ll all be playing the games will have to be dark, save for the light of the television screen. A few candles wouldn’t hurt as well, but make sure they’re set up so they don’t drip, cause a mess or perhaps burn your place down. If anyone has to leave the room, set it up where there are no other lights on, and they have to take a flickering, ready to burn out flashlight, to light their way.

If you have enough time, you can also set up some optional decorations…

Swedish teen suffers seizure after 24-hour World of Warcraft: Lich King marathon

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has been out for less than a week and it seems the expansion has already claimed its first official casualty.

Right off the heels of a European gamer reaching level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King in 27 hours, Kotaku reports that a 15-year-old boy from Sweden suffered an epileptic seizure after playing Wrath of the Lich King for 24 hours straight.

According to the boy’s doctors, his bodily functions had been…

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