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		<title>Q Racer Free for a Limited Time</title>
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Great news Q Racer fans. We&#8217;ve decided that we want to get Q Racer into as many hands as possible so we&#8217;re offering it FREE for a limited time. That&#8217;s right! It costs you ZERO dollars and you get the full version. Act quick and download your copy now&#8230;before we change our minds  
As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q Racer Version 1.1 Now Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news Q Racer fans! Apple has approved and released our 1st update for Q Racer. This is an exciting update that includes:

Game Center Achievements: Now you can login using Game Center and see how many achievements you can master.
Updates to Lists: Updated the U.S. Senators, U.S. State and Territories Governors, and Important People in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2011/02/q-racer-version-1-1-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Q Racer Featured on Serious Games Market</title>
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The fine folks over at Serious Games Market were kind enough to feature Q Racer in a blog post called &#8220;iPad and iPhone helping to create a Learning Ecosystem.&#8221;  If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the term &#8220;serious game&#8221; it&#8217;s defined  according to wikipedia as:
A game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The &#8220;serious&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2011/01/q-racer-featured-on-serious-games-market/</link>
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		<title>Q Racer Now Available in App Store</title>
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It&#8217;s been a long journey for us here at Hug a Panda, but we are now very happy to announce the release of our first iPhone game, Q Racer!

You can find more about the game on our Q Racer game page.  Or you can just check out Q Racer on iTunes&#8230;and hopefully open up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/12/q-racer-now-available-in-app-store/</link>
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		<title>15 Educational iPhone Games for Adults</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve complained in the past about the lack of educational games choices for adults.  It seemed to me that once you pass 5 years old that your educational game choices disappear.  However after digging around a little bit it turns out there are some pretty decent choices out there (in addition to Q Racer of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/05/15-educational-iphone-games-for-adults/</link>
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		<title>Learn Anything in 2 Minutes with Q Racer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you guys aren&#8217;t familiar, Pimsleur is a language learning methodology and system.  It was developed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur who studied how people learned languages.  His research led to his theory of graduated recall which basically said that not only was repetition important for memorizing vocabulary, but equally important is at what time intervals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/04/learn-anything-in-2-minutes-with-q-racer/</link>
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		<title>Educational Gaming&#8217;s Place in the Apple App Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Techcrunch featured an article on a report by Distimo (a mobile phone analytics company) which showed how different categories of games performs in Apple&#8217;s App Store.  The bottom line is that Action, Adventure, and Arcade games seem to sell the most.  Since I wouldn&#8217;t classify Q Racer as Action, Adventure, or Arcade&#8230;This got me thinking&#8230;how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/02/educational-gamings-place-in-the-apple-app-store/</link>
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		<title>Educational Games Gone Oh So Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we are working on an educational game (Q Racer) I&#8217;m always curious to see what other educational games have to offer.  I&#8217;ve complained about past educational games before (normally for their lack of fun) so I&#8217;m always on the look out for the truly innovative educational games.
Here are two gems I found courtesy of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/02/educational-games-gone-oh-so-bad/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Ad Network Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been looking into supporting our game via the &#8220;freemium&#8221; model so we started looking into putting ads into our game.   As cool as it sounds figuring out which ad network to use and how exactly ads work was a little daunting so I started researching all the different networks and compiling any articles or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugapanda.com/blog/2010/02/mobile-ad-network-research/</link>
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		<title>Q Racer World Battle and the Digital Media Learning Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, the Digital Media Learning Competition is an annual competition started in 2007 funded by the government and other non-profit organizations (HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation) to award grants to help individuals and organizations come up with &#8220;the most novel uses of new media in support of learning.&#8221;
This year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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