Archive - 2008

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Today, Rare announced the all-new official Viva Piñata 2 Community site has launched. Players will then be able to upload photos of their gardens – along with their Piñata Vision cards - to the website and share them with the world.  read more »

Bringing parents, teachers, and students together, HotChalk.com puts students' assignments, teachers' lesson plans, and lots of educational media at your fingertips. Listen to Edward Fields, founder and CEO of HotChalk, and talk to your kids' teachers to find out whether they'll sign up.

I was told once by a friend that movie theme games were typically not the best when it comes to game play.  I can't say that I have experienced a lot of this first hand as the games we have typically purchased for the Wii have been titles around a sport or some of the standards (Wii Play, Wii Fit, Mario whatever, etc.).  When the opportunity to play the Wall-E game for the Wii arose, I approached it with a certain level of excitement as it represented something new to our game library.  read more »

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Let's face it: the Wii was made for Baseball. Pitch, swing, even run if someone added balance board support--everything but the hot dogs. But in a sport plagued with controversy, 2KSports has chosen to take a traditional approach, but therein lies the scandal. How does this play out?  read more »

Wall-eOkay, let me get this straight, I recently reviewed WALL-E video games for Sony’s PSP and PS3 gaming platforms and both versions bested me, and now you want me to review WALL-E for LeapFrog's Leapster2?  Wait, geared towards children ages 4 to 7… Gee I may actually have a chance.  read more »

DoraSeriously, you can’t have kids and not be familiar with Dora the Explorer and her very faithful companion Boots.  For those of you not in the know, Dora is a young Hispanic girl who goes on adventures with her best friend, Boots, who is a talking monkey who wears, well, red boots.  Dora and Boots have been a big part of the Nick Jr.  read more »

When Nikolai was around 3 years old, I began my fatherly duty of instilling in him a love for all things electronically gadgety, as any good father would, by convincing Tonya that he needed a Leapster from LeapFrog.  At first Tonya balked at my suggestion that he needed such a device to stay ahead of the curve, by citing that there is nothing wrong with reading books and playing with blocks to advance his mind.  But rather than backing down, I pressed the  read more »

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When I got the opportunity to review Guitar Hero Aerosmith, I was thrilled to finally have a chance to see what all of the Guitar Hero hubbub was about. Why was this game, which to the uninitiated player’s eyes is a rip-off of the 80s electronic “follow the blinking light” game Simon, so amazingly popular.

Why, because it’s really, really fun, of course.  read more »

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With two young boys who are keen on reading and math, the LeapFrog collection of toys, electronics, computer games, and videos have been a big part of Nik and Caleb’s Toy Box.  And each year, it is with great interest that Tonya and I, as their parents, check out the latest and greatest to come from the LeapFrog Lilly pad.  So with this year’s crop, my youngest, Caleb age 4, has agreed to put the latest two educational products, the Leapster2 and the  read more »

 

Sansa ClipNine Miles

My bicycle commute to work is about nine miles in each direction and between the traffic and the various hills I have to climb, it takes about 35 minutes. The Sansa Clip MP3 player makes the perfect companion.  read more »