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If you enjoyed the puzzles in Highlights magazine, you're going to love PopCap's Amazing Adventures: The Lost Tomb. read more » Feeding Frenzy is a one player game and just like popcap.com says "It's survival of the biggest". This game is 40 levels of fish chomping fun. I reviewed this game with my 7 year old son and his 10 year old (boy) cousin and they both enjoyed the game. We played the Mac version of the game on a MacBook, but it is also available on Windows and XBox 360. read more » Rating: 8 of 10 Come on down, but you don't get to keep the showcase. read more » Once there was a legendary warrior whose legendary Kung Fu skills were the stuff of legend... read more » My kids love to draw and paint, but they also love their computers, and Wacom, known for their drawing tablets, offers tablets in a variety of sizes and feature sets. While the more expensive ones appeal more to professional graphic artists and serious hobbyists, the Bamboo series make the digital art pad available to families on a budget ($79 and $99, the cheapest Wacom tablets ever). read more »
My name is Cheech and I am the school bus driiiiver... I have a bias for quirky, non-violent PC games. Most new games seem to be variations on the alphabet soup of established formats; FPSs, RTSs, RPGs and MMORPGs with the occasional casual puzzle game thrown in for "variety". The odds of finding an innovative, non-violent game are about as good as finding a vegetarian meal at a Brazilian grill. read more » 
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Adventure games have always been a haven for players wanting to avoid the more frenetic pace of side-scrollers, platformers, and first-person shooters. A lot of folks take this to mean that adventure games are also dull. Whatever else you may be able to say about the adventures from TellTaleGames.com, they’re never dull. Occasionally irritating? Sure. Silly? Frequently. Laugh-out-loud funny? Consistently.
There is a particular pleasure in playing a game which lets you interact with beloved characters. For that matter, even when the characters are obnoxious and annoying, it's sort of fun to interact with them. Telltale Games' new Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Episode 1 Homestar Ruiner offers you a chance to be a part of the strange, animated world of Homestar Runner. (
One of the better memories of my misspent youth was playing the Alien pinball machine at the arcade during my lunch breaks. On one particularly notable day I was on fire and couldn't miss a shot. I rolled the table and faced the tough choice of being late back to work or leaving a half-dozen credits on the game. In the end, I made the right choice. I'll leave it to you to work out what that was.