Archive for March, 2008

Cooking Mama for Wii

For those of you who follow my gaming recommendations, you’ve heard lots about my two sons, ages 7 and 9 — and the games that we play together.В  But there are two other gamers in my family, whose ages are 3 and 29-and-holding — and their favorite pastime right now is Cooking Mama — for [...]

March 25, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  No Comments

LEGO Star Wars – the best kids’ game that I know of

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These have been out for a while, so this recommendation is a little late — but as I have been telling folks about it for a while, I wanted to get this in print.
The first release, LEGO Star Wars, was actually for the last generation of gaming consoles — and covered the first three movies [...]

March 24, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  One Comment

Co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons has died — Gary Gygax 1938-2008

source : http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885383-7.html?tag=nefd.only
Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday at the age of 69, due to heart problems.
I never met Gary nor have I been to a D&D convention – and I think the last time that I rolled a 20-sided dice was in junior high school.
However, some of my favorite Xbox360 [...]

March 4, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer

A version of this review appeared on XBOX.COM under Xbox Dad colum “Fantatic Four – Fantastic Game”
My sons are 7 and 9 — and we are routinely looking for 3-player games.В 

We’ve done party games like Viva Pinata : Party Animals, as well as Fuzion Frenzy2.
We have games on our Nintendo GameCube and Wii.
And we currently [...]

March 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments