Archive for the ‘Game Reviews’ Category

Viva Pinata : Trouble in Paradise

Originally published on XBOX.COM as Xbox Dad in Trouble … in Paradise
Published November 17, 2008
Hello … my name is Jason Buffington and my day job is in the Windows Storage Solutions team. On nights and weekends, I play as DarkJediHunter. This year, the other Xbox Dad (Festive Turkey) has been sharing this column with me, so [...]

November 17, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments

Naruto : Rise of the Ninja

Originally Published on XBOX.COM as Xbox Dad Goes All Ninja On Us
Published September 24, 2008
Hello … my name is Jason Buffington and my day job is in the Windows Storage Solutions team. On nights and weekends, I play as DarkJediHunter. This year, the other Xbox Dad (Festive Turkey) has been sharing this column with me, [...]

September 24, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments

What one Xbox Dad got for Father’s Day

This weekend was Fathers’ Day in the US – and I have three loving children (and a wife) who know that their daddy is an avid gamer.  So, I thought I would share what I got for Fathers’ Day as an XboxDad.  I did get some of the standard Fathers’ Day fare – clothes, including [...]

June 16, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Lifestyle, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments

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.  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

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. 

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

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

A version of this review also appeared under Xbox Dad column on Xbox.com
My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves – the Scene It?  Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360.  And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner.
The kit comes with four [...]

February 29, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads  No Comments

Viva Pinata : Party Animals

My sons are 9 & 7, and my daughter is 3.  And between the five of us (including my wife), we have 2 Xbox360’s, an Xbox, a Wii, a GameCube, 3 Nintendo DS’s, and 2 Gameboy’s – basically everything except Sony.  And we play together — a lot.
The original Viva Piñata (VP) is a great [...]

January 8, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids  No Comments