Happy Wars – Battles for the whole family
Happy Wars on Xbox Live Arcade may be the cleverest and cutest game that you haven’t tried with your gamer-kids. This review, like the game itself, will jump right into the middle of it: it is a game about constant battles of swords, axes, clubs and magic. You’ll be battling within a few seconds of [...]
March 10, 2013
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 13-17, Ages 6-9, Dungeons & Dragons, Mom loves it too · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
Green Lantern Rise of the Manhunters
This is a great co-op game for youth and a movie tie-in … with one exception, the language.In general, there appear to be four types of super-hero (with/without movie tie-ins) games: Single-Player greats – like Rocksteady’s Batman:Arkham Asylum and Arkham City titles Single-Player mediocres – too many to count, but almost every movie gets one [...]
January 21, 2012
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Movie-Tie-In's, SuperHeroes · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
Kinectimals for Windows Phone
This month, Kinectimals for Windows Phone 7 was released — with more great reasons to visit the island of Lemuria. Depending on how you count it, this is the third offering in the Kinectimals line, including: The original Xbox 360/Kinect game (K/360) — see original review Its recent add-on for Bears (K/bears) — see last [...]
November 12, 2011
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, Kinect, Kinectimals, Windows Phone · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
Kinectimals – now with Bears !
If you haven’t gotten Kinectimals yet — go get it because you now have even more reasons to. It has Bears! Check out my review of the original Kinectimals. Kinectimals is back! Nearly a year since the original release as a launch title for Kinect, the folks at Microsoft Game Studios and Frontier have released [...]
October 15, 2011
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Tags: Add-on DLC, Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, Kinect, Kinectimals, Xbox, Xbox Live · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads
Kinectimals is the best launch title for Kinect, period
In my opinion, the range of motion-enabled Kinect titles fall into five distinct categories: Fitness — these are great and there are several to choose from between initial releases and upcoming titles. Most do body sensing, provide a trainer silhouette to take you through rigorous training programs, etc. Dance — not really my speed, but [...]
November 15, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, Kinect, Kinectimals, Xbox · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
Yes, there is a Video Game belt-loop for Cub Scouts
If you are reading my gaming blog, then you know that I am a Gamer and a Dad (hence XboxDad.com). What you may not know is that I am also an active Cubmaster for one of my son’s Cub Scout Pack and an Assistant Scoutmaster for my other son’s Boy Scout Troop, and I was [...]
May 7, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, Scouting · Posted in: Lifestyle
Pokemon: Additional PokeWalker route for special Pikachu
Just in case you put aside the PokeWalker (pedometer) that came with your HeartGold or SoulSilver Pokemon game, you now have a new reason to get it back out. First and foremost, this is a really clever extension to the game. In the games, you can walk around with a Pokemon and it impacts their [...]
April 12, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Pokemon · Posted in: Games for Kids, News and Events
Cars : Race-O-Rama
If you liked the first Cars game from Disney and THQ, then you ought to really, really like this one. If you didn’t (but did like the movie), then you should still probably give this game a shot. Cars Race O Rama took the better parts of the original game and made them so much [...]
January 8, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, Cars · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads
A Kingdom for Keflings on Xbox Live Arcade (and on-sale thru Jan.10)
This is a really clever game that has captured my family’s heart. In fact, I think that it is the only game that I have ever purchased twice. We have two Xbox 360’s and it allows my kids and I to collaborate. Kingdom for Keflings was one of the first Xbox Live games to use [...]
January 5, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Kingdom for Keflings, Xbox Arcade, Xbox Live · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
LEGO Rock Band
A big hat’s off and ‘thank you’ to the folks at LEGO and MTV/Harmonix for a great game in LEGO: Rock Band For those that have read my blog before, you know that I am a fan of all of the Lego titles, including Batman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Battles. And I have been [...]
January 4, 2010
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Tags: Ages 10-12, Ages 6-9, LEGO, Mom loves it too, Music · Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids
