Family Game Night by Hasbro

FINALLY !!
Old fashioned family games — on Xbox!!
The classics — Yahtzee, Scrabble, Connect Four, Sorry, Battleship, and others…
This month, on Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade, Hasbro released a really cool shell, where you will find yourself in a game room.  On the game wall, you’ll find these and other classic Hasbro games, first available as [...]

April 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads, Games for Kids  No Comments

Crash of the Titans

In my opinion, Crash is one of the less appreciated kid-gaming characters out there.  Sure, we’ve all heard of Sonic and Mario, but Crash the Bandicoot?   Why not ?!
Crash of the Titans is the first Crash title that I’ve played (though my boys have played others) and I think I look forward to this [...]

March 15, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, highlights  No Comments

Dash of Destruction — Fun and Free Xbox Arcade game

Add a Dash of Giggles
Another Dash of Loud Laughter
Plus a Dash of “No, don’t eat my truck with your dinosaur“
That’s how you get a “Dash of Destruction” — and now you know what my house has sounded like since my sons and I downloaded this free Xbox Arcade title from the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Doritos ran [...]

December 30, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, News and Events  No Comments

Xbox Dad — where did you go?

It’s actually a rhetorical question — effective December 1st, Xbox.com has retired the ‘Xbox Dad’ persona/column on family gaming.

My sincerest thanks to the original Xbox Dad (Duncan) for sharing his column with me this year — and to the folks at Xbox.com for the opportunity to contribute. It was a great experience to have this outlet for my passion on video gaming with your children.

December 1, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Lifestyle, Xbox Dad archive from Xbox.com  No Comments

NXE is here – and my kids are loving the Avatars

Most of you know that aside from my vocational passion around Data Protection and Storage Solutions for Windows servers … my vice is video gaming, particularly with my family.  And in that vein, the kind folks at xbox.com have been letting me co-write about family games as XBOX DAD..

If you own an Xbox 360, you’ve [...]

November 18, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Lifestyle  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

XBOX DAD post — the power of Windows Home Server with an Xbox 360

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As you may have seen in some of my other gaming posts, I love it when my favorite things overlap – e.g. Star Wars and Video Games.
In this month’s Xbox Dad article, my Windows Home Server hooked up with my Xbox360 and effect was beautiful (literally), as my family photos and video, along with my [...]

June 5, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Lifestyle  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