All posts tagged '... with Children'
Cary’s Favorite 2-D Side-Scrolling Beat ‘Em Ups
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Posted on September 7th, 2008 by
In honor of Castle Crashers being released on Xbox Live Arcade recently, I figured I’d list my favorite 2-D side-scrolling beat ‘em ups.
Game Review: SoulCalibur IV (360, PS3)
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by
PAX with Children
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by
I’ve gotten several emails and a comment here from people who want to attend PAX but have very small children. The advice I’d recently posted is aimed for the non-gamer parent who had been dragged through the doors by their teen/tween and didn’t know what to do.
My gang is way past the age of having to worry about, and my solution when they were that age was to stay home. That said, they were that age back in 1990 or so and things have changed a bit since then. I have some very general advice but I put out a call to some experts, the Penny Arcade Enforcers, and got a few pointers. more…
Gaming With Children: Vacation Edition
Posted on August 12th, 2008 by
I love getting to play games with my kids, or even watch each other play for a while. One of the best times for this is when we are on vacation, as we always seem to have dead time and plenty of travel time. So I had a grand time on our recent trip to Ontario - and although I focused more on reading books, there were three games in particular that we shared. more…
Civilization Revolution … with Children
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by
Civ? Me and Civ? Yeah, we go a long way back. I still recall the day, just prior to my career in gaming actually, when I stood in the store torn. Should I buy Quake? Or Sid Meier’s Civilization II. The one with the monsters and visceral thrills? Or the one with the pedigree, the elephant on the cover, and the one that looked fiercely, defiantly, and wonderfully beautiful and complex. I came home with both, I’m proud to say.
Convention Survival Kit for Parents
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by
It’s convention season again. Things are in high swing for the months of August and September. Here’s a few handy tips for parents who are just getting into this sort of thing from someone who’s been to way too many of these and lived to tell the tale.
Whether it’s a small-town game convention with just a couple thousand to the over 125,000 people who mobbed the San Diego Comic Con in 2007, there are a few things that always seem to come up in common. What do I do? How do I find out what’s going on? Don’t these people ever take a shower?
Game Review: We Ski (Wii)
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by
Battlefield: Bad Company
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by
Bad Company? I can’t deny it. I thought I was done with the Battlefield series of video games. I delighted in the WWII exploits of 1942 and played some BF: Viet Nam and BF2. When the series went futuristic I bowed out but something - probably the happy faced grenade pin - lured me back. I opened my mail and found the 360 version. “Fine, I’ll trade it maybe and get the PC version.” Wait… there is no PC version?
Guitar Hero: On Tour with Children
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by
I love music games and I love Guitar Hero but On Tour is just plain weird. Describing how it works takes far too many words so lets just say it does work, larger hands will have big problems, and the experience is only moderately satisfying. Put simply, the off-hand goes through a strap on a doohickey that fits into the GBA slot. Holding the DS like a book, the right hand clutches a stylus shaped like a guitar pick while the left hits the green, red, yellow, and blue buttons. Orange is missing, but that doesn’t mean going from Medium to Hard is any easier. The left screen shows the notes, the right screen shows guitar strings and you must strum and hit the buttons.
Boom Blox with Children
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by
It took a commercial. I’ve had Boom Blox sitting here and I’ve heard the game is good but for some reason, other game have gotten in the way during GamerFamily playtime. Then a commercial came on and I saw my wife’s reaction and smiled, saying: “Uh, I’ve got that one you know. . .” In it went and up we came, here’s a full report.
