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  • Family Game Recommendation — Cooking Mama

      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 —…

  • The best kids’ game that I know of — LEGO Star Wars

      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…

  • 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…

  • Family Game Recommendation — Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer

      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 do a lot of tag-teaming on 2-player games, where I play with…

  • Game Recommendation – Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

    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 controllers, each featuring a big button for fast “buzz-in”, as well…

  • I am going to miss HD DVD

    Farewell friend — we hardly knew ye. Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360, the format war is over. And that is a good thing. While we early adopters may have had to bet on two horses, mainstream consumers…