GamerDad looks at a mention from 2005:In an article titled: Keeping Kids Safe, Online & Off the Washington Post, with help from PCWorld Magazine, recommend several parent friendly game review sites. All are recommended with “reservations” except for, yes, you guessed it. Here’s a quote: more…
I have never been big into cell phone games, but my kids love them. I had an AT&T ‘Go Phone’ when I first started this new job since I couldn’t have a camera, and needed a cell since the family was 400 miles away. When I got my new phone, I gave the AT&T to my younger son, and my boys quickly discovered that it came with a bunch of games! Verizon loads their phones with exactly zero, so my older son was jealous.
What does it say when the best part of the show featuring ‘the top three of the most talented season ever’ is a rocker doing a take on a 35-year old version of an even older ballad? What does it say when the biggest surprise of that same show is that Paula actually said something blunt and negative to a contestant? It says that American Idol has degraded into a parody of whatever positive qualities it once had.
I’ve gotten a flurry of email from friends, colleagues, a VIP or two, PR reps, and readers over the preceding announcement. Here’s the gist: What They Like Inc. bought the bulk of the GamerDad review archive and are going to repurpose it for their more sober format. I “sold out” for two reasons but let me tell you the story – from my perspective – first. Let me start by saying, after a near-death experience and on the 5 year anniversary, I can’t tell you how happy I am to be writing about all of this! more…
WHAT THEY LIKE, INC. ACQUIRES GAMERDAD VIDEO GAME REVIEW ARCHIVE FOR WHAT THEY PLAY
New Content Fortifies What They Play’s Substantial Offerings; Expands Internet’s Most Comprehensive Resource for Parents About Video Games
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After trying to keep pace with releases in multiple genres on multiple platforms through the fall and winter of last year, I thought I had burned myself out. In one way I had – I was burned out on playing games I didn’t want to play in genres I really didn’t like. That doesn’t mean that they were all bad games, just that they weren’t anything I really wanted to play. Fortunately I didn’t burn out on replaying games or trying games I had missed through the years. So instead of continuing to push myself to play games I didn’t want to play, I have taken a step back and started smelling the glorious flowers of games and genres I love …
Taiko drums have had a long history in Japanese culture as they are used in festivals, parades, and even during times of war. You’ve probably seen a Taiko drum before and not even known it. They look like a big barrel tipped on its side. Lately, Taiko drums have appeared in a series of popular music/rhythm video games from Namco. First in the arcade, Taiko no Tatsujin (Taiko Drum Master) has since been on home consoles, with the latest one being a sequel on the Nintendo DS. That’s the name of it up there in the title, but since it’s such a mouthful, from here on out we’re just going to call it Taiko DS 2.
May 9th’s Ask GamerDad is up and running at WhatTheyPlay. Go on, read this one and learn, among other things, how GamerDad is ruining the lives of teenagers everywhere! Um… mwuhahaha?
Linda declined Breakfast-in-Bed, which is a good thing because the one time we did that the kids got all the breakfast (and juice ended up on the stairs). So, I got up with the kids despite insomnia last night and we dutifully waited until 8:30am. 8:30am is what Linda and I call “sleepin’ in late” because our lovely Henry – apple of our eyes – likes to get up between 5am and 6:30am. (Really, he’s lucky to still be alive!) Anyway, here’s our Mom’s Day Adventure:
CrispyGamer has the latest issue of my GamerParenting column and in it I sort of go nuts reacting to the deluge of emails I got over Grand Theft Auto IV. Lots of articulate teens want to play this game, the game is fantastic, but I really think parents need to tread carefully with this one. It’s a very mature game in every sense of the term. It pushes the envelope with the violence, the sexual situations, the storyline, the gambling, drinking, drug use, mayhem, car jacking and . . . oops, sorry, to a teen pining for this one, I bet that stung a bit.
