The Games of The Dreamcast Collection (360)

Since I love game collections and enjoy writing blogs about them, here’s one about the Sega Dreamcast Collection for Xbox 360. It’s not the best collection in the world, and I certainly would not pay full price for it. But I found it recently on Amazon for 15 bucks, so I decided to snag it then. So here are all the games on it!

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Mars Table Blasts Off on Pinball FX 2

There’s a new downloadable Pinball FX 2 table about to blast off onto your Xbox 360! “Mars” has a space motif, with a futuristic mission to Mars theme complete with spaceships, ancient Mars civilizations, and cute little ball-saving robots!

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Game Review: LEGO Battles: Ninjago (DS)

Ninjago is a new LEGO toy line that includes playsets, cards, and spinners so your little ninja LEGO dudes can spin into battle. There are similarities between it and collectible card games and battle top games like BeyBlade. Now ninja fans can enjoy hours and hours of battles on their DS with LEGO Battles: Ninjago. It’s a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) featuring LEGO ninjas as they try to stop the Skeleton Army from acquiring legendary weapons of power!

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Game Review: Squinkies (DS)

Squinkies is a popular toy line for girls, which includes cutesy collectible miniature critters that are soft and squishy. They come with playsets and other goodies, and now they have their own video game on the Nintendo DS. Choose to be one of three Squinkies princesses as you rescue your hidden Squinkie friends.

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Cary’s Favorite Video Game Villains

In less than a week as of this writing, one of the most highly anticipated sequels of this game generation will be released. And while I’m looking forward to the creative puzzle action gameplay of Portal 2, honestly what I can’t wait to see and hear is the hilarious shenanigans of Portal’s antagonist: the evil computer GlaDOS. GlaDOS quickly became one of my favorite video game villains after playing the first Portal, and that got me to thinking about other great video game bad guys. So in this blog, I’m going to list my favorite video game villains.

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Game Review: Country Dance (Wii)

If you like country music, now’s your chance to boot scoot on the Wii with some of the most popular country songs. In Country Dance, hold the Wii remote and move it up, down, side to side, and around in circles in time with the beat, using picture cues on the bottom of the screen. The fewer misses you have and moves that are closer to the beat by the end of the song will boost your score. Kick up your boots with more than two dozen hit tunes.

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Game Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PSP)

The Legend of Heroes from Falcom is a popular RPG series in Japan. Now XSEED is bringing them to the US with The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PSP. Join Estelle and Joshua, two young trainees in the Bracer Guild as they take jobs and go on quests to help people. Along the way they’ll team up with some memorable adventurers and maybe even save the world in the process.

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The Games of Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 2 (DS)

I love arcade game collections, so whenever one comes out, I like to write about it in a blog. So here’s a list of all the games found in the recently released Atari’s Greatest Hits: Vol. 2 for DS. The title is still misleading, as there are more 2600 games on here than arcade games. But at least Vol. 2 is only 20 bucks. The first volume started at 30, but now it’s 20 bucks as well.

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Game Review: Zhu Zhu Puppies (DS)

The popular line of Zhu Zhu Pets toys are going to the dogs…literally! First it was scurrying hamsters, then wild animals, and now puppies! Now your kids can play with and take care of their own puppy with Zhu Zhu Puppies on Nintendo DS.

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Game Review: Tomb Raider Trilogy (PS3)

Tomb Raider Trilogy combines three of the most recent games in the Tomb Raider series: Anniversary, Legends, and Underworld. Tomb Raider Anniversary and Tomb Raider Legends have been given an HD makeover for the PS3, and the trilogy also includes bonuses like a PS3 background theme, outfits for your PlayStation Home avatars, behind the scenes videos, and other goodies.

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