Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
Dairojo Samurai Defenders is a downloadable tower defense style game for DSi. The game is set in Japan’s Edo historic period, and enemy troops are marching along the path to destroy your castle. Strategically place your own troops along the road to defeat the waves of invaders to protect your castle. If enough of the enemy reaches your castle, it’s Game Over.
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Posted on January 14th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
In this game, you’re already dead at the start. As a ghost, you don’t remember who you were or why you died. And your only lead is a lady who gets killed soon after you did. You quickly learn that you have special powers as a ghost. You can possess and manipulate nearby objects, and even rewind time four minutes after someone other than yourself had died. Now it’s up to you to use your ghost powers to save lives and unravel the mystery of your death!
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Posted on January 11th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
I’ve never played a Disgaea game before, as strategy RPGs just aren’t my cup of tea. But thanks to my friends who do enjoy NIS’ signature series, I am pretty familiar with the characters. One of their more popular stars are the hapless Prinnnies. They’re little demons who look like penguins, and in the Disgaea games they act as expendable pawns, ready to explode at a moment’s notice. And they say “Dood” a lot. A while back, Prinnies got their own game: a quirky yet tough as nails 2-D platformer on the PSP. And now they’re ready to follow up with a sequel available on UMD or downloadable on PSN.
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Posted on January 10th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
If you know a kid who enjoys watching Mythbusters on TV, doing science experiments, or just loves learning about the subject in general, then Dreamcatcher has a DS game for you. In Learn Science, your little lab rat will play mini-games based on experiments and principles in multiple fields of science.
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Posted on January 9th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
Touchmaster started out as a series of touch-based arcade games usually found in bars. They’ve ported over some as collections on the DS, though I’m not sure if ALL of them are from the arcade or if they made some up for the home version. I have them all on the DS, as I do like the casual puzzle fare these titles offer. Touchmaster Connect is the fourth in the series, so as I always do, here’s a rundown of all the games you can play on it!
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Posted on January 8th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
Ghost Mania is a falling block puzzle game downloadable on the Wii. The rules are simple. Colored blocks are arranged at the bottom and top of the well, and you can shift around the ones on the top, like in Tetris Attack or Puzzle League. You can then drop two at a time onto the playfield. Same colored blocks will merge together, so you want to match blocks when you can. When you drop a special colored jewel piece, blocks of that same color adjacent to it will disappear and you’ll get points, similar to Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo.
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Posted on January 7th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
Many people’s New Year’s resolutions involve losing weight and exercising more. Now you can have some help keeping that resolution with EA Sports Active 2 for Nintendo Wii, Xbox Kinect, and PlayStation Move (Wii version reviewed here).
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Posted on January 5th, 2011 by Cary Woodham
One of the things I got for Christmas was a wall calendar with a different classic Atari game each month. Fits my personality pretty well, I think, and I hung it up at work. It reminded me that a few months ago, they released an Atari Greatest Hits collection on DS. I didn’t buy it right away because it was 30 bucks, but I saw it recently for around 20, so I snagged it. So here’s a rundown on what’s on Atari’s Greatest Hits vol. 1 for DS!
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Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Cary Woodham
Happy New Year! And in honor of that, here’s a blog about the games I’m looking forward to in 2011! Now keep in mind that this list reflects my tastes in games, so it may seem a little weird to some. Also, this isn’t a complete list because there’s probably a bunch of games in 2011 that haven’t been announced yet. Consider that this time last year; we didn’t even know that there would be a new Kirby game on the Wii by the end of the year, for instance. Anyway, here are the games I’m looking forward to in 2011.
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Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Cary Woodham
The Gaylord Texan is a huge hotel in Grapevine, TX (a suburb of Dallas). Every year they have an ice sculpture exhibit, and this year it featured the TV favorite A Charlie Brown Christmas. I know it’s a little late to do anything Christmas-ey, but we decided to go to it after Christmas during the day when I was off work so it would be less crowded. It was pretty amazing, and I took a bunch of pictures. Click and read on to see them!
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Dairojo Samurai Defenders is a downloadable tower defense style game for DSi. The game is set in Japan’s Edo historic period, and enemy troops are marching along the path to destroy your castle. Strategically place your own troops along the road to defeat the waves of invaders to protect your castle. If enough of the enemy reaches your castle, it’s Game Over.
