Game Review: Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures: Episode 2: The Last Resort (PC, Xbox LIVE)
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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by
When Wallace and Gromit’s seaside holiday plans get rained out, they make the best of the situation by turning their flooded basement into an indoor beach resort and invite their neighborhood guests for a rainy day holiday. Little do they know that their resort is about to become the scene of a murder! Well, OK, it’s a family game, there is no murder! But someone does get bonked on the noggin for a bit of temporary amnesia, and it’s up to inventor Wallace to use his Detect-O-Matic (with a little help from his clue-sniffing pup Gromit), to solve the case and find out whodunit!
Adventures in Green Dining – Mother’s Day DS Lite
Posted on May 7th, 2009 by
Spring is in the air, and Nintendo has just released a new color of the DS Lite to match. When I first saw photos, the bright spring green color cried out to me (Half my wardrobe, and often my hair, is green.) Conveniently released a week before Mother’s Day, the new DS Lite comes with the Personal Trainer: Cooking cartridge and a nice floral patterned canvas carrying case. At first glance, it looks like a great Mother’s Day present for my wife, until I realized that it might come across as a glorified cookbook. I’ve been married long enough to know better than to get my wife a cookbook for Mother’s Day. Perhaps I have a better idea…
Happy “Mama’s” Day!
Posted on May 5th, 2009 by
In honor of Mother’s Day coming up this next weekend (you didn’t forget, did you?), I thought I’d do a blog about one of video games most famous mothers: Cooking (and now Gardening) Mama. Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s get cooking!
Game Review: Crayola: Colorful Journey (Wii)
Posted on April 28th, 2009 by
Twins Fillup and Violet are about to embark on a colorful adventure. After being sucked into a magical coloring book, they soon discover that some mean ol’ Gobble-ins are stealing all the colors! Now it’s up to the twins and their dog Spot to use their magic crayons to solve puzzles and bring color back to the world!
Game Review: 101 in 1 – Explosive Megamix (DS)
Posted on April 27th, 2009 by
101 in 1, the name says it all. This title, published in the US by Atlus, is a large collection of games all on one cartridge. As a budget-priced title, this makes it one of the cost effective titles around in terms of price per game. But are the games worth even that much? Well, some are and some aren’t. Where you stand on each of those categories determines if this game is right for you.
The Games (And Some Characters) of Samurai Shodown Anthology
Posted on April 25th, 2009 by
Recently I picked up Samurai Shodown Anthology, a collection of SNK’s series of 2-D one on one fighters. It’s available for Wii, PSP, and PS2 I believe. I got the PS2 version because it was only 15 bucks. And as I always like to do with these things, here’s a blog detailing the games on this collection (SS 1 through 6), plus a little info on the series and my favorite characters.
Tinkerbell with GamerGirl
Posted on April 20th, 2009 by
GamerGirl is 9 today! Let’s check in with her and see what she thinks about that Tinkerbell game from Disney!
Game Review: Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity (Wii, DS)
Posted on April 18th, 2009 by
Professor Heinz Wolff is an accomplished scientist who was one the head of the European unmanned Space Commission and inventor of the term Bioengineering. And now he’s got his own puzzle game named after him. I’m not sure why his name is tacked onto this physics based puzzler (plus I’ve never heard of the guy before), but at least his game is pretty entertaining.
Game Review: Mario Power Tennis (Wii Controls)
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by
Nintendo has taken going green to new heights. No, I don’t mean Luigi is now the company spokesperson, they’re now recycling games! They’ve taken the old GameCube game, Mario Power Tennis, and reprogrammed it to work with the Wii controllers. How well does it work? Pretty darn well. Read on for more details.
Club Penguin Elite Penguin Force (DS) with GamerGirl
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by
In an effort to save $5 a month yet still quell my daughter’s growing obsession with these colorful seabirds, I bought her the Club Penguin DS game. Lets hear what she thinks of it. Double-Click to watch it bigger at YouTube
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