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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by
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Retrospective: Aging Nicely or Turning To Vinegar?
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by
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 …
Ask GamerDad 5/9/08
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by
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?
Iron Mom! – Mother’s Day ’08
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by
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:
No, I won’t help you get Grand Theft Auto IV
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by
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.
Retro: The Oblivion Re-rating
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by
by Colleen Hannon, the Momgamer
Back in 2006 a role-playing game called Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released and it has the distinction of becoming one of the few games re-rated by the ESRB. It began as T-Teen and ended up as M-Mature. GamerDad.com was on top of it at the time – here’s what we said:
Brawling with Children
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by
Henry chose Kirby, I picked Mario, and Maggie settled on Samus from Metroid. I would have bet on Princess Peach because she’s still in a princess/girly phase (yeah, thanks Enchanted) – but then again, unbeknownst to her, Samus is also a girl underneath that armor. Equilibrium = maintained! The battlefield was on top of a fast moving jet or something. Kirby swallowed me and spit fire, Mario grew to an enormous size, and Samus curled into a little ball. We all just laughed, laughed, and button-mashed! more…
PSP Turns 3, Phones Home
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by
I had planned to do a sort of ‘happy birthday’ post for the PSP as it turned three years old (in the US, that is) at the end of March. But also during March I made use of my PSP along with some new software updates to do a variety of new things, and wanted to highlight the ever-growing usefulness of the device as a multipurpose device. So now you get a merged post that will do both!
Idol Thoughts: The Final Bore
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by
OK, so by now we know that the auditions we see aren’t what really happen in the early rounds, that not everyone sees the judges, that the producers push certain contestants, that the words the judges use are tailored to get a certain response from the audience, and most recently that the judges words are either prepared or scripted. No biggie …after all, this IS a reality show, not a singing contest.
Ratchet and Clank Retrospective
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by
Last week, on a whim I bought Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters for the PS2, so I figured I’d write a little bit about each game in the series.
