GamerParenting: Intro
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Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by
“So lemme introduce to you… the act we’ve known for all these years!”
Got kids? Do you miss having free time? Sleep? Do you wish you could spend more of your time playing games? Do you “make time” for games, rather than your spouse, when your kids are asleep? Are you planning ahead to introduce your child to the retro games and other favorites from your youth? Good news folks, Crispy Gamer has the 2nd issue of my GamerParenting column up and ready for reading. It’s the parenting column for hardcore gamers.
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Cary’s Top Five Video Game Villains
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by
A video game hero always has to have a bad guy or rival to fight. So here’s my top five favorite video game bad guys that I love to hate.
Cary’s Top Five Least Favorite Pac-Man Games
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by
I like Pac-Man a lot, so it would probably be hard for me to list my five favorite Pac games. Though games like Super Pac-Man, Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac-Man: Championship Edition, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Pix would probably be good contenders. But even though I’m a big Pac-Man fan, I’ll admit that some Pac games are REALLY bad. So for this list, here are my five least favorite Pac-Man games.
Guitar Hero DS Accessory Revealed!
Posted on March 19th, 2008 by
The Guitar Hero franchise has been an enormous success on consoles, but a lot of what makes it such a blast is grabbing the guitar controller and jammin’ away! So when the DS version – Guitar Hero: On Tour – was announced, the big question on everyone’s mind was: how will you control it? Well, today we found out how!
Korg brings a ‘Synth-sim’ to the DS!
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by
I love playing music on my DS. Even more than playing rhythm games I really connect with the opportunity to make up my own stuff. I completely ate up Jam Sessions and Rhythm & Notes, so when Korg announced they were producing a ‘game’ for the Nintendo DS based on one of their classic analog synths, I was thrilled and disappointed at once: thrilled about the prospects, and disappointed because it was only being released in Japan.
Arthur C. Clarke Dead at 90
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by
One of the great technology authors and visionaries, and someone who has had a huge impact on shaping technology fantasy and reality, has died. We mourn the loss at 90 years old of the great Arthur C. Clarke, perhaps best known as the author of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, but also associated with many other developments in science and science fiction.
The Onion Exposes Wii
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by
In a fit of journalistic daring-do the Onion newspaper has exposed the true danger posed by the Wii’s motion controlled sensitivity. It doesn’t teach our kids to kill, but it might teach them to mince. Sometimes satire is the best way to show how lame an argument truly is. “These games are a prissy little menace to our society,” said Linda Roberts, 35, a mother of three and founder of the group Parents Against Wii, which is suing Nintendo for $52 million in damages from two recent swattings.”
Review – Loki: Heroes of Mythology (PC)
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by
Everyone like a good hack & slash action-RPG with hordes of monsters to kill and loads of shiny loot to gather up, right? Must be so, since ever since Diablo games have come along with a very similar formula. Some – like Nox or especially Divine Divinity – actually feature deep RPG plots and characters along with intense click-action combat. But most games in the genre gave been content with emulating a very familiar recipe over and over again. Some such as Sacred remain deeply rooted in the fantasy genre, while others such as Silverfall or Titan Quest take players outside of the typical world of swords and sorcerers in an attempt to bring new things to the genre. Enter Loki, the next game in the genre with yet another new take on the ‘Diablo clone’ formula.
Choices and Consequences
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by
When my kids were in karate, the sensei used the STAR program from the Jefferson Center for Character Education, which stood for ‘Stop, Think, Act, and Review’. The program focused on take control over your destiny by taking responsibility for your actions. At this point my kids remember more about that program than they remember the karate moves they learned! We have integrated the same philosophy in our parenting, so they certainly understand that there are definite consequences to the actions they take. So based on the news of the past week, I bet you can already guess what story I am talking about. But you’d be wrong.
New DS game mixes Looney Toons and Elite Beat Agents!
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by
I had heard good things about Duck Amuck but hadn’t planned on buying until Cary wrote is typically awesome and overflowing review of the mini-games. Then I simply had to get it! And since then it has become a fave in our family – everyone has enjoyed it, but my younger son has taken complete hold of it … I don’t think I’ll ever get to play again. So while it is rare for me to get gaga over a game announcement that isn’t a PC RPG or FPS, this one has me shouting GIMME!
