{"id":2440,"date":"2009-05-24T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T03:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2009-05-24T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T03:50:53","slug":"this-week-in-games-may-24-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/this-week-in-games-may-24-30\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Games: May 24 &#8211; 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/infamous.jpg\" alt=\"infamous\" title=\"infamous\" width=\"100\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2442\" \/>Happy Memorial Day to one and all &#8211; and I hope everyone has taken a moment to appreciate some veterans!  This week has one highly anticipated release &#8230; and other stuff.  The big release is <strong>Infamous<\/strong> for the PS3, and the only other one of note is the sequel to the awful PSP game <strong>Astonishia Story<\/strong>, called <strong>Crimson Gem Saga<\/strong>.  The early looks seem decent and the developers have been distancing themselves from the original, so perhaps there is hope.Check out the list!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/360.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1365\" title=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/360.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damnation\n<\/li>\n<li>Wallace &#038; Gromit Episode 2: The Last Resort\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1366\" title=\"ps3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>inFamous\n<\/li>\n<li>Damnation\n<\/li>\n<li>Trash Panic\n<\/li>\n<li>Cross Edge\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wii.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1367\" title=\"wii\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wii.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Munchables\n<\/li>\n<li>Space Camp\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1368\" title=\"ps2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secret Agent Clank\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/psp.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1369\" title=\"psp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/psp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crimson Gem Saga\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1370\" title=\"ds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ds.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space Camp\n<\/li>\n<li>Personal Trainer: Walking\n<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Bravo: Date-O-Rama!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1371\" title=\"pc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damnation\n<\/li>\n<li>Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships\n<\/li>\n<li>Hinterland: Orc Lords\n<\/li>\n<li>Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper\n<\/li>\n<li>DragonSky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for last week &#8230; the cover game<strong>Punch Out<\/strong> and the other big Wii release <strong>Boom Blox Bash Party <\/strong> are both gettig solid reviews.  The other big releases &#8211; the multiplatform games Terminator Salvation and Bionic Commando &#8211; and getting mixed to poor reviews.  My favorite new game is the remake of the PC classic  <strong>Jagged Alliance<\/strong> for the DS, but that was a late-arrival and hasn&#8217;t found any reviews.  Not much else worth noting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>What I&#8217;m Currently Playing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>PC:<\/em> <\/strong><strong>Plants vs. Martians<\/strong> &#8211; STILL absorbed by this one.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Mac:<\/em> <\/strong><strong>Neverwinter Nights<\/strong> &#8211; deep into Chapter One &#8230; really trying to experience every possible angle and line of dialogue.  Makes it slower but is still a favorite of mine.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>DS:<\/em> <\/strong><strong>Jagged Alliance<\/strong> &#8211; wonderful remake of the PC classic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Enjoy gaming!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Memorial Day to one and all &#8211; and I hope everyone has taken a moment to appreciate some veterans! This week has one highly anticipated release &#8230; and other stuff. The big release is Infamous for the PS3, and the only other one of note is the sequel to the awful PSP game Astonishia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-in-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}