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Shaping Youth (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Are “cheat codes” a symbol of impatient multi-taskers incapable of working through frustration that need to leap frog over the hard part of life? Or a conduit to open new challenges at higher levels of engagement at a self-motivating pace? With fuzzy ethics, blurred boundaries and zig-zags aplenty in immersive gaming environs, I’d say “cheats” is [...]
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Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Ur gets pumped up for Pennsylvania in this stop along the Cinematic Road Trip. Growing up, I visited relatives out West. My parents would load up the car with our suitcases and a cooler for drinks and food. My...
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NCSX Import Video Games (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Nintendo's Wario Land Shake isn't the first motion-sensitive Wario game. Semi-old timers may remember the Gameboy Advance title Mawaru Made in Wario from 2004 which was packaged in a cartridge that included a "rotate" sensor to detect movement. Instead of using the D-pad to maneuver, players moved the Gameboy itself in twisting motions. In Wario Land Shake , players hold the Wii Remote horizontally...
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Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In May of 2002, the Army unveiled its latest recruitment tool, the America's Army video game, free to download online or pick up at a recruiting station and now available for purchase on the Xbox, PlayStation, cell phones and Gameboy game consoles. Thundering helicopter sound effects drew the curious to the Army's interactive display at the year's E3 gaming conventio, where a giant video screen flashed...
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ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Online habits show that only 26% of kids have access to the Internet, 17% of these users typically use it to play games (17%) and do school research (6.3%). Eleven percent or 650,540 kids have their own cellphones, 15% have their own CD player or discman, 10% have their own desktop computers, and 13% have their own Gameboy.
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Joystiq (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Filed under: Nintendo DS As if worrying about Daleks, Slitheen and Cybermen wasn't enough, the UK now has to worry about dangerous third-party device chargers flooding in from China. The BBC reports a specific warning was issued about the chargers for Nintendo DS, DS Lite and Gameboy machines, but the chargers can also be used on mobile phones and music devices. Identifying the third-party chargers...
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Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
"Hundreds of thousands" of unsafe DS and GameBoy chargers on sale, warns trading standards. "Hundred of thousands" of dangerous and unsafe Nintendo DS chargers could have made their way over to the UK, Trading Standards have warned. Click here to read the full article
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
GET ready to transform your traditional DS into a full-blown musical instrument with an ingenious add-on that allows handheld gamers to experience the musical fun of the Guitar Hero series.
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Jeff's Gameblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I happened to have the good luck to marry into a family of gamers. My wife isn't a gamer, though she's played a couple of games of Illuminati over the years and she's currently obsessing over the GameBoy version of Lego Star Wars . My brother-in-law Jim and his sons play boardgames and wargames. Sister-in-law Anne will plays some games from time to time. But this post comes courtesy of Anne's husband...
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Windows Watch (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Trading Standards has issued a warning that a number of unsafe mains chargers designed for games consoles have "flooded" into the UK.One type of charger, designed for the Nintendo DS and Gameboy, is marked with the code DE62347066: Another, for...
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Serious Eats: Talk (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I don't have children, but yesterday I had a 'birthday lunch' (today is my birthday!) with a good friend of mine and two of her children. The lunch was great and my friend's kids are great--very polite and bright but...
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Boggartblog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Well, who would have thought it? Scientists from John Moore's Nursery... er sorry University, have found that playing computer games does not use up as much energy as taking part in sport!!!! The in depth study, where teenagers were wired up to monitors in a laboratory, found that sitting on the sofa playing computer games used less energy than active games using a Wii set, yet surprisingly neither...
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The Wii, that from next week Fridays (8 December) are will for sale, becomes per immediately from the assortment scraped, reports Gameshop. The same counts for the near it hearing games and accessoires. The Hague gamesspeciaalcase says [...]
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Loot Ninja (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Everyone has been enjoying Guitar Hero on the Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and even the Wii for quite some time now, but our friends over at Activision/Vicarious Visions decided that we, the gamer, needed to have Guitar Hero goodness on the go as well and developed Guitar Hero: On Tour. GH: On Tour brings you [...]
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Loot Ninja (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I was looking through my Xbox 360 profile and realised that as of January 6, 2006 when I got my 360 I have played 164 games on it, this includes about 70 or so arcade titles, but excludes demos. That is about 50 Xbox 360 games a year and about 1 per week. Not sure [...]
