A Parents Guide to Online Gaming, Part 1

The internet touches every aspect of your children’s lives. Where you might look up an unknown word in a dictionary, your kids are more likely to use dictionary.com. Where you use the telephone, they use instant messenger. An even greater difference can be found in how they play games. Where the games of their parent’s generation may have involved a board, cards, or at their most sophisticated a console system, the games your children play on the net can be far more complex.

Why We Play Games, Part 1

There exists some ephemeral quality that separates gamers from the rest of humanity, some thing that makes us, us and them, not us. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on it, but it is inescapably there. Today, in hopes of moving closer to that essential quality of gamerosity, we examine part of what makes us tick.

Go Digital and Groovy… and Save Trees!

Have you inherited your Dad’s trading card collection - ie. pieces of printed cardboard that come with a piece of gum that looks like it tastes like cardboard too? Well today’s trading cards have evolved to include, wait for it… (cue bells and whistles), holograms and foil..! Wow, riveting isn’t it.

Indie Games that Made It to the Tops of the Charts this Year

1. Platypus
http://www.deprice.com/platypus.htm

Platypus is one of the most unique looking games ever created. All of its visuals were created using photographed clay. Help the peaceful land of Mungola defend itself against the attacking hordes of Collosatropolis. All that stands between you and complete destruction is an antique aircraft called Platypus!

2. Alien Shooter
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Review: Samurai Jack — Code of the Samurai

Fans of Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Samurai Jack,” which wrapped last year on the Cartoon Network, enjoy the quirky storytelling and stunning visuals, also the martial arts sequences. Naturally, it was only a matter of time before the online gaming industry turned the time-traveling samurai’s adventures into video games.

I haven’t tried any of the games available for gaming console systems, confining my efforts instead to Cartoon Network’s own Web Site.

Top 10 Dumbest Game Titles

You may not agree with the order in which they are in, that’s personal preference.

But you have to agree that these are some pretty stupid game names.

1. “This Is Football”
Trust me, it is. Really.

2. “The Thing”
Where you shoot at the what-sits with the um stuff.

3. “Sweet 16 Licensed To Drive”
Unfortunately Mary-Kate and Ashley miss the true legal significance of this birthday

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Theories Behind Magic Trinkets in Video Game and Virtual Reality

In Gaming we deal between Simulation, Augmented Reality, Fantasy and Virtual Reality. The best fantasy has some reality basis behind it. Trun your mind on for a second and let me explain.

Having studied the ancient art and cultures and myths of ancient civilizations we know that many groups of our ancestors and other genetic chains of members of our species often associated charms, trinkets and tools as sacred and possessing powers.

How To Save Time, Energy, and Money by Renting Your DVDs and Games Online

As a bit of a movie buff I recently discovered that the best way to rent movies and games these days is online using one of the Online DVD and Game Rental Services.

If you’re into renting movies or games these services simply can’t be beat for their time saving convenience and value.

The Story Behind OpenSimcity

I’ve always liked to play SimCity since I was little. I used to play the version for Super Nintendo for hours then and then. That version was really cool. It had 4 seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn) and many landscapes, scenarios to choose between. That was a really big hit at the time.