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You Can Get Some Great Family Games From Target This Black Friday
Target’s Black Friday compendium is 36 pages long. I don’t want you to have to read all that. Heck, I didn’t want to read all that. But I did. Note:...Read More
Nintendo Direct is Coming Back on November 12
Nintendo Directs are coming back after a five-month hiatus this Thursday at 2 p.m. PST. Nintendo made the announcement on Twitter this morning. Nintendo Directs are Nintendo’s premiere medium for big...Read More
Tech-Less Mom: Breaking Things in LEGO Jurassic World
When the folks at Pixelkin suggested I review LEGO Jurassic World this month, I was surprised. How do you combine scary, blood-thirsty dinosaurs with LEGOs? In all of the Jurassic...Read More
Nintendo Is Coming to a Mall Near You
Nintendo is going to be touring 16 malls across the United States to show off a bunch of its games and amiibos to holiday shoppers. They’ll be there from November 23...Read More
Mensa Brain Training Review: Not Much Fun
Mensa Brain Training is an app “accredited” by the Mensa organization and developed by Barnstorm Games.Read More
U.K. Students Create MolCraft, a Minecraft World That Teaches Biochemistry
In the U.K., students at The University of Hull have created a Minecraft world that aims to teach basic biochemistry. It’s called MolCraft, and it’s sponsored by the Royal Society...Read More
Lightneer Launches as Angry Birds Cuts Its Education Division
“The world caught us off-guard,” says the website of game startup Lightneer. Lightneer is the new learning-game company founded just as Angry Birds developer Rovio restructured. The comment refers to...Read More
Rock Band 4 vs. Guitar Hero Live: Battle of the Band Games
The music-game genre used to be all the rage. And Rock Band and Guitar Hero used to be the dueling juggernauts. But when sales sagged, both franchises took some time...Read More
Sneak Peek: Fallout 4 Comes Out On November 10
Fallout 4 (rated M for Mature) is the fifth major installment in Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout series after Fallout New Vegas, (hence the numbering mismatch). The game takes place in 2077, 200...Read More
Sneak Peek: Rise of the Tomb Raider
After her return to video games as an inexperienced archaeologist in 2013’s Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is back in Rise of the Tomb Raider. The game takes place after the...Read More
Walmart’s Black Friday Console Deals Come Early
We live in a country that no longer respects the sacred one-day sale that is Black Friday. In the spirit of creating an entire season of frantic purchasing, Walmart is...Read More
Just Dance 2016 Review: Same Old Tune
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Wii We played on: Wii Just Dance 2016 is the latest installment in the prolific motion gaming series Just Dance...Read More
Upcoming Television Series “Skylanders Academy” To Be Produced By Activision Blizzard
Activision has hired a former Disney senior executive to oversee a new film and television production branch, Activision Blizzard Studios. Nick Van Dyck will be co-president of the studio. “Our...Read More
10 Reasons You Should Be Playing Neko Atsume
With the grand news that Neko Atsume will be in English as well as the original Japanese, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of reasons you should probably download this...Read More
