Category Archives: Games

Tetris Turns 25

By tone | Published: June 7, 2009
Tetris has been around now for 25 years. This delinquent game that made a world sensation has a rich storied history. Things were very much different 25 years ago, the Cold War was still on and tittering at the edges was reform in the winds. Russia was trying to find a new identity in the [...]
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Family Game Night

By tone | Published: October 21, 2008
Family Game Night Gaming night for the whole family? There is such an animal. Thanks to the folks at Hasbro and Nintendo now the classic board games that were a proven success through the years are Wii bound. This are games that the whole family can enjoy and have a sense of even-steven in the competition for the [...]
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Pandora Console

By tone | Published: October 1, 2008
The proverbial Pandora’s box has been open with the open source system that will emulate older gaming system to be played on this nifty handheld system. It’s new school going old school. Limited quantities will be available so better grab this before it disappears. There is no software to purchase. All [...]
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Spore Galactic Edition

By tone | Published: August 25, 2008
  Spore Galactic Edition The surge of gratuitous sex and violence has found a new domain to breed this vile culture for kids to absorb like sponges. Parents are quite content to welcome this cesspool of degradation into their houses without flinching an eyelid. They have become the baby-sisters of many impressionable young minds. [...]
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PlayCrafter Games You Create

By tone | Published: August 6, 2008
PlayCrafter is the building block for many of those gamers without computer skills who want to build their own games. It’s a fun way to be creative and get a sense of how games are built. PlayCrafter is community based where all can share and play games created by [...]
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Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution

By tone | Published: July 2, 2008
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution Sid Meier is the gaming guru of the world for the past 20 years. He has unleashed on the world games such as F-15 Stealth Fighter, Railroad Tycoon, and Pirates. His biggest claim to fame is his glorified [...]
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Space Invaders Extreme

By tone | Published: June 30, 2008
Space Invaders Extreme Only 30 years? Space Invaders captured the fancy of a generation in 1978 that was just ambushed by George Lucas with Star Wars. Space Invaders a simple left to right joystick shooting game was as simple as you can get in amusement sense. This game would spawn [...]
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Princess Bride Free Video Game

By tone | Published: December 4, 2007
  The Princess Bride is one of those movies that came out with no fanfare, but yet is endeared by many who saw this fun flick when it first came out. It follows a simple formula, it’ s funny and has a script and will last for quite some time as a sleeper classic. [...]
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Dark Knight

By tone | Published: September 27, 2007
If you can’t beat them join them, or in this case rip them. Knight Rider is coming back to NBC, with a twist. K.I.T.T. the talking car will now be a shape-shifting car. He will have other cars that are shape-shifters too who will be his nemesis. Sound familiar? Read more>>
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Barbie Recall

By tone | Published: September 27, 2007
Barbie Girls  Business is getting tougher all over. Mattel toys is no different from any other business model. With sagging sales for Barbie, they came up with barbiegirls.com and in just 3 months logged in 4 million registered users. Not to be outdone, Mattel got with the times [...]
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