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Disneyland Adventures Is Kinect’s Toy Story
A new game makes the Disneyland park an open world you can fly through, and the Kinect a must-have family-gaming accessory.
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FGTV Tests the 3DS and Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7
This week on Family Gamer TV, with a little help from Warner, we equipped our families with Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 on the 3DS and Xbox 360 to see how they would get on. This was not only their ...
View ArticleFamily Gamer TV Goes Hands-Free on Forza 4
It can be fascinating to see the different ways people connect to games, especially the first time they encounter them. This is what keeps Family Gamer TV motivated to follow our different families as...
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Review: Disney Universe for XBOX 360
Disney Universe mixes frenzied action, platforming and puzzle gameplay, as you and up to three friends leap and whack your way through dozens of levels based on popular Disney films. The levels in the...
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Review: Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show
I am new to the game show genre of video games and I was skeptical about the amusement offered by Electronic Arts’s Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show. I approached my fifteen year-old son...
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Gold Skylanders Spotted in Stores
It’s been a rather Skylanders-filled week. There was the appearance of third wave figures on Amazon yesterday which I followed up with a meet the Skylanders guide to different characters. Then today a...
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Grand Slam Tennis 2 Asks: Gestures or Sticks?
The ebb and flow of franchises between platforms would make a good post-graduate study. The most recent trend has been to translate Wii games into a high definition PlayStation Move equivalent. You can...
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New Empire of Ice Skylanders Appear on Amazon
The Skylanders news keeps on coming this week. Following on from the third wave figures appearing on Amazon a few days ago, the new Empire of Ice adventure that includes the previously unreleased Slam...
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Rush Extends Kinect’s Reach
Kinect Rush ($49.99 on Amazon) is the next big game for the Xbox 360′s Kinect controller. We had some hands-on time with the game and spoke to Jay Ward from Pixar about the development. As well as...
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Kinect Accessories for Real Family Conditions
Getting Kinect working perfectly in a real living room takes a little thinking about. Families I talk to often express initial frustration with the hands-free controller and feel like they must be...
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Why Dad Will Leap Off the Couch for I Am Alive
I Am Alive has a familiar storyline with a fantastic setting of a post-apocalyptic world in the dismal aftermath of a calamitous “event.” The greatest challenge our protagonist faces is finding his...
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Kinect Star Wars Previews New Modes and Campaign Details, Plus Limited...
Kinect Star Wars takes another shot at that fabled recreation of light saber action in a videogame. While it may not have the one-to-one controls of Wii-Sports Resort’s glowing sword fights, it does...
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Grab Your Assault Rifle and Join the Mass Effect 3 N7 Challenge Weekend
Electronic Arts (Bioware) is going on the rampage this weekend against the Reaper faction with “N7 Challenge Weekend” on Xbox 360 and PC. The squad level and community level carnage starts Friday, 3/16...
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Kinect Rush Is a Game for the Whole Family
The measure of a Kinect game is not how good it is at detecting your movements, or even how many times you have to recalibrate the controller. The real test is whether it creates enough...
View ArticleKinect Sports 2 Basketball Highlights Microsoft’s $1M Donation to Right to Play
A new Kinect Sports 2 Basketball activity was unveiled today as part of Microsoft’s $1M sponsorship of the Right to Play charity. The sponsorship will provide funds and technology for the charity’s...
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FGTV Compares Kinect Rush and Disneyland Adventures
This week on Family Gamer TV we are comparing Kinect Rush with Disneyland Adventures. As you will see in the show, we discovered that if you put the effort into getting your room set up well for the...
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XBLA and PSN Retail Packs Help Overcome the Online Hurdle
Technology can bring people together and make our world more connected. However, if we are not careful about our assumptions, it can also lead to us inhabiting very different realities. For instance,...
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Can Splinter Cell Blacklist Seed Morality From Violence?
We talk with Max Béland about Splinter Cell Blacklist and catch him in reflective mood as the conversation turns to parenting, children and how to deal with a sometimes harsh world -- not to mention...
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Fable: The Journey Extends the Companionship to the Whole Family
Playing Fable: The Journey and talking to studio head Gary Carr I discovered that this is not only a more age appropriate version of Fable for families, but also a genuinely fresh look at the world of...
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GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #3 — Games!
Whether it's on a console or cardboard (or anything in between), we love to play games. Submitted for your approval, here are a list of our favorites this holiday season ...
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