Wednesday, December 19, 2012
When friends and families gather, take online games into the real world for fun for all ages.
As we look forward to end-of-the-year gatherings, it is sometimes hard to think of ways to involve the whole gang in fun and memory-making. Adults and kids alike can retreat to their respective technologies, whether smartphones or gaming devices. Why not take the rules, strategies and skills used in online games to have some "offline" fun? The most popular online games are often just reworkings or outright replicas of the games that have been played for generations. The top 10 games at the Apple app store or in the video game sections are often reworks of card games, puzzles, board games or group games like tag or cops and robbers. Get everyone in the game by trying to take the game from the small screens of their digital devices to the …
Friday, February 17, 2012
The free online series is better than most mainstream titles
This week I shall explore arguably the most underappreciated medium of modern gaming: free online games. If you don’t know, there are literally thousands of simple games available for free. All they take is a Google search. For free online games, I recommend ArmorGames.com. Funnily enough, game developers have managed to swindle people into paying to have them on their smart phones (guilty). Example: the casual gaming phenomenon known Angry Birds, which to date has grossed over $1 billion in games and merchandise, is a simple palette swap of any of the hundreds of tower destruction-type games that are available online for free and had been for years before Angry Birds was first released. So, with that in mind, let’s talk about my …
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Later wake-ups, no homework, and maybe a bit more time online. It's also a great time to discuss and set limits.
With the first week of summer vacation already behind us, everyone has had to adjust to new routines. It is normal that the rules have changed since the school year or from last summer break; kids get older and circumstances change. One of the areas that usually involves the most tension in a parent/child relationship is the amount of screen time and the rules that surround it. While your kids might want to plop down with a bag of chips and have marathon gaming sessions, we know that a summer of such days is not healthy for your child mentally or physically. Balancing their screen time awakens issues of safety, age-appropriateness, family responsibilities, balancing types of recreation and health. Microsoft's Get Game Smart is a set of …
Alonzo Fabiani
1:52 am on Monday, April 29, 2013
Hi there, Well thanks for sharing some cool games with us. The things that you have mentioned in your blog are quite informational for those who are seeking to play games. I am a big fan of online games and always look forward to play them on various gaming websites. Some of my personal favorites are bgames.com and pogo more ›