My freshman year of high school I had the amazing opportunity to fly to Nintendo of America’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington. That experience was one of the best things I have ever done in my entire life. Being able to go up and p ...
As much as I enjoy playing board games and love recommending them, I have to admit that this is one of my favorite holiday gift guides. We play games on a regular basis but cycle through different types by different publishers. These h ...
One of the board game series that I’ve been most excited about is the video game series announced by IDW Games a couple years ago. Their first release was Centipede, a two-player head-to-head battle where one player got to play as the ...
Ever since I could remember, I’ve been playing video games. From the original Wii and DS to the Wii U and most recently, the Nintendo Switch, I’ve enjoyed playing a variety of games. The first game I remember playing was Super Mario Bros. o ...
Life for teens now is far different than it was when I was my daughters’ age. Online bullying, the challenges that come with getting a driver’s license (we never had to worry about texting while driving) and all the things kids ...
I starting playing the Pokémon series when I was about seven or eight years old. I had a neighborhood friend who introduced me to Pokémon and helped me learn the mechanics of the games. The first game I had played was the original Platinum ...
There are scores of different classifications of board games. Cooperative, strategy, tile-laying, bluffing, economic – the list goes on. Some categories can be broken down much easier than others. Is a game cooperative or competitive? ...
Two years ago we gave our oldest daughter an Xbox One for Christmas. It was a natural upgrade from our heavily-used Xbox 360 and something she had been asking to receive for quite some time. We had previously relegated everything video game ...
The girls are at an age where the division between parents and children has the potential to become a chasm. Scott and I decided long ago that parenting would take priority over befriending our children, but that also meant we would need to ...
Whether online or offline, we’re big advocates for encouraging people to play games. Games are great as entertainment, awesome teaching tools, facilitate bonding, are social and so much more. Whenever I find an opportunity to encoura ...
