In the 1999 film Galaxy Quest Sigourney Weaver’s character complains that her only function is to repeat what the computer says. If the movie were made today, she’d have to complain that Blue Box’s PC Gizmo could do her job.  read more »

It’s The Price Is Right videogame for the PC.  read more »

Hey Joe! Look at this, they made a video game about us!

Really? Let me see that. Hey, those guys don’t look like us.

Yeah, their Joe is better looking than you.

Yeah, right....if you think that plastic mannequins are good-looking.

At least they won’t get all the zits that you do.

Funny, Frank. Really funny. Seriously, though, why don’t they look anything like us?  read more »

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Eight-Bit is Enough is the last episode in TellTale Games' current offering. And, for this final foray into the strange world of Strong Bad, the designers have outdone themselves.  read more »

Last year, Disney bought the online virtual polar landscape that is Club Penguin, a virtual world where kids romp and play as penguins do.

This year, they've introduced a plush toy line that extends the virtual polar landscape into the thawed real world with the Club Penguin Series One figures, produced by Jakks Pacific and available at www.ClubPenguin.com/clubpenguinshop.  read more »

Hot Wheels has taken a computer game based on their standard toys
another step farther.  With the Hot Wheels Turbo Driver Controller,
gamers can race in an online "Race the World" event hosted at
HotWheels.com.  And with a Car-tridge loaded onto their controller (see
insert), the link to the Hot Wheels cars I grew up playing with is
complete so that the player is experiencing the race using the care
attached to their controller.  read more »

One of the problems with games like Guitar Hero for families is the "T" rating for lyrics. For Christian families or fans of Christian rock music, Digital Praise's Guitar Praise offers a family-friendly alternative for both Mac OS X and Windows.  read more »

There’s nothing quiet as enjoyable as finally getting to see a much-anticipated movie sequel; like Star Wars Episode I or Indiana Jones IV. Well, okay, so anticipated sequels don’t always work out as their creators hope. Which means that Strong Bad had better be careful because episode four of the popular Telltale Games Strong Bad Adventure series is the much-anticipated sequel Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective.  read more »

For in explicable reasons, the set-up for Pipe Mania sounds like it was cribbed directly from Super Mario Sunshine. The story begins with a spunky Italian-named plumber who faces the unenviable task of cleaning up a tropical island and he needs your help. Any resemblance to the Nintendo classic ends there.

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Sometimes you just have to pity poor Strong Bad. At the opening of the third installment of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Awesome People, his vintage Fun Machine gaming console suffers a meltdown.  read more »