Having read Jonathan Liu’s post on the Cars 2 AppMATes toy car controller for the Cars 2 iPad game, I’ve been itching to try my kids out on it. Having spent a weekend watching them play with it, I was impressed at how this simple toy car controller changed the ...

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 kind commenter sent me scurrying to investigate new gold editions of Skylander figures. It transpires that, in ...

The latest offering from Moonbot Studios is a gorgeous homage to Fritz Lang's Metropolis bundled up in a children's story about a world where the alphabet has not yet been invented, and everything is communicated through numbers.

Team members from Chaotic Moon Labs have devoted a chunk of their office hours recently to roaming the streets of Austin on a longboard. They are currently skating around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, likely turning heads as they do. Their board happens to be an electric ...

I arrived a little late today to CES (fog in Atlanta? Seriously?!) but I was able to hustle through the North Hall and part of the Central Hall for Day 1. Let me just say this — I’ve never seen so many accessory vendors for such a small number of ...

After the popularity of the second wave of Skylanders figures, I’ve been eagerly keeping my eyes peeled ready to get my pre-order in for the next wave of figures. Then, this post on the Skylanders Facebook page sent me rummaging through Amazon’s search. I’m glad I did because among the ...

Lego, Lego, Lego. This whole “Friends” line of yours sure has feminists in an uproar. Pink, purple, and teal pieces? Figurines that the New York Daily News calls “bosomy”? (I think the Daily News needs to have their eyes checked. Barbie is bosomy. These? Hardly.) Mind you, the Friends figures ...

In the first of our Meet the Skylanders posts, I’m looking at two rare Earth characters: Terrafin and Prism Break. If you are looking to expand your line-up, these two figures do cost a little more than some of the others, but for good reason. Character Availability Hlth Spd Arm ...

What haven’t computers and screens been blamed for? The debates over video game violence and the impact technology are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. Since the advent of TV there have been hundreds of trials, research reports, and papers trying to provide a definitive answer to the question of ...

Console gaming has changed. In fact, one could make an easy case for flat out evolution. With gaming, gamers have evolved as well. Where once the stereotypical gamer was a fat pimple-faced kid in his mom’s basement, hands covered in Cheetos dust and a two-liter of Mountain Dew with a ...