Brave: The Video Game will be released this Summer alongside the film. Interestingly it's currently slated for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and Windows PC/MAC -- nothing mentioned about 3DS or Vita at this stage.

If you've got kids just out of school (or close to it), then you've likely got your hands full with trying to find enough activities to keep them busy. The pool is great, and the library's always a good option, but my favorite parts of the summer break were projects... ...

My wife laughed nervously when I told her that I'd won a Doomhammer sculpture. She was aware that I had entered the contest at the NY Toy Fair back in February. She even commented on the picture on Facebook, and reposted it to her friends, but I'm sure it never ...

Innocent but esoteric questions from children can be hard to answer. When a child asks "How do birds fly," "Who invented the alphabet," or "Why is the sky blue," sometimes the answer is difficult to distill enough for young minds. For the intrepid geek, this is a matter of breaking ...

As the Scooby-Doo franchise has developed over the years, the Scooby Gang has been around the world and then some. China, Hawaii, Transylvania, South America... they've been everywhere! I've really lost track of every destination that's sported a mystery for the gang to solve. But I can name at least ...

Hasbro has been pulling out all the stops on the movie tie-in side of Battleship: new versions of the board game, both analog and electronic, featuring the alien opponents; a first-person-shooter videogame coming that reminds me of Halo; an update to the iOS app that adds the aliens. The best part ...

The crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become the launch point for a number of clever and useful smartphone accessories in the past two years. Now Portland-based photographer and design engineer Charles Waugh is using Kickstarter to raise funds for his own addition, the SlingShot smartphone video/photo stabilizer. It's already at over ...

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It rained during the early part of the week here in Atlanta. My five-year-old, Decker, is quite used to riding his bike outside after school or kicking the soccer ball around the yard. I was worried that he'd be a bit antsy having to stay indoors, especially given that he ...

I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy super-agent character Chuck Bartowski from the NBC series Chuck. But I quickly ...