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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open world full of mini-games gives families somewhere to get away to together, even when at home.

In this episode of Family Gamer TV we look at the new WebWorld for Skylanders — Skylanders Universe. But before getting into that we spent some time with another family new to gaming to see how they got on playing Skylanders for the first time. I was really interested to ...

Though I even have to remind myself of this fact, Nintendo’s fourth quarter releases aren’t strictly limited to Zelda and Mario titles. While those games have rightly earned the lion’s share of attention from both gamers and reviewers, there are actually a handful of other first-party releases that likewise warrant ...

Kids can create their own mini-games on the 3DS or Wii with this inexpensive title.

Calling all family gamers. We need you to vote on the Family Gamer Awards to select the definitive Family Game in each age group, and the overall Family Game of the Year. Each vote you make enters you in a prize draw to win £200 in PS3 Family Games (open ...

I’m old enough now that I remember when the original Centipede game was a huge hit at the local video arcade, so I jumped when Atari offered GeekDad a chance to review Centipede Infestation. The 2011 sequel to the original 1980 game is available for the Nintendo Wii and 3Ds, ...

As the new Skylanders characters start to hit retail, and the mysterious limited edition silver Skylanders start cropping up, Family Gamer TV takes some time to see what makes this game different and how well ...