Music and video games have become good friends in recent years. Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and later Dance Central came to be party staples, allowing players to download some of their favorite songs and play along with their friends. Rush Bros brings a slightly different take to musical integration because at its core it isn’t… Read More »
This week has been filled with all sorts of discoveries including the ability of my son to pee standing up and the revelation that that baby can say “apple juice.” Probably the most startling discovery for me is that my children are getting older. I realize this isn’t exactly a revelation so much as an… Read More »
It’s been an interesting few weeks on this column. We’ve discussed everything from depression to E3 and back again. Why don’t we stick with the more recent theme of video games and toddler nonsense and discuss the ways in which my three year old is ridiculous (and also very clearly the perfect combination of my… Read More »
The Pikmin games have always been Nintendo’s very curious take on real time strategy. The player controls a character who has at their command an army of these little Pikmin creatures of various colors. The goal is simply to make use of the colored Pikmin’s special abilities to search an alien planet for food and… Read More »
I spent almost all of last week talking about video games. I talked about games on podcasts, via IM conversations, on Xbox Live, and I even forced my husband to listen to my diatribes about video games. I showed him trailers and I paced the living room and made wild hand gestures. Honestly, I’m incredibly… Read More »
My last two entries in this wonderful series have been a little heavy. Actually they’ve been a lot heavy with a side of EMOTIONS (yes the capital letters were necessary). I think it might be time to switch it up a bit and talk about something a bit lighter, like video games. This past week… Read More »
I feel like I may have done you all a bit of a disservice with my last entry. I wrote about the births of my two children changing my relationship with video games but while I was writing that a giant pink elephant was sitting in the room with me and I was completely avoiding… Read More »
Before I had children I had a chronic issue when it came to video games. You could almost call it a disease, one that couldn’t be cured even with the help of some serious business antibiotics. Once I started a game, no matter what game it was, I felt like I absolutely had to finish… Read More »
Countdown mode has officially been initiated. I’m betting your first question (well, the one after Where’s the Beef?!) is “Elaine, what are you counting down to?” I’m counting down to when we go to North Carolina’s beautiful Outer Banks for a family vacation. The steps involve renting a house with a bunch of family members,… Read More »
I’m not going to lie to you fine people, I’ve been sitting in front of a blank window for the last 20 minutes trying to figure out what to write about for this installment. I happen to be at one of those periods in my life where I simultaneously have nothing to talk about and… Read More »
