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Controlling your eMotions

Family games live or die by their controls, and motion controls even more so. Why is it that games like Boom Blox are so instinctive and intuitive, when others like SSX Blur are so forced and laboured? For me it’s that one-to-one freeform movement that brings the magic and makes the games come to life. […]

Hand Held Heritage

When they want to, families have a surprisingly long memory. The strong response to a recent Family Gamer column made me realise that we all have a myriad of skeletons in the closet and claims to fame that are told and retold over the years. Christmases, summer camps, weddings and funerals offer opportunities for us […]

Small Hands

As I’ve said many times in my Family Gamer column, when you have kids it is immediately apparent that they need their own games. Everything from the size of their hands to the development of their motor skills to the sorts of stories they enjoy means that they take to a certain type of game.
But […]

Mythos - MMORPG Preview

I have a secret to tell you. I write an online gaming blog… but I’ve never played an mmorpg! Actually that’s not entirely true, we released Runescape at work about 3/4 years ago, and I played that quite a bit (levelled up to about 35/40 iirc), but in the grand scheme of things you could […]

Sierra event round-up

If my memory serves correctly Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot were both designed to give the Playstation a mascot that was associated with the console in the same way that Mario is to Nintendo and Sonic to Sega. That never really panned out and you can now play their games on many different machines […]

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