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Jasper’s Journeys

I was recently elated after finishing Jasper’s Journey, by Lexaloffle Games, on my PC. It was that particular kind of elation you feel when you finally beat something really hard after trying and failing many times.

Jasper’s Journey is a retro-style cute-looking downloadable platformer game for PC and …

Peggle Nights released

PopCap’s incredibly enjoyable, ridiculously successful, game Peggle (click the link to read my review) has been downloaded from the web more than 20 million times since its introduction in February last year (2007) and was named in the top twenty videogames of 2007 in the Guinness World Records 2008 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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