TV Guardian — for protecting your kids’ ears

One of my New Years Resolutions was to protect what my kids hear on TV … without being an ostrich in the sand and isolating them from the world. I looked at TV Guardian a few years ago, with their embedded censoring technology within a DVD player — but they were limited to 480 (non-HD) [...]

January 27, 2012 · Jason · No Comments
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LEGO Rock Band

A big hat’s off and ‘thank you’ to the folks at LEGO and MTV/Harmonix for a great game in LEGO: Rock Band For those that have read my blog before, you know that I am a fan of all of the Lego titles, including Batman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Battles.  And I have been [...]

January 4, 2010 · Jason · 2 Comments
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Xbox Live – Family Game Night – TONIGHT

Have you ever played Scrabble or Battleship with someone 1000 miles away?   Me neither – let’s try it !!   A few weeks ago, the fun folks at Electronic Arts teamed with Hasbro to release several classic board games for the Xbox 360.  They are available via the Game Marketplace as Arcade titles for 800 [...]

April 14, 2009 · Jason · No Comments
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Family Game Night by Hasbro

FINALLY !! Old fashioned family games — on Xbox!! The classics — Yahtzee, Scrabble, Connect Four, Sorry, Battleship, and others… This month, on Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade, Hasbro released a really cool shell, where you will find yourself in a game room.  On the game wall, you’ll find these and other classic Hasbro games, first [...]

April 2, 2009 · Jason · No Comments
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Cooking Mama for Wii

For those of you who follow my gaming recommendations, you’ve heard lots about my two sons, ages 7 and 9 — and the games that we play together.  But there are two other gamers in my family, whose ages are 3 and 29-and-holding — and their favorite pastime right now is Cooking Mama — for [...]

March 25, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

A version of this review also appeared under Xbox Dad column on Xbox.com My wife and I recently unwrapped one of my Christmas presents to ourselves – the Scene It?  Lights, Camera, Action game for Xbox 360.  And the only complaint we had was that we wished we had opened it sooner. The kit comes [...]

February 29, 2008 · Jason · No Comments
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