Amazon UK has posted some excellent ‘Half-Term Deals’. The offers include a few of the best videogames we’ve looked at in recent months. If you live in the UK, or nearby, Sims 3, Darksiders and Dragon Age: Origins are among the most heavily discounted titles.
We also noticed the first signs of [...]
To our surprise Apple’s iPad delivers most of the features on our touch tablet ‘wish list’. It’s light, thin, has a 9.7” screen, offers 10 hours of battery life and comes with WiFi as standard. The pricing is equally impressive, as a £310/ $499 entry point for a device that brings together personal, [...]
Our young playtesters were let loose on Sims Animals 2 (Wii), Sims 3: World Adventures (PC) and MySims: Agents (Wii). All three titles were played at length and the kids enjoyed most of what they came across.
There was, however, a clear difference between the children’s reactions to the games. Sims Animals [...]
The following future learning opportunities are readily available in a range of games and game formats:
Games offer a ‘testing ground’, where different skills, approaches and risks can be evaluated to build an awareness of consequences, without experiencing the ‘actual’ consequences.
Sims 3 and Sony’s Free Realms can be criticised for [...]
Well not so much homework. Sims 2 and its many add-ons have sold millions of copies but the franchise was definitely due for an update. Too many repetitive tasks, impossible targets, ‘more of the same’ expansions and moody Sims have made each successive Sims 2 expansion more tired than the last.
The [...]