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[GAME REVIEW] Metal Gear Solid Touch: I Paid for This?

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Republished with permission of gamepeople.co.uk game reviews.

Metal Gear Solid Touch
Rating: 9+ (Apple rating)

Platform: iPhone OS

Developer: Kojima Productions

Publisher: Konami

Metal Gear Solid Touch takes a very popular franchise, hollows it out and lives in its shell like some sort of unwanted, dull hermit crab. We’re going all gun ho over the next couple of weeks on Touch [...]



[GAME REVIEW] Wii Sports Resort: Better Than the Rest?

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

Republished with permission of gamepeople.co.uk game reviews.

Wii Sports Resort
Rating: E

Platform: Wii

Developer: Nintendo EAD

Publisher: Nintendo

Wii Sports Resort takes the Wii Sports seed of genius and cultivates it into a fully grown gaming tree. Whereas the launch title was a magical place to visit, Wii Sports Resort is somewhere to loose yourself for days. Experts, novices, and [...]



[COMMENTARY] Being Grown Up

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Work & the World

Something about spring seems to turn my mind towards writing these editorials. It’s a good time of year to take stock before the games start flying in. Again I find myself starting a new season of thoughts, ideas and observations about family gaming. Having spent some time today reading through the last couple of seasons, I realised that although some wide ranging themes were covered



[GAMING] Killzone 2

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Mar 6th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Republished with permission of gamepeople.co.uk game reviews.
Killzone 2 is a shooting game that to some extent is aimed at combating the system selling success of the Halo franchise on the 360. Along with Resistance 2 PS3, it provides some of the most impressive first person visuals seen on a console to date.
What Sort of Game [...]



[REVIEW] Lord of the Rings: Conquest

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

My experience with Lord of the Rings: Conquest from beginning to end was one full of disappointment and irritation. From the limited combat to the confusing and downright erroneous campaign structure, I was left frustrated and angry that a beloved franchise could succumb to such depths.



[GAMING] Disney Think Fast Wii

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: Entertainment, Features

Disney: Think Fast provides an experience that eclipses other quiz games on the Wii, provided you are happy to go with the cartoon drenched questions. It creates a magic style contest that is a surprisingly well thought through experience.
What Sort of Game is This?
Minigames come in a variety of shapes and sizes. What unites the [...]



[GAMING] Tom Clancy’s End War

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment, Features

Tom Clancy, writer of many high-octane novels, and, in more recent years, the name put forward to help sell Redsoft and then Ubisoft games, is now the face of End War, a console and PC based Real Time Strategy (RTS) title based in the year 2020 during World War 3 and its build up.



[GAMING] Far Cry 2

By GAMEPEOPLE.CO.UK • Dec 25th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Features

Although this at first glance appears to be yet another addition to what seems to have been the year of the sequel, Far Cry 2 actually has absolutely nothing to do with the original Far Cry from 2004.
Instead the game takes place in an unnamed African nation which has descended into anarchy as the result [...]



PODCAST #5: National Geographic Kids + TV Dads

By Ben Murphy • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: At Home, Business, Entertainment, Podcast, The Father Life

Image by: Jean Scheijen,
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Hey guys! Mike Austin (RadioDAD.com) just delivered our latest podcast, episode #5! Including:
- Interview with Michelle Sullivan, Executive Producer for National Geographic Digital Media, on National Geographic Kids new (free!) online game PLUTO’S SECRET!
- Interview with Jim O’Kane, founder of TVDads.com, a growing website about TV’s single dads…

Enjoy! -TFL
DOWNLOAD: PODCAST #5: National [...]