If you like crossword puzzles, you can take them with you anywhere you go on the Nintendo DS. There are seven levels of difficulty in the New York Times Crosswords from Majesco. The game allows competition or cooperative modes in the multi player games. The single players can compete on certain difficulty levels to unlock [...]
Parallels 3.0
July 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Parallels allows Intel-processor Macs to emulate an x86 system. This allows them to run all versions of Windows and even Linux. Pre-Windows 2000 support is questionable in Parallels. Windows 98 and below will run but won’t have any of the integration features. Parallels 3.0 represents some major improvements in that area. There is now some [...]
Eragon, the game
June 22, 2007 Leave a Comment
Eragon for the Playstation 2 is based on the movie and book of the same name. Unfortunately, like many games that are based on movies, it suffers from all too familiar problems. Generally movie games seem rushed out of production to make it to market in time for the Hollywood launch. This gives developers less [...]
Nyko Charge Station for Wii
June 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Nyko released a charge station for the Wii that includes two batteries for the Wii motes, a new battery cover and a base station that can charge both remotes at the same time. Unfortunately the Wii did not come with a rechargeable battery for its remotes. This has, however, created an opportunity for 3rd parties [...]
Carol Vorderman’s Sudoku
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Sudoku for the PSP, Play Sudoku anywhere. With over one million different Sudoku puzzles, this game will keep anyone busy for a while. The game has skill levels from novice to expert. Giving all a challenge without making it to hard to be impossible for some. Carol gives lots of information about Sudoku, from it’s [...]
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Ratchet and Clank works great for a modern day platformer. While on vacation, a little girl who wanted to get some pictures of you gets kidnapped. You must now go save her. The story doesn’t have the blood and gore that some people may want, but fighting off robots will make it more acceptable for [...]
Toon-Doku
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Play Sudoku with pictures instead of numbers. This Game for the DS was designed for those don’t like to see numbers. The game of Sudoku is played with icons for each of the numbers. This is aimed at a younger audience that will enjoy changing the pictures, and even drawing their own pictures to use [...]
Penguin United Wii component cables
April 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Penguin United–a maker of high quality gaming accessories–sent Blast magazine a sample of their premium and standard component cables for the Nintendo Wii. To test them out, we connected them to three different televisions: one that doesn’t support HD, one that was 64” and one that was about 32″. We flipped back and forth between [...]
Rogue Galaxy
April 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
The newest Japanese style role playing game, Rogue Galaxy is sitting on the backs of the great RPG companies. They took the best idea’s of other games and incorporated them here. The fighting style resembles Dot Hack, with the isolated fighting in bubbles. When wondering around you just wonder into a group of enemy’s and [...]
MyVu for iPod
Feb. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Initial Impressions: The glasses seem strange at first, since they only block a center strip of your eyes, and they have tinted glass on either sides of the screen. This does allow you to see around you when the glasses are on. It seems a little disconcerting at first, seeing the world around you, yet [...]
Invisible Shield
Jan. 1, 2007 1 Comment
I saw Shield Zone’s Invisible Shield at Mac World in Boston, and obtained the iPod Nano version, with a cut out for the scroll wheel. It’s basically three pieces of plastic, the front cover, back, and a little circle for the center of the wheel. It is shipped with a vial of applicator solution, and [...]
