The dangers in adapting a board game to a video game are numerous: a loss of socialization around the board, a need for more players than just yourself, and a realization that playing the board game itself may be better. Cranium Kabookii fails in all of these areas although it does have its positive features.

The niche for Cooking Mama: Cook Off probably doesn’t involve black clad, pimply-faced gear heads but the family of said gamer will find the recipe-driven mini games of interest and of educational fun. As recipes are unlocked upon successful completion of a dish, Mama grades and encourages you to keep up the good work and [...]

Diving into the younger market is a calculated business move for Ubisoft that pays off with the release of Cosmic Family. The set-up is appealing to the toddler demographic as the earth family climbs aboard a space ship and gets to explore the decks of this cartoon environment. Using the Wii remote is intuitive and [...]

Who would have ever thought that shooting a defenseless chicken would elicit sympathetic clucks from seasoned gamers? After a short time firing away at sitting chickens, you begin to feel sorry for the cartoonishly drawn birds as they parade repetitively across the screen.

How do you feel after you’ve spent a few hours on a midway, riding the Tilt-a-Whirl and eating cotton candy while trudging through a dusty fairgrounds? You will feel much the same after buying and playing Carnival Games; slightly nauseous, gritty and greasy at the same time, and taken. The carneys have urged you into [...]

Nothing more than an advertisement for Cabela’s big box stores and online merchandising, Cabela’ s Big Game Hunter suffers from the same maladies that plague real big game hunting: interminable waits followed by short bursts of action that seem vaguely unfulfilling. And this does not even address PETA concerns about shooting defenseless animals in a [...]

One of the most enjoyable aspects of bowling is the cheesy dinginess of most bowling alleys, complete with outdated music and tall necks. Sure some alleys are updated, shiny places where high school kids feel safe but the whole experience is more fun when the jukebox plays C & W and everyone is drinking Budweiser [...]

You might think Boogie refers to dancing and you’d be half right. Once the dancing wears you out, you can get down to the real fun of karaoke, belting out a decent variety of songs culled from the last few decades. Five characters are available to play with five chapters for each. Story lines don’t [...]

Beware anime fans. Bleach: Shattered Blade looks terrific but plays far too simply for you to have any lasting fun. The three worlds of Bleach are complex and visually busy while the story line is so simple-minded that the two elements seem torn from different games. Attacks involve simple remote waggling that grows tiresome after [...]

Zack and Wiki Treasure is a product of Capcom USA and is available on Amazon at a price of $39.99. The concept of this game is completely different and one can see that the makers have thought out of the box. It is more a puzzle game rather than a traditional adventure game. You can [...]