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3 Tips for Finding The Best Mobile Games To Download Onto Your Phone

June 12, 2018 by Lucilla

If you love playing games, you likely find that one of the main purposes for you having a smartphone or other device is exactly for this reason. However, if you’re just getting into playing mobile games or you’re wanting to find some new games to spice up your life, you may be struggling with picking the right games for you or knowing how to narrow down your search so you can find games you’ll actually enjoy. So to help you on this quest, here are three tips for finding the best mobile games to download onto your phone.

Consider Your Internet Access

Before you decide to download a game to your phone, you’re first going to want to find out if you need to have access to the Internet in order to play that game and consider how that might affect your ability to play whenever you want. According to the Federal Trade Commission, you need to have Internet access to download the game’s app, but not all games require you to connect to the Internet to actually play. So if you’re someone who doesn’t like to use their data on games and isn’t around WiFi too frequently, you might not want to download games where you need an Internet connection. On the other hand, if you’re almost always near WiFi or have unlimited data, downloading a game that requires Internet access probably won’t be a big deal to you. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apps, Games Tagged With: best mobile games to download, find old favorites, mobile games, pick a new mobile game to love

5 Puzzle Games Your Kids Will Love

August 27, 2013 by Gadzooki

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If your kids have been home all summer, they’ve probably complained about being bored at least a few times (and probably more). Like most children, they’re probably spending a lot of time watching TV and playing video games. Those activities can be encouraged to a point.

Why it’s OK for tour kids to play video games

Before you tell your kids to shut down that video game, consider the fact that there are a lot of benefits from gaming which are finally being supported by research.
Video games can improve social skills, decision making, and motor skills, and build confidence in players of all ages. Gaming can also improve moods and increase happiness while decreasing depression. Video games of all kinds have their benefits and can offer a lot more than just a way to kill some time.

While there are benefits to playing all kinds of games, some games are more beneficial for younger players. Plenty of online educational games for various ages cover a broad range of skills and interests. Word games are great for kids who are working to expand their vocabulary and strengthen their spelling skills; puzzle games can help with problem solving and decision-making skills.

Here are five puzzle games that kids can play online for free that are a great introduction to online games in general. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Games

An Addictive Thinking Game

July 5, 2011 by Rogue

If you are looking for a good handheld game that is not going to turn your children’s brains to mush but will actually exercise it – and even yours too if you do play with it, then the iball3 is a game you should definitely consider. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Games, Gaming Tagged With: electronics, game, thinking game

Demolish The Competition with The Razer Nostromo

June 30, 2011 by Rogue

Athletes rely on their immense talents to excel in the sports they participate in. These athletes practice and devote their time on the sport so that they can improve on their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses. But even the best athletes still need to rely on equipment so that they can perform at their optimum best. It’s the same thing with gamers. Hardcore gamers will invest lots of man hours playing a game so they can hone their skills but even then, good equipment will give them an advantage over their opponents. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Accessories, Games Tagged With: controller, Gaming, PC, Razer

Hello??? …..Are you there???? Hellooo…..

February 28, 2011 by JW18

n71Some call them mobile phones others cellular phones or cell phones for short(geez.. four letters???!!!??), whatever you’d want to call them they’re the best solution to our never ending need for communicating along with the lust for gizmos and gadgets. Analog phones started as mere telephones without wires that worked on closed networks with batteries as large as a suitcase. When it went digital, the magic began when Nokia unknowingly included a free service programmed within their phones called SMS or texting to some. People, the ever curious creatures we are, discovered this and went on texting sprees that topped calls these technological wonders were supposed to do.texting
Today, you can even get video or browse the net on the next generation smart phones that allows you to bring all the applications you used to use on your laptop or desktop, digital music player, PDA and digital still/video camera and all in one neat package that fits in the palm of your hand. Answering the call for A wonder of materials research and microelectronics that surpasses your laptop and most other digital devices they now allow us to play podcasts, video, music, text/SMS, blog, Twitter and many other denizens of the social internet making for one neat gadget indeed that puts you within reach all the time.

Filed Under: Blogroll, Bluetooth, Cheat Codes, Computer Peripherals, Gadzooki News, Games, Portable Media Players, Robotics

Video Game Deletes Files From Computer

October 1, 2009 by Ade

lose/lose from zach gage on Vimeo.

Are you bored with your Wii, Xbox 360 or your PS3, and you want your video games to up the ante a bit? Why not try Zach Gage’s Lose/Lose?

You see, Lose/Lose is a game that plays like a traditional space shooter, but with a twist.

Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player’s mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land?

Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right?

I’m seriously scared to run the game. But if any of you are willing to actually tempt fate and give it a try, let me know how it goes down!

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: antiviolence, game, lose/lose, zach gage

Gun O’clock

October 28, 2008 by Jim

 

I gotta give it to the Japanese, they sure do know how to start the day right.  Just look at Gun o’ Clock.  If you’re waking up to a very annoying alarm clock every day, hey, shoot it.  Seriously… shoot it! LOL!

This is a special alarm clock that can only be silenced using a “play gun”.  So if you want to wake up as Indiana Jones or something from the Bad Boys… you need this clock dude.  Works in 2 modes.  The first one is the alarm mode where this clock will taunt you to a shootout at precisely the alarm time you’ve set it at.  The second one is the time-attack mode where the user will need to shoot the clock/target at a specific time frame and get praised for every successful shot.

Sold for about US$34 to people 15 and older. Sorry folks, it’s initially available in Japan at the moment.  And hmmm… I don’t know if say a million people wake up to shoot something, what will happen to the planet! 😉

Filed Under: Games

Game Review: Sniper Elite

February 28, 2008 by Jim

 

For a month, this was what’s bringing me back to the desk before I actually do the long zzzzz.  Sniper Elite offers a lengthy single-player game full of nerve-wrecking episodes but still with the oh soooo cool rewarding moments.

Gameplay on my first five tries were difficult, but after I got the controls bagged it became easy to do things, the winning moves, the carnage! 🙂  It will take around 30-minutes to get used to the controls and starting at the rookie level is a must for a lengthier practice kill.  What I just didn’t like was how the mouse was so quick (sometimes too quick) for comfort.

Graphics was awesome, detailed but not too distracting, focused yet not too boring.

Some game blogs rate it at around 7/10, with good points on the following:

1. Lengthy and challenging single-player campaign with some interesting and challenging missions.
2. Realistic bullet physics make long-range shooting challenging and satisfying.
3. Great sound puts you right in the middle of battle.

And of course the bad points:

1. Some textures and characters are reused throughout the game
2. Hit detection is a bit off sometimes
3. Missions can take a long time to complete, so if you don’t have a lot of patience you’ll likely get bored.

Game plot from www.gamespot.com:  Sniper Elite takes place in 1945, at the close of the war. The game focuses on the conflict between Russia and Germany for control of Berlin. The Russian secret service, known as NKVD, is in town to steal the atomic-bomb technology from the German Army. You have to put a stop to that post haste, because nuclear weapon technology in the hands of Stalin’s forces would surely spell big trouble for just about the entire world. You are an American sniper, trained by the OSS to be the best of the best when it comes to covert operations. Disguised as a German soldier, you have to stop the NKVD at all costs. The single-player campaign is quite lengthy. There are 28 missions in a variety of different (but very similar) war-torn settings. The missions are pretty much what you’d expect from a sniper game. You’ll have to assassinate high-ranking officials, steal secret documents, rescue captured allies, and shoot hundreds of guys in the head. The campaign can easily take 12 hours or more to finish. If you complete all the optional objectives and take the time to set up all your shots rather than just blast away recklessly, this game will easily take up as much time as you’re willing to give it. Therein lies the conundrum with this game. If you play it carefully, a single level can take much more than an hour to complete. The stealth is well done here, and the game does a great job of building up the sense of tension that comes from sneaking around and picking off enemies. After a while, though, that tension fades into tedium, and you’ll eventually just be wishing you could move on already.

Filed Under: Games, Gaming, Gaming Features

Gears of War 2

February 21, 2008 by Jaren

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Microsoft made it official at GDC: Gears of War 2 is coming exclusively to Xbox 360 this November.

This post from Wired that Gears of War 2 is coming this November 2008. Naturally, this got me excited as I loved Gears of war, and having found out that Gears of War storyline is kinda short as I keep on asking for more, anyways my wish has come true and is coming this November.

Although I haven’t looked in the details of the game, but if it’s the continuing saga of the previous one. Heck I’m up for it. And I enjoyed the single player/co-op mode of the first one. I’m definitely looking forward for changes on this new Gears of War

Filed Under: Games, XBox 360

Children, Reading and Computer Games

November 29, 2007 by Mr Butterscotch

It was widely reported yesterday that the popularity of computer games are being blamed for a drop in the reading skills of primary school pupils, according to a new report. The Reading Literacy Study studies 45 countries in a variety of ways in order to come to some sort of understanding of the level of reading skills across the spectrum.

England has moved down from 3rd in 2001 to 19th in 2006 – something which has shocked many, but not others, who feel that the education system in Britain is currently suffering – which is why there has been all manner of suggestions including keeping children in school until they are eighteen (for those who don’t know, you can leave school in the UK after initial GCSE education, finishing at age sixteen).

Scotland has also plummeted down from 14th place to 26th in the table – so a worrying trend across two of the countries in the UK – despite both having increasing numbers of students attending university.

Schools Minister, Ed Balls, had this to say about the apparent ‘crisis’ in reading:
‘We all need to help our children of all ages to see that reading can bring fun to their lives, feed their imagination, and develop their curiosity about the world,’
‘Today’s 10-year-olds have more choice than in 2001 about how they spend their free time.
‘Most of them have their own TVS and mobiles and 37 per cent are playing computer games for three hours or more a day – more than in most countries in the study.’

I’d like to add this to the minister’s commentary – doing anything for three hours per day (including studying after school) will have a negative impact on your life as a child. However, I’d also say that I’d be extremely surprised if his study was correct – I know from my childhood I had access to games every day, but never had a real chance to play them for three hours during the week. Granted, the weekend was another matter.

This brings me to another minister’s point of view:
‘While the Government says their policies are driving up standards every year, the independent auditors of our education system tell a very different story’
‘We are falling dangerously behind other countries and we know that those from the poorest backgrounds are suffering most.’

This is the view of government minster Michael Gove – Shadow Children’s Secretary. This is pretty much the job of the Shadow government in the UK, they bicker about the other party and then say that their policies are rubbish. Thus, Gove has done a good job here.

Nonetheless, I’d like to combine both points of view. If Gove is saying the government policies aren’t working yet Balls is saying that children are playing games for three hours a day, I’d suggest another thing. Blame the parents, as well as the system.

If you allow your child to spend endless hours doing something (by my calculations it would be in excess of 25 hours per week, given five hours per day at the weekend) then the rest of their free time is significantly reduced. Therefore, parents take note, make sure to get your child involved in reading and writing.

The system is of course also to blame. I’d say (regardless of what both The Daily Mail and The Guardian would have you believe) that literature is in the finest form that it has ever been in these days. We have access to almost every ‘classic’ ever written, along with everything from papers to medical journals online.

Therefore, the system is failing to adequately get children involved in reading, by (as they have done since the dawn of the modern school system) trying to force-feed them books that bare little relation to the modern world, however ‘classic’ we are told they are. I’m pretty sure that a teacher would have far more success with Life of Pi by Yann Martel than he ever would with Great Expectations for instance. And yes, I would say it is just as good. Times have changed, and so have tastes.

I would like to also point out a massive flaw in the argument here – CORRELATION DOES NOT INDICATE CAUSALITY. In plain English, just because there are more children with tv’s, mobiles and playing computer games, that does not mean that modern technology lies at the heart of this apparent lowered standard for reading and writing. Unless there is another study done to try and find out why children are spending less time with books (I’d be surprised if it’s not in some way because of the parents) then this is just knee-jerk reactionism.

I’ve defended computer games before and I’ll continue to do so as long as I am playing – which I would imagine will be for as long as I can remember. I think one thing Balls et al are forgetting is that their education was probably patently inferior to the education now provided to many children – I’m certainly aware that my cousin (who is fourteen) is now learning HTML, something I was sadly never educated in at school!

As a footnote, I not only a games player but an avid book reader. In fact, I have too many. I donate books now and then. Who knows, maybe one of these will be a book that manages to bring the magic of reading into a child’s life. I can only hope so, because just like computer games, reading can transport you to a magic world that’s all your own.

Filed Under: Editorial, Games, Gaming Features, Random Thoughts

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