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Fun for the whole family

Blockbuster is way family (and also that religion that John Travolta is), as evidenced by its new Wii-focused “Family Gaming Pack.” Spend $50 on games at participating stores and you get a bunch of junk about garbage for free!

If my mom went to the video store and brought home a dry erase board and some noisemakers and suggested the whole family play Carnival Games, we’d have some serious matricide on our hands. And for once, a video game would have actually incited violence.

Aaron on August 7, 2008

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The High Five

The High Five

Game 4 Friends: Co-op zombiefest Left 4 Dead lands on the 360 this week, continuing a pre-holiday landslide of must-play games.
Watch for those teeth: The film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s bazillion-selling Twilight hits theaters Friday. It’s the hottest teen vampire romance since Buffy and Angel!
I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It’s cheating as far as I’m concerned. But he didn’t see it as a problem and couldn’t see why I was so upset.”
—U.K. resident Amy Taylor is divorcing her husband for having virtual sex with a prostitute in Second Life.

The benefit of experience: The New Xbox Experience exits beta and enters your life Wednesday. Let the avatar accessorizing begin.