Recently in Gaming Category

I recently came across a post at Vicki Davis' Cool Cat Teacher Blog about students exchanging XBox Live gamer tags. Vicki was concerned about allowing students to do this based on safety issues. I posted a comment pointing out that both Microsoft provides a variety of ways to make gaming safe for children. Vicki expressed interest in learning more, and that turned into an email detailing how to enable parental controls. Vicki posted that email with my permission, and I'm cross posting a slightly modified version here as well.

From the Wired Games blog comes a Venn diagram showing the different PS3 SKUs and the features each comes with. Can we all agree that this level of complexity doesn't bode well for the PS3's holiday sales?

I recently completed Overlord (the 360 version). Released on 6/26/07, the game is very similar to Pikmin, however instead of playing a lost alien trying to rebuild his spaceship you play an evil Overlord trying to rebuild his tower. You control an army of minions comprised of four different types, each having separate abilities. The game consists mostly of exploration with some light puzzle play as you figure out how to use the specific skills of your minions to overcome enemies. Also, like Fable, you can make choices throughout the game that have an effect on how evil you are. Find the village's lost supplies and keep them for yourself? Or return them to the village?