When I was a kid, our first computer was an Amiga, and one of my absolute favourite games was Lemmings. Released in 1991, it celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. After James, Lydia, and I watched a great documentary about it on YouTube, I showed Lydia the game – and she thought it was hilarious. Inspired, …
We are a family of gamers so it was no surprise that we were delighted to be offered press passes to attend Insomnia – the Gaming Festival – at the NEC, Birmingham. The girls are now old enough to be playing all kinds of games on the multiple platforms we have in the house – PC, Switch, and PS5 – and were keen to try some new games and enjoy everything the event had to offer.
The girls both got Nintendo Switch Lites for Christmas in 2022, and we also have a ‘family’ Switch that, while being predominately mine, we all share – especially for multiplayer games using the TV. Back during lockdown I got an Animal Crossing Switch for just myself to use, while the kids shared with James. We …
It’s day 3 of my week of Christmas gift guides, and today’s theme is gamers! I have a great selection of gifts for gaming fans, young and old. I’ve got gifts for Xbox, PC, PS4, and Switch gamers, too.
Last year James used my birthday as an excuse to buy Nintendo’s latest console, the Switch. We’ve had it for around six months now, so I thought I would blog about how we’ve got on with it. Initially, we had a handful of games; 1 2 Switch, Just Dance 2017, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Splatoon …
I got my first Lego Dimensions stuff last Christmas. I started off with the Starter Pack and by the end of the Christmas holidays I also had the Unikitty fun pack, the Doctor Who level pack – some excellent use of my Christmas money! Fast forward 11 months later and my collection has expanded a …
It’s been a few weeks since Christmas now, and just enough time to see which presents have been one-hit wonders, and which will be well-used and much-loved. Thankfully, not much has dive-bombed and been dropped in a box to be forgotten forever – a few of the silly little stocking fillers maybe, but nothing big from …
We discovered the GamerPrint brand when we visited EGX last month, and James bought one of their fabulously geeky yet stylish Mario t-shirts. When we got back home we checked out their site, and I was delighted to see that they stocked Monkey Island t-shirts too, something I’ve never seen before.
This week has been another mixed one – Lydia and I went down to London for a day, and we had some of the girls friends over for a fun twitter party, but the rest of the week has been really relaxed as we’ve all been under the weather & that was enough activity for …
We really enjoyed EGX, and had fun checking out all the newest family-friendly games – as well as a few of what we call our “after bedtime” games! With the kids These are games that the girls, Georgie in particular, would enjoy playing with us. Super Mario Maker Wii U Nintendo We are big Mario …
