by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Earlier this year, we gave our readers a heads up on the new Disney Infinity platform that so many parents (and the gaming world at large) are looking forward to. And now there’s a more info plus a sneak preview video that, well, you might want to keep away from...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Over the weekend, my two older kids plunged head first into the world of Minecraft, and save the couple of desperate tweets and Facebook posts asking for help, I was pretty much on my own getting them started. If you’ve got a kid who wants to play Minecraft,...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
Perhaps at some point, you will be sitting around, wondering what the heck you get for the guy who has everything, including all three major gaming systems, two drawers full of controllers, and an ancient copy of Madden Football for Amiga that he just can’t part...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
When my second grader asked me to join her to play a new video game that Daddy had downloaded for PS3, I figured I’d humor her for a few minutes. Little did I know that two hours later I would still be playing–and wrestling to pull myself away. Welcome to...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
When my kids realized they could hand out diamonds to their friends for Valentine’s Day, they flipped. And they are so obsessed with Minecraft that even handing a ready-to-explode Creeper card sounds perfectly logical. If this all makes sense to you, you must...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Games + Gaming
The stockings are hung, the gifts are (mostly) bought, and now I’ll spend the next few days checking my list–twice–to make sure we’re ready for the big day. Oh, and I’ll be rocking out to this new app that takes my mind off of all I have...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
With so many gaming systems on the market, it can be tough to know which one is the best for your family. Next up in our series of buying guides we focus on handheld video gaming devices. I know my kids aren’t the only ones with some sort of gaming device on...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
I may not understand it all, but my eight year-old says the Minecraft game is awesomeness, and given how much he and his sisters play it on my iPad, I’ll take his word for it. This is a evidently a huge deal among their elementary school-age friends, which is...
by Eva Glettner | Games + Gaming
One of my favorite games as a kid was MouseTrap, with that crazy three-dimensional Rube Goldberg device. In fact, I’m psyched that my kids love playing it as much as I do. This fantastic new app [edited] being distributed by the award-winning team behind Angry...
by Jeana | Games + Gaming
After Liz turned me onto Tiny Wings, I too have become one of the many who have fallen in love with a whole different set of birds, none of which are angry. When I thought the game couldn’t get any better, it did with its new 2.0 version, just recently...
by Eva Glettner | Games + Gaming
I am really into Words with Friends. “Into” is an understatement. And I know Liz is really into Scramble with Friends (though rumor has it no one will play her anymore; she’s some kind of Scramble savant.) So when Zynga announced a new game with a...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming
I got a huge giggle out of this print which shows just what ol’ Mario would look like through an X-ray, after eating all those mushrooms of dubious origin, unmarked pills, and bizarre plants. The Dr. Mario print comes courtesy of illustrator Andrew Heath whose...
