Hit the Road with Rock Band 2’s Portable Drum Kit

Now that Rock Band 2 is out, that means its time to reunite the band. The best way to enjoy the game is to have all your bandmates in one place but what that means is some may have to lug their own gear. Well if you are the band’s drummer, it would have been tougher for you to carry your drum kit around but not anymore. Available for pre-order at ebgames. There is the X-Box 360 Rock Band Portable Drum Kit.
The portable drum kit is basically the drums without the stand. The drumheads can be placed on any flat surface to pound away on. There is also a kick drum foot pedal as well as noise reduced drum sticks. You won’t take up any space at your friends house and you can easily pack this baby up and leave when your done jamming. $59.99 is a small price to pay to save your back from schlepping heaving equipment.

Wooden Tetris Desktop Puzzle Reminds Us of Jenga

After ll these years Tetris is still popular with video gamers, old and new a like. Take a look at the new iPhone App Store and you’ll even discover that Tetris is one of the top 25 downloaded apps. So for those, like myself, who are fans of the classic game, you’ll appreciate the Tetris Wood Desktop Puzzle that pays homage to a true classic. It retails for just $7.99 and happens to make and excellent perfect desk decoration.

Clueless, Mean Girls, and Pretty in Pink Coming to your Gaming Console Soon

Clueless, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink. Classic movies that led to super stardom for the three female leads in them. Well it seems now that since the female demographic likes to watch these type of movies (shocking), then maybe they would like to play them as games too. Well that is what Legacy Interactive and Paramount believe. Excited?! I thought so and here is a little description on what each exciting title will be about.

Clueless: The Game, you will be playing as the character Cher trying to be matchmaker to your friends. You’ll have to figure out what your friends likes and dislikes are and then put together the perfect match for you pals. As if!

Mean Girls: High School Showdown, will allow you as the player to create cliques to takedown the ulitimate clique of them all, the ” Plastic Clique.” You have the ability to do it the nice way or the nasty way, by spreading rumors and playing pranks. Gee you have to pay for a game to act this way…don’t teenagers go through this in real life for free?

Pretty in Pink, will probably be one of the only games out of the three that will focus on the movie and actually let you experience it all over again. Solve puzzles and various other tasks and relive the adventures and romance involving Andie, Duckie, and Blane.

So there you have it, intelligent, feminine orientated games that will give us the sense of empowerment by playing matchmaker and clique destroyer. Wow!!
Because you know women would never want to play as other female characters who are badass and shoot to kill. That would be sooo 90’s Lara Croft…

Heads-up Challenge Electronic Poker Table has a Touchscreen that Peels Cards

Playing poker with a real deck of cards is officially old fashioned. The Heads-Up Challenge home edition brings poker in to the 21st century. It’s an electronic poker table with a touchscreen designed for up to two players to compete on. The touchscreen is so neat that it will even let you peel up the cards. The table also shuffles cards, deals, displays showdown hand percentages and it awards pots. Unfortunately, the futuristic poker table retails for around 10 grand, so for now it will be reserved for the high rollers.

Knights’ Kingdom Chess Set Makes it Ok for Adults to Still Be Playing with Legos

If there is one toy I really miss from my childhood, it’s legos. Till this day I’m tempted to whip out some and start building, but being an “adult”, I have to keep up appearances. The Knights’ Kingdom Chess Set is a complete chess set made out of legos. That includes 32 chess pieces and 24 minifigures plus a portable storage case. So finally, I can have a good excuse for why I’m playing with legos.

Handheld Lightning Reaction Game Leaves Tremors on Losers

For those who like to torture your friends then this might just be the game for you. It’s called Handheld Lightining Reaction. Each player grabs a handle on this toy and when the music stops playing on it and the red light turns green, be the first to hit the middle button or you will get an intense shock. So for those who are sadists this might be up your alley much more so than the likes of Monopoly or Connect Four. I highly suggest playing with people who owe you money. Maybe they will get the point. [Read more]

X vs Y Electronic Board Game Pits Women Against Men

“What percent of women say they would rather work for a man than a woman?”, “How much would the average guy pay to be 6 inches taller?” and other similar questions are some of the questions that you’ll find in the new X vs Y game, a unique electronic game for adults that explores love, life, work, home, appearance, relationships, marriage and the differences between men and women through out all of that. The game comes with an electronic card scanner with automatic scoring and an adjustable volume, so you can leave the brain work left to answering the questions on the cards. You can even play a sample game right from the X vs Y web site. [Read more]

Make a Splash with the Seascooter XL Personal Water Propeller

Too lazy to actually swim? The Seascooter XL Personal Water Propeller takes care of the grunt work for you. The Seascooter allows you to zoom smoothly along the water at up to 2 mph, Duck and dive quickly to depths of up to 15 feet, and one charge will give you up to an hour of fun. Ok, we’re a little bit skeptical, but if this thing is at good as it looks, than it should be a blast to use in the water. The SEASCOOTER XL Personal Water Propeller retails for $149.95.

Make 3D Creatures from Your Printer

Here is a great activity for a rainy afternoon. FormWild software helps you create 3-dimensional animals from print outs. While following the patterns is no simple feat, at the end you’ll have created a paper or plastic creature that is much more impressive then a simple paper air plane. Amongst the kind of creatures you can create are fish, spiders, farm animals, birds and much more.

Khet Board Game Uses Real Lasers

Khet is a strategy board game that happens to have won a Mensa Select. Which means that this is a game for brainiacs. That also means we don’t quite understand how it works. “The object of the game is to illuminate your opponent’s pharaoh by bouncing your laser beam off the mirrored pieces and around the playing field.” Ok, well then. But we do like the sound of a game that involves real lasers. Khet the Laser Game retails for $43.99, should you decide to try out something more intellectually stimulating then Operation.

Commodore PCs are Back and Better Than Ever

Many of us are too young to even remember the Commodore PC, others have really fond memories of it. After a 20 year sabbatical or so, Commore is back. This time around they’re promising some screaming gaming machines. Specs like Nvidia 8800 Graphics cards and Core 2 Extreme processors certainly do look promising, and we especially like the interchangeable casing panels which can be personalized with your choice of art from a LARGE selection of choices the likes we have never seen for a desktop. On top of that they are paying homage to their history by preloading their PCs with an emulator that plays more than 50 classic Commodore 64 games. And of course, this goes with out saying but don’t expect these beauties to come cheap.

Duck Shoot Brings the Experience of the Carnival Game to your Home

Remember Duck Hunt on NES? That good old NES system even came with an infrared gun to play it with, though the gun was often frustrating to use. Duck Shoot is kind of like having a live version of Duck Hunt. You use the included wireless infrared pistol to shoot at the ducks as they move along the carnival’s conveyor belt. An LCD screen on the front registers points while an accompanying carnival barker spurs you on. While we don’t think that this is quite the most family friendly game that the description makes it out to be, it certainly does have its charm. FirstStreet is also selling a Saloon Shoot and a Gunslinger game with a similar set up.

Remote Control Golf Ball

The remote control golf ball is meant to be a practical joke. It allows you to navigate your golf ball with in a 100′ range using an included small remote control with a joystick. Of course, you wouldn’t use one of these to cheat, or would you? The remote control golf ball retails for $39.95

Arcade-In-A-Box Retro Video Game Console with Media Center PC

Forget the PS3, the Wii, and the Xbox 360. The best fun we’ve ever had playing video games is with old school arcades. Arcade In a Box brings your cherished arcade memories to your living room. It comes with 50 preinstalled games including Asteroids, Missile Command, Defender, Centipede and more. Like the arcade controls of your past, it has the same type of  buttons and joysticks, and it has a trackball built-in to its portable chassis. It also functions as Media Center PC so that you can surf the internet, watch movies, and download additional games on to it. This heavy computing power helps to justify its $1799 price tag, because putting a powerful PC in a portable retro arcade is so very cool.

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Shocking Liar Game Makes You Tell the Truth or Else

Kids, this is one game not to try at home. Strap the Shocking Liar to your victim and begin questioning them, if they tell a lie the machine will zap them with a volt. We’re assuming this isn’t really dangerous… The Shocking Liar game retails for $19.99 at Spencers.

Pressman’s iGAMEz MP3 Game Makes You Name That Tune

Pressman’s iGAMEZ MP3 Game exploits the fact that every kids nowadays has an MP3 player. Players plug their mp3 player in to the iGAMEZ  and the host secretly picks a song from their own MP3 player. The first person to guess it correctly gets a point. iGAMEZ is made for 2-3 players and is suitable for ages 12 and up.

Hammer Heads, another Addictive PopCap Game

PopCap has a knack for making addictive games such as Bejeweled. One of their latest is Hammer Heads, and no, it’s not about sharks. It’s about the imaginary gnome overload epidemic in gardens across America. The objective is to smash the happy ‘go lucky garden gnomes with mallets to earn coins. The deluxe game trial is available free to download to your PC. -Leah Cheng

PopCap Games Now Available for Mac

PopCap just announced the release of Mac OS X versions of many of their popular games, such as Bejeweled Deluxe, Zuma and Bookworm. Finally!

You can play all the games online before you purchase the full version CDs. Trust me, they are so addictive that you’ll want to play them offline too.

Create-A-Memory Talking Dreidel

It seems that Dreidels aren’t just made out of clay anymore, the Create-A-Memory Talking Dreidel is a 21st century dreidel that has room for a photo and it also allows you to record an eight second message to accompany the photo. The Create-A-Memory Dreidel comes with a stand so that it will stay put on your desk. It retails for $12.95 and is available in gold or blue.

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