Daily Archives: November 13, 2012

Photo-A-Day

Activision Family Game Summit – Day Two of the New York City Family Adventure

NYC Trip
Photo-A-Day #2776

*This is day two of our New York Adventure*

On most trips for blogging I go alone. I’ve never taken the family on any major trip to a blogging event since I’ve been doing this. We did go on one trip to Orlando for IZEAFest back in 2009, so okay we did do it once before but that was Orlando, we’d been there before as a family. This was New York City and we were going by train and then staying in the city. The kids had never seen a huge city before, never seen skyscrapers and all the activity. Sure we’ve been to Boston and Providence but that does not compare. We were going to be taking subways, seeing sights and doing all sorts of things that we had never done before as a family. It was certainly an adventure. On day two of the trip the adventure continued to the Activision Family Game Summit. Continue reading Activision Family Game Summit – Day Two of the New York City Family Adventure →

Review, Transformers, Video Game

Review: Transformers Prime The Game for the Nintendo Wii & DS

I’ve played every Transformers game for the Wii that has come out. All the movie ones, the Cybertron ones and now I got my hands on a copy of Transformers Prime the Video Game. Some of the past games have missed the mark but this one has impressed me from the jump. The story follows team Prime (Optimus, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Arcee and Bulkhead plus the kids Jack, Miko and Raf) as they try and stop the Decepticons from obtaining a asteroid sized chunk of dark energon. You take on the role of a different Autobot with each mission starting with Optimus Prime. I liked this because some games you never got to play Optimus until much later. He’s a fan favorite and I think it is great that you can play him first. Continue reading Review: Transformers Prime The Game for the Nintendo Wii & DS →