Fun Educational Games

Celebrate the Winter Olympics: Mario and Sonic Nintendo DS or DSi and Wii

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The Winter Olympics Games are on their way and soon we will all get involved one way or the other. The Olympics Games is a worldwide event and our kids are being exposed to it.  Why not relay their experience with a video game on their Nintendo DS, DSi or Wii.

Atari has develop a game Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games for kids (and grown up!) to relay such an important event.

For the first time in a Sonic and Mario game you will be able to use the Wii board.

Let your kids follow the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 on TV and then let them have a play trying to become super champion themselves with Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

Follow the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 and team up with your friend and family to compete in authentic Olympics disciplines. 

All the disciplines you'd expect are here:
Alpine skiing, ice hockey, speed skating, bobsleigh, figure skating and snowboard halfpipe.
In addition, you will also discover new fantasy events such as Dream Ski Cross, which sees everyone competing in a Mario Kart style race complete with familiar looking power-ups and speed boosts. Realism isn't the goal here, just good old fashioned multiplayer fun.

Key Features of the game include:

Superstar team-up: Only the second game to include Mario and Sonic characters together, featuring the official Olympics license and input from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
Worlds collide: Play as any of the characters from the original game - from Prince Peach to Vector the Crocodile, as well as first-timers Donkey Kong and Metal Sonic.
Added balance: For the first time in a Sonic & Mario game you'll be able to use the Balance Board for some events, if you have one.
The full monty: The new Festival mode lets you play through the whole of the Olympic Winter Games, including all the disciplines and an opening and closing ceremony.
Friendly rivalry: Mountains of multiplayer options, including four-player competitive tournaments and co-operative game

So get ready for the Vancouver Winter Olympics and team up with Mario and Sonic for the event.

Order Now via Amazon.com: Available on DS or Dsi and Wii

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If you have an Ipod Touch or Iphone - Check out related Apps for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

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Travel Games - Fun Educational Games for iPod

You are planning to travel ... Get ready for some Fun Educational Apps

Traveling can be fun, but at one point we as parent always face the traditional “Mum, are we there yet?”, When are we there” “I am bored” ... and so one.  Get ready to make the most of your travel and make sure to download some Fun Educational Apps before you go. 

Travelling, going to new places can be great way for our children to discover and learn new things. Take advantage of today’s technology and include some fun educational apps on your kid’s iPod Touch or your own iPhone if you let them play with it. 

Here are some Fun Educational Apps that will transform your travel experience. Each Apps can be played on the go, in the train or in the car.

Road Trip Bingo Lite: 

 Give a new dimension to bingo. With road trip bingo, your kids will have to spot things on the way, the first one to find them all wins. Simple fun and easy, it will bring some fun into long journey.

Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS2.21 or later

Cost: Free 

iSpy Kids Travel

 Don’t we all have it, Are we there yet, mum I am bored, How long before we get there ... and it goes on. Time to get your iPod Touch or iPhone out and play iSpy Kids Travel Game. iSpy is a fun and ingenious games that can be played altogether. With iSPy kids Travel, you will see pictures of things such as bus, road sign ... and you, your kids and friend will have to spot these images in the real world. The game can be played up to 4 persons and includes 2 different sets of pictures. One is for the country side and small towns and the other is for cities and area. The one that find the object first wins. 

Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS2.0 or later

Cost: 0.59£ 

The Fun Kids Car Travel Game

 This game is intended for the whole family to ply while travelling. The Fun Kids Car Travel Game contains over 200 questions, which will let you discover new things in a fun educational way. Questions are formulated in an open ended manner in order to encourage creativity, other are very straightforward. Play as a team or against or against one another. Add some fun to it and find things before the time runs out. The whole family will enjoy it. The younger ones can play with questions related to shape, number and colours, and older one can brush up on their reading skills with more advanced questions. Depending on where you are you can choose questions related to “Town” or “Country”. Write down the name of each player and keep on going, even if one has found the answer, the clock is still ticking for the others to remain in the game.  

Requirements: compatible with iPod Touch or iPhone. Requires iPhone OS3.0 or later

Cost: 1.19£

Have fun on the go and let us know if you and your kids enjoyed these games. 

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Flips - Interactive Books on Nintendo DS and DSi

Flips a new and innovative way to read books on Nintendo DS or DSi

Reading directly on your DS or DSi is now possible.

EA has developed FLIPS, a new series featuring some of the best children writers, to provide children of all age a new fun and interactive way to read books on their  Nintentndo DS and DSi. Flips have been developed in collaboration with the UKs leading publishers , including Egmont and Penguin Publishing to bring a new fun, interactive and entertaining way to read books.

Flip - Cathy Cassidy - Nintendo DS/DSi Interactive Reading

Your kids kind of like to read but would rather play on the DS or DSi....

 Then turn their DS or DSi into a book  and let them discover Flips

a new fun and interactive way to read books. Flips allows children to read in an innovative way where they can read and have access to special in-built hyperlinks to access relevant pictures, sounds and character and location information.

With Flips, readers will also have fun spotting special pictures of animals, flowers, fruit and stars hidden within the pages of each book. Collecting all of them will allow them to unlock extras like mini-games, jokes and recipes, or try out a fun personality test style quiz. 

Give Flips a Try!

Your kid will love to read books in an original, fun and interactive way. Flips will give a new dimension to their reading experience.

FLIPS - Artemis Fowl - Nintentdo DS - DSi Reading

 Artemis Fowl - a well known series of novels by Eoin Colfer , bestselling author of books for children and teens, is now available on Flips Nintendo DS and DSi. Primarily written to appeal to those between the ages of nine and 12. Flips - Artemis Fowl will make reading even more enjoyable. 

Artemis Fowl II, teenage criminal mastermind, wants to rebuild his family’s fortune after the disappearance if his father. 

Reading Artemis Fowl adventures with the Filps version of on Nintendo DS and DSi will give your child a new dimension to reading. 

Playmobil on Nintentdo DS / DSi and Wii - Nintentdo Educational

Playmobil on Nintendo -Become a Hero of Legend!

Lego and Playmobil have been around for years and are classics to kids’ fun educational games. Both concepts help children develop imagination, role play and creativity. 

Lego has already expanded its game play into the virtual world of video games on Nintentdo DS, DSi and Wii with several fabulous fun educational adventures.

It is now Playmobil turns to enter Nintendo’s world

with the launch of 2 fantastic and magical adventures on Wii and DS/DSi:

Playmobil Circus for the Wii has been inspired by the success of the Circus Playmobil play sets. With Playmobil Circus for the Wii the whole family become performers into greatest and funniest circus around. (more...) 

How Did I Turn my Kids’ iPod into a Fun Educational Games Center

Turning your kids’ iPod Touch into a fun learning center is easy.  There are many application related to math, addition, subtraction, multiplication, spelling, logic brain teaser, reading, role play... you name it and you can find it.

Impressive Number of Fun Educational Games for the iPod Touch

Many of the fun educational games are short fun games that can be played anywhere and very good while driving to school for example.

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Are you looking for something fun and educational for your kids?

Ipod Touch: Fun Educational Games and Learning Center

 When we think about fun educational video games for kids, quite often, we think about Nintendo (more specifically the DS or DSI) or PC games.
But have you thought about the iPod Touch?

Image by Gonzalo Baeza Hernández via Flickr

For a long time, in my mind the iPod Touch was like an MP3, a device only use to store and listen to music. With the explosion of the iPhone and new Ipod Touch, thousand of great applications have been developed. I started to look more closely at the iPod Touch 3rd generation and got one.

Think! Logic Trainer - Nintentdo Wii Educational

Nintendo Wii Expands Its Range of Fun Educational Games with the Launch of Think! Logic Trainer Wii

 

 
Think! Logic Trainer is an original brain training game that can help improve many cognitive abilities through play. It helps enhance language, maths, logic skills and spatial reasoning. All activities are presented on fun, imaginative and creative way. Think! Logic Trainer, a fun educational game for the whole family. It encourages you to think outside the box and help you keep your brain fit.

There are over 80000 stimulating different exercises to challenge your well toned mind. All exercises presented encourage the coordination of the right and left hemisphere of your brain. Training and stimulation of these area can help improve creativity, logical thinking and develops imagination.

Think! Logic Trainer Wii allows you to have your own personal training program where you can keep track of your progress. Throughout the game, you will be given valuable tips to help you master every challenge.

You can play Think! Logic Trainer Wii alone or use the Multiplayer Mode to compete against the whole family. Multiplayer mode allows you to compete with up to 16 players in 3 different modes: Tournament - Competition and Endurance... Make it fun and find out who has the highest "Think" quotient.

 

ESRB rated E - for everyone and produced by Conspiracy

 

Think! Logic Trainer Wii is being released on December 1, 2009 - US only (No announcement for Europe yet) and will be available for the Nintendo DS and DSi on December 15.

A special version for Kids: Th!nk Logic Trainer: Kids will also be released on December 15, 2009.

Remember:

Wii games are region specific; a game bought in the US cannot be played on European Wii console. DS games (except those in Asian language) are not region specific and can be played on all Nintendo DS, DS lite and DSi.

The future DSi games will be region specific.

Order now via Amazon:

Amazon.com -Think Logic Trainer

 

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 th!nk Logic Trainer: Kids

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World of Zoo - Nintendo Educational

World of Zoo, THQ Inc. latest games has been designed to open the gate to kids creativity and animal lovers. World of Zoo is a great fun educational game that will encourage children to discover the zoo in the way they always dreamed off. They are going to be able to care for their favored animals, create their own exhibitions and learn about all the different species through fun educational facts supported by National Geographic.

What's special of World of Zoo?

Randy Shoemaker, vice president, global brand management at THQ says:

“What truly sets World of Zoo apart is the incredible hands-on interactions you have with the world’s most amazing animals, combined with a variety of tools that lets players create and customize their own unique animals and zoo environments. Players will discover their animal’s favorite foods, activities and behaviors, all the while learning interesting information about each one. The National Geographic fun facts are something that animal lovers of all ages will enjoy and parents will appreciate.”

Benefits of World of Zoo

Family friendly fun educational games: teaches about zoo animals. It will help kids understand what is going on in a zoo and how to care for animals. It's up to the player to determine the different ways to interact with each animal to make them happy. Players are rewarded with hearts once the animal trusts them, causing a Magic Moment to occur.

Features around 100 different animals: offers the opportunity to learn about different types of species. Animals information are provided by National Geographic and are presented in a fun and educational way. Each animal is completely unique with different personalities and behaviors. It will be up to the player to determine ways to gain their trust and keep their animals happy, ultimately earning a Magic Moment from their animal.

Develops creativity: World of Zoo allows kids to create and customize their own zoo. The Animal Creator feature allows players to create a limitless variety of animals – change a penguin's hair color or create a giant-sized panda bear. Build their own zoo with more than 20 animal exhibits to choose from. Each exhibit can be tailored to kids wishes.

Great game for the whole family. Have fun and share your knowledge.

World of Zoo can be palyed on: Nintendo DS and DSi, Nintendo Wii or PC

Release date:
USA - Amazon.com - World of Zoo - Oct. 26, 2009
Europe - Amazon.co.uk - World of Zoo - 6 Nov. 2009

FreeRealms Trading Card Games (Topps) - Available this week

FREE REALMS™ TRADING CARD GAME
IN STORES THIS WEEK!

Sony Online Entertainment and The Topps Company Bring Integrated
Trading Card Game to Store Shelves  

   

DENVER, COLO. – May 4, 2009 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) and The Topps Company Inc. (Topps) today announced that the highly anticipated Free Realms™ Trading Card Game hits stores this week. Developed at SOE’s Denver studio in close collaboration with Topps, it integrates a trading card game format with the exciting online world of Free Realms, featuring more than 180 game cards as well as more than 50 virtual reward cards redeemable for exciting items in the online game.

FreeRealms - Free Family Friendly Online Video Games - Fun Educational Games

Free Realms from Sony Entertainment is now available to play on line. Free Realm is a free family-friendly online world where kids (10 and up) are able to customize their own character, discover exciting world, make new friends play mini games. Children can decide who they want to be a ninja or race kart driver, what they want to do make friends or raise pets ...it's up to them. "Players are free to do or be anything: Become a ninja, cook a yummy meal, battle goblins, set out on epic quests or connect with friends through a safe, social networking page."

Puzzles.com - Online Fun Brain Games

You like Puzzles and like to be chalenged. Then discover 

Puzzles.COM - the world's best resource for puzzling on the Internet - is about Puzzles, Illusions, Tricks, Toys, and everything around all these Great, Funny, Entertaining, Intellectual and Educational Things.

Looking for math related and brain and logic puzzle games?

Many of us have tried Sudokus but have you tried Strimko.

Disney strengthens its internet position as top entertainment for kids and family

Disney online is expanding and acquired the well know family intertainemnet Kabooze Inc. for $18 millions. Kabooze includes sie such as  AmazingMoms.com, Parentzone.com, FunSchoool.com, Zeeks.com and the company's flasgship site, Kaboose.com.

"This acquisition strengthens our position as a top entertainment destination for kids and families, and a trusted online resource for parents," Paul Yanover, EVP and managing director of Disney Online, said in a written statement. "These new Web properties complement Disney Online's category-leading kids and family sites, broadening our audience and infusing an array of new content into our sites, particularly in the baby and mom categories."

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Eye Test for Kids - iPhone/iPod Touch Apps

Many times parents are not aware that their child may have a serious vision problem, yet one in twenty preschoolers and one in four school-aged children may be having eye health issues, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Vision problems like nearsighted, farsighted, misaligned eyes and color blindness cause great problems for kids when they are learning knowledge and adapting to the colorful world, since 80% of what a child learns depends on the efficiency of the visual system. However, the fact is that 10 million children suffer from undetected vision problems.