Family Friendly Gaming 60 in PDF Format

Editor’s DeskE3I feel so blessed again thisyear. God provided for us financiallyto have a team at E32012. We had a wonderful timeof fellowship, and focusing onthe family friendly titles. Nintendoeasily walked away withthe best press conference. Theyhad a larger focus on the familyfriendly titles, and ultimatelybetter games. Sony and Microsoftare trying to copy theWii U controller by allowingus to use our iPads, iPhones,and Android devices with theirmachines. Lets be real here -who wants to stop playing theirgame to look at information onsomething in the game on theirphone? Certainly not us. Welove how the Wii U controllerinteracts with the games. I hada blast being the puppet masterat our Ubisoft appointment.Lego Batman 2, andLego Lord of the Rings islooking great for families.They play great as well. Thoseare games that families willimmediately latch onto. Wewill continue to provide coverageon those games. Majesco iskeeping us in shape thanks toZumba Fitness Core, and NBABaller Beats. Both of thesegames are awesome. They willhelp improve the image ofthe gamer. Sega had a few PSVita titles in the form of SuperMonkey Ball Banana Splitz,and Jet Grind Radio. The realinterest to families willbe Sonic & All-Stars RacingTransformed. This home consolegame is looking great, andplays wonderfully.Natsume was impressiveagain this year. HarvestMoon A New Beginning willbe coming to the Nintendo3DS. Plus they are bringinga ton of their games onto thedigital platforms. Families thatdownload games to their consoleswill love that. 2K Play isgoing to iOS with some fascinatingand fun games. Plusthey have a new NickelodeonDance game, and a game basedon Bubble Guppies. Squarestock improved this year withmany more titles for familieslike Quantum Conundrum.D3 Publisher had a veryimpressive array of titles thisyear for families. From therecently released Madagascar3 The Video Game to iCarlyGroovy Foodie. There is also anew Ben 10 game coming out,and another movie based game.Speaking of impressivedisplays - Disney InteractiveStudios had another fantasticyear. From Where’s My Perry,to Disney Princess My FairytaleAdventure. Epic Mickey2, and Brave the Video Gameare also both playing reallywell. Their final surprise for uswas Just Dance Disney. That isa partnership with Ubisoft.Ah on to our friendsover at Ubisoft. Just Dance4 is going to be anothermega hit. Rayman Legends isawe inspiring. I can not waitto sweat thanks to Your ShapeFitness Evolved 2013, andSports Connection. EA Sportshad a nice array of sports titlesas well.Skylanders Giants isimpressive. Older family membersmay be interested in newSpider-Man, and Transformersgames. But Skylanders Giantswill dominate.On the domination topic- Nintendo will do extremelywell with the Wii U. They hada ton of great games for thatsystem. They are also increasingtheir Nintendo 3DS libraryquite nicely. We can not waitfor Nintendo to send us a WiiU to get ya’ll excited about it.God bless you, and yours,Paul BuryFamily Friendly Gaming