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12Feb
It’s Game on for The National STEM Video Game Challenge
It’s time to get a group together and submit to enter the annual National STEM Video Game Challenge presented by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and E-Line Media. The challenge hopes to inspire students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math through video games. Entries from US students in Middle School and High School can enter through the website. Both categories can have teams (of up to four students) or individual entries. Entries can be created with any game-making platform or a written game design concept. Here are some example game making platforms: Gamestar Mechanic Microsoft’s Kodu GameMaker Scratch Moms and Dads, please encourage your kids to enter! This is a great way to encourage creative thinking and possibly expose your child to a future career. There will be design workshops and events in cities across the country to help prep for this contest. Entries are being
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12Feb
Review: Hip Hop Dance Experience – Ubisoft
Thank you to Ubisoft for sponsoring this post. Please visit Ubi.com to learn more about Ubisoft. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. #UbiChamps This review is a tad bit delayed because the title came out when I was in the last few weeks of my pregnancy. You know, right around the time where you feel as big as a whale, have no energy, and can barely move? Yeah. So dancing in my living room was not going to happen. I’m not 100% yet from after the birth, but I was able to try out the Hip Hop Dance Experience on low settings. I look forward to using this game as a way to burn calories and get back to pre-baby weight. The title features 40 songs in the Hip Hop Genre (one of my favorite genres) and the following game modes: Dance Party
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11Feb
Mr Potato Head as Marvel SuperHeroes
It’s Toy Fair time in New York which means we should see announcements of many new cool toys that will be on the market. Not all of them for kids but most are for the “older kids”. Those of us that love to buy our toys and leave them in the box. Hasbro, Marvel and PPW Toys are releasing a line of Mr Potato Head figures wearing costumes of various Marvel Super Heroes. The line will launch this summer. PPW Toys is marketing this Mr. Potato Head for the collectors. The spuds will have components that you can mix and match. The 2013 lineup will be Wolverine, Iron Man and Thor. For more information follow PPW Toys on Twitter.
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08Feb
Here I go Again Pulp Angels review
For this Pulp Angels review, we read Jen Lancaster’s Here I Go Again as part of the Blog Her reading club. I loved High School. Maybe I’m delusional about my “status” at the school, but I had a great time. I was on a World Champion Dance Guard team, had tons of great friends, and was a member of as many clubs as I could join (I think that started my need to multitask). Highschool was full of friends, laughter and good times. For Lissy Ryder, High School was where she dominated. As part of a Heather’s type group called the Belles, Lissy ruled the school and her “friends”. She set trends and lashed out harshly at those is slightly different social classes than her. In Here I Go Again, Lissy is about to attend her twenty year high school reunion when basically her “perfect” life, falls apart. Her high
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07Feb
Hyperion Books takes on She-Hulk and Rogue romance books
Hyperion Books is working with Marvel to publish two novels focused on female superheroes. The novels are set for a June release, and while promise to be action packed, the written description in the press release is very much focused on the fact that for each of the heroines they are looking for love. That’s right two novels that star women that seem to come right out of the Bachelor. She-Hulk Diaries will follow Jennifer Walters as she works during the day and battles villains, but also “trying to navigate the dating world to find a Mr. Right who might not mind a sometimes very big and green girlfriend”. Rogue Touch will follow Rogue as she goes through the challenge of finding romance when she can’t touch anyone. She has run away from home after putting her first boyfriend in a coma. She meets another guy and “sparks fly”. The
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05Feb
Show support for indie game Pingo
Pingo is a new puzzle game created by Eve Park, an indie games developer. In Pingo, the player earns points by creating poker hands along any direction. There are a two modes, Casual and Speed mode and for players that aren’t familiar with Poker can go through the tutorial levels. Pingo is part of the OUYA Create contest which runs from January 23- February 18th. Check out Pingo (which is also looking for playstesters) by checking out the video above and sharing it. Check it out and support Indie Female game developers!
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31Jan
UCB students put on King of Kong the musical
Thanks to a tip from @docwho76, if you are near the UCB area and looking for something to do, tonight a group will put on an 8-bit musical version of “King of Kong”. That’s right. A musical based on the video game documentary film about Billy Mitchell and Steve Sanders rivalry over Donkey Kong. Writers/actors Zach Paez and Matthew Patrick Davis are used to adapting odd choices into musicals. They have previously worked on “Jurassic Park”, “Shining” and “NeverEnding Story.” The performance is $5 and seems to only be tonight at 5915 Franklin Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90028. Here are a couple of songs from the musical:
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29Jan
Madden predicts Super Bowl winner is the Ravens
The other day I thought the Superbowl was last weekend. That somehow I missed it already. Hence the blur of time that is motherhood. Turns out the Superbowl hasn’t happened yet, but Electronic Arts has used Madden 13 to predict the winner. This year the winner (according to Madden 13) is the Baltimore Ravens over the 49ers with a score of 27-24 (tight match). It’s worth noting that EA has correctly forecasted seven of the last nine Super Bowls. Here’s the play by play action: Of course you can continue to follow the fun on Facebook where the Madden team will be interviewing athletes and providing fans with an inside look to the superbowl.
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22Jan
Approaching a life change with games
Thank you to Ubisoft for sponsoring this post. Please visit Amazon.com to get your own copy of Far Cry 3, today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day! I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. All opinions are my own. Before giving birth to Miranda, there were days where I was just to physically exhausted to do anything. Too exhausted to move or clean (or maybe feeling just too heavy), so instead I laid around during the day. That last week knowing that your life is completely about to change is an amazingly stressful one. Add to it that my husband and I both had the flu and it made for a stressful and miserable one. Miranda was still going to come regardless of my health, so I needed to destress and relax.
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15Jan
What I read January 13th
Hi everyone! How are you doing? I hope that you are avoiding the plague. I, unfortunately caught it which doesn’t leave much room for working on GamingAngels or reading/gaming on my own. When you’re a kid, you LOVE sick days because all you do is relax, read and play. Or at least that’s what I did. But when you’re an adult, you have to work through it, or you sleep. With this flu, I found myself sleeping more than not. But that could also have to do with the fact that I’m 9 months pregnant. lol This past week I’ve only read two books. One is for pumpkin so it’s almost cheating. While my volume of output is pathetic, the books themselves were pretty cool. In continuing with the Archie theme, I read the book above (another score from a SDCC long ago). This book differs in that it basically
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