Your child can help Dora and Kai-lan perform vet checkups, bathe, feed, groom, and potty-train the animals, who do tricks for thanks. Animals include bunnies, birds, puppies and kittens. Features include the ability to save up to three games. The microphone is also used (e.g., say hi to the new pet). Children can also play backyard games, dress-up the pets, and teach them tricks to earn treats, toys, and hats. Developed by Black Lantern for 2K Play. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
This is a collection of 600 puzzles for one player. Games include Sudoku – the classic numbers game in 3D; Bridges – link all the islands on the screen with bridges, making sure to match the on-screen numbers to the amount of islands you are connecting together; Boxes – divide the board into rectangles where each piece has to be included with the digit that will be the size of the boxes; Museum – light up an entire hall without overlapping the lighting with the limited number of lights given to you; and an exclusive unlockable 3D puzzle created specifically for the Nintendo 3DS. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Featuring ten animals (five bears and five large cats), this interactive animal sim lets you explore an island with a realistic looking pet. After you choose your pet, you can give it a name using the Kinect’s voice recognition abilities (you don’t actually hear your recorded voice, but your pet runs over when you say it’s name). Other voice commands include “jump,” “roll over” and “play dead,” plus you can give the Kinect general yes and no commands, which speeds things along. The story varies with each pet. If you choose a cat, you’ll solve a mystery on the island of Lemuria; bears undertake Fiddler’s Quest on the island of Mira. On both islands, you’ll be able to unlock items and personalize the gameplay experience. These items include special toys that can be unlocked by buying one of the $12 plush toys, that include a special tag. The items can be unlocked by holding a tag up to the “scan stone” at the start of the game. Microsoft now has a deal with select Build-A-Bear Workshop stores, which also use the Microsoft Tag technology. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Designed to introduce preschoolers to pre-reading and critical thinking skills, this app contains four activities: Bug Catcher – practice colors, shapes, number recognition and counting while you search for wiggly creatures to complete the collection; Present Search – follow the directions and listen to the hints to discover which of the pets is hiding a prize; Matching Duckies – a memory game where you must match the quacking ducks to reveal a message; and Barnyard Fun – master upper and lowercase letters with the help of barnyard cows. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Pink, noisy (with the default settings) but potentially fun, this dog grooming program follows a tried-and-true simulation format. You start by choosing one of six fluffy-looking dogs and then earn money by brushing it, teaching it tricks, and then go shopping. All the dogs are cute and furry; there are no basset hounds in this program. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Children can follow fourteen cookie recipes, step by step. You start by picking a recipe (e.g., “Strawberry Sugar Cookie”). Next you make the dough by adding the ingredients into the mixing bowl, one touch at a time. To crack an egg, you tap it; to slice a bar of butter, you swipe. To pour an ingredient, you have to tilt the iPad. Next you roll the dough, and pick a stamp (e.g., a sailboat or a pine tree… there are a lot). Then, you can decorate a cookie with frosting and sprinkles. To eat your cookie, you tap on it. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
This animal simulation experience for one player takes the Nintendogs concept to the big screen, with “extremely cute” realistic-looking tiger cubs and plenty of opportunities for jumping, throwing, driving and dodging. After you watch an introduction that can’t be skipped, you get to adopt one of five pet cubs (all giant cats), who will lead you through different areas of a remote island, full of movement challenges. Content includes an obstacle course (move through a maze, balance logs, duck to crawl through a tunnel, and so on), and a copy-cat experience where you teach your cat tricks using motions or voice commands. Created by Frontier Developments Ltd. for Microsoft Game Studios. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
Are you hungry for more virtual cooking? This third Cooking Mama game for the DS includes new recipes, the ability to shop, dish combinations and multiplayer cooking challenges. Using your DS stylus, you will chop, grate, catch falling marshmallows and much more — in over 200 minigames. You can create 80 new recipes including chili con carne or mushroom quiche, and the recipes progress from simple to complex, from small to large dishes. Based on the quality of your cooking, you can earn bronze, silver and gold medals from Mama, while impressing your friends with your dishes. Developed by Cooking Mama Limited. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating, and see why this received our Editor’s Choice Award.
Warning. If you’re expecting to find the charm of the original Reader Rabbit titles, first published by The Learning Company, you’re in for a disappointment. In the game, Reader Rabbit and his sidekick Sam the Lion, are flying their Dreamship when they are captured by a giant bubble wrap. They land in Balloon Town, an island made of balloons where all sharp objects including their airship are locked away in a palace. To free their airship, they must gather the 5 different instruments for the band that have been scattered around Balloon Town and use them to wake up the sleeping bull in front of the palace. Subscribers, please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.
Based on a real surgical procedure, this step-by-step simulation teaches you how to implant a small electrode in the center of a patient’s brain. The process, called Deep Brain Stimulation, is used to remedy the effects of nerve disorders such as those
caused by Parkinson’s Disease.
Your patient is a 59 year old women named Ellen, and you are provided with a case history before the procedure, which takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. You control each step — from putting the six small screws (called fiducials) into the skull by clicking on each marked spot, to inserting the electrical probe at exactly the right depth, by dragging your cursor over a lever. Later, you put in the battery packs and adjust the charge.
At various points, you’re given a multiple choice quiz asking you to justify your actions. If you make a mistake? No worries and no malpractice. The computer gently moves you to the next step.
This title was created by Clearly Trained and published by Edheads with funding from the Ohio State University Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery. Please log into our database using your password to read the full review along with our rating.