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Gamestar Mechanic! Gamestar Mechanic! Expert Guidance on Children’s Interactive Media www.childrenstech.com October 2010 Volume 18, No. 10, Issue 127 REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE Camp Rock: The Final Jam Chuck E. Cheese’s Party Games Club Penguin: Game Day! Daring Game for Girls Disney Guilty Party Help! I’m hooked on Elements, The Family Party: Fitness Fun Fancy Nancy: Tea Party Time FIFA Soccer 11 GameStarGameStar Mechanic!Mechanic! Gamesalad (www.gamesalad.com) GameStar Mechanic Haunted House Hollywood Squares Jungle Time LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 LEGO Universe Madden NFL 11 Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet Mattel Avatar iTag Action Figure Motion Math MySims SkyHeroes Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Edge Old MacDonald Piano Park Math Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Polar Plunge Raving Rabbids Travel in Time Readeez Folderfuls Record a Story Roblox (roblox.com) Samurai Warriors 3 Search for Wondla, The School Loop Student Tracker Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions Sports Champions Story Reader 2.0 Tam & Tao in Numberland Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Piano App Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Wii Party Wooly Wormies: Tell the Time Yumsters! 2 LittleClickers.com: Healthy Eating E-Line Media’s GameStar Mechanic is an exciting new teaching tool. Price: $24/year for 12 PDF issues But it may raises questions about the use of “freemium” materials in http://childrenstech.com/subscribe/ government sponsored contests and in public school classrooms. The conversation is contineud on page 2. News & Commentary on Children’s Tech Help! I’m hooked on Geek Test GameStar Mechanic! Everyone has a little geek inside October 2010 I was up early, trying to shoehorn a them. But how much is too much? Volume 18, No. 10, Issue 127 few more new titles into this issue. One Here's a way to find out. If you check of these was GameStar Mechanic, the more than four of the items below, EDITOR Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D., ([email protected]) [WB] new flash-based programming toolkit. I you're probably a bit too geeky. was especially interested to see how __ You put two (or more) GPS devices in one car to compare EDITORIAL COORDINATOR & GameStar Mechanic compared to MIT’s CIRCULATION MANAGER their accuracy. Lisa Della Fave ([email protected]) Scratch, in part because the publisher, __ Your house has so many LEDs E-Line Media, is co-sponsoring a pro- you don’t need a night light. LITTLECLICKERS Bobbie Nester gramming contest in which I’m a judge __ You go to a friend’s house for a (the National STEM Video Game dinner party, and end up running OFFICE MANAGER Challenge Developer Prize). disk utilities to check for bad per- MaryBeth Griffith I was tired, and I hardly wanted to missions. ([email protected]) __ In choosing a hotel, free Wi-Fi (by play another game. But GameStar the pool) is the deal breaker. ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS cost pulled me in. Before I knew it, it was __ You wake up in the morning with $24/year, for 12 issues, $108 for print & time for lunch, and I had advanced in an ear bud in your nose. electronic issues including online database access. rank to “League Newbie,” having pub- __ You simply can’t pass up a bin full Issues are sent monthly. 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Send two products, Concourse. with release information to Lisa DellaFave, tion plan that offers extra features and __ You ask the UPS guy to stay for a Editorial Coordinator, 120 Main Street, content to children who pay. demo of the gadget he just deliv- Flemington, NJ 08822 (Phone: 908-284-0404) In addition, it uses automatically ered. renewing subscriptions, unless you Did you check more than four? You’re EDITORIAL GUIDELINES. We want our readers to a geek. know that there are no ulterior motives behind our notice the warning email and opt out. reviews. CTR follows a set of editorial guidelines When kids and busy parents are found at (http://childrenstech.com/editorial- involved, I think this is a bad idea, guidelines/). Highlights include: but I’ll leave that question to you (I • We don’t sell software or profit from products that created a blog post where I go into we review. 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If you’ve lost or forgotten your password, please call 800-993-9499 between 9-3 PM EST. 2 Directory Grouped by age All Ages Haunted House, www.atari.com, p. 15 CTR Editor’s LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Record a Story, www.pubint.com, p. 12 Choice Selections, www.warnerbros.com, p. 9 Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity October 2010 Preschool & Kindergarten Gauntlet, www.thq.com, p. 9 Titles or products Old MacDonald Piano, Mattel Avatar iTag Action Figure, that scored well on www.kiboomu.com, p. 11 www.t-immersion.com, p. 16 our instrument are listed Park Math, www.duckduck- MySims SkyHeroes, www.ea.com, p. 10 here. These are known as the Editors’s moosedesign.com, p. 11 Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs, Choice for this issue. Story Reader 2.0, www.pubint.com, p. 18 www.nintendo.com, p. 16 Tam & Tao in Numberland, Raving Rabbids Travel in Time, Ubisoft, Club Penguin: Game Day!, www.dis- http://lestroiselles.com/en, 13 p. 17 neyinteractivestudios.com Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Piano App, Roblox (roblox.com), www.roblox.com, Disney Guilty Party, www.disneyin- www.kiboomu.com, p. 19 p. 17 teractivestudios.com Wii Party, www.nintendo.com, p. 14 FIFA Soccer 11, www.eagames.com Early Elementary GameStar Mechanic, www.games- Club Penguin: Game Day!, www.dis- Middle School tarmechanic.com LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 neyinteractivestudios.com, p. 5 Hollywood Squares, www.warnerbros.com Fancy Nancy: Tea Party Time, www.encoreusa.com, p. 16 Madden NFL 11, www.eagames.com www.thq.com, p. 7 LEGO Universe, www.mindstorms.com, Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Jungle Time, p. 16 Infinity Gauntlet, www.thq.com http://jungleeducation.com, p. 8 Madden NFL 11, www.eagames.com Motion Math, www.motionmath- Motion Math, Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s games.com www.motionmathgames.com, p. 10 Edge, www.herinteractive.com, p. 10 Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water’s Polar Plunge, www.webkinz.com, p. 11 Samurai Warriors 3, www.nintendo.com, Edge, www.herinteractive.com Readeez Folderfuls, http://readeez.com, p. 17 Old MacDonald Piano, p. 17 Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, www.kiboomu.com Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, www.activision.com, p. 12 Park Math, www.duckduck- www.disneyinteractivestudios.com, 13 Sports Champions, www.us.playsta- moosedesign.com Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, tion.com, p. 12 Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, www.disneyinteractivestudios.com, p. Search for Wondla, The, p. 18 www.activision.com 19 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, www.ea.com, Sports Champions, www.us.playsta- Wooly Wormies: Tell the Time, 13 tion.com www.voxelbeast.com, p. 14 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Elements, www.touchpress.com www.encoreusa.com, p. 19 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Upper Elementary Yumsters! 2, www.g5e.com www.ea.com Camp Rock: The Final Jam, www.dis- Wii Party, www.nintendo.com ney.com, p.
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