What do Piggy Payout, Fluffy Favourites, Pirate Princess and Jack and the Beanstalk have in common? They’re all free-to-play games launched by online-gambling casinos, who’ve now been ordered to take them down –…
To be honest they’ll have the average 10 year-old at ‘snot’. British children’s channel CBBC has launched a new mobile game called Operation Ouch! Snot Apocalypse, and it’s got all the gloopy nose-fluids a child could want.
Most children’s TV shows now have their own spin-off games, whether online, on smartphones and tablets, on consoles or all three. Most of them are still designed to be played alone, but Nickelodeon is bucking that trend.
Talking to children about death, especially when it’s a friend or family member, is something that worries many parents. A new game wants to help families open up about loved ones that they’ve lost, rather than keeping their…
Have you ever seen a virtual pets game like Nintendogs? And you’ve almost certainly seen or heard about location-based mobile game Pokémon Go. Put the two together, and you’ll get something like CurioPets, a new app that’s about to…
Try as I might, I can’t get my 10 year-old son to eat any form of potatoes. Perhaps he’ll be more amenable to the idea of programming with them. Especially if they’re pirates.
BOGIES! There aren’t any of them in the new web game from British children’s TV stars Dick and Dom, sadly. But there is a bit of science…
‘Open-world’ (or ‘sandbox’) games are the ones that let players wander, pretty much with the freedom to do what they like. Grand Theft Auto V, Skyrim and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild being three examples.
