Last year, I got a Sony PSP for my birthday. I've enjoyed playing lots of games on it, mostly sports games like Madden Football, NBA Live, and FIFA Soccer.

Being a computer teacher, I wanted to checked out some of the other cool features this PSP has. And it is definitely more than a toy!

First of all, the PSP has full access to the Internet. This means that if you can connect to a wireless internet "hotspot", you can check your email and surf the web. Pretty cool! Does this work at school? No. The school's wireless internet network has special security which won't allow PSP's to get online.

If that wasn't cool enough, I also found out the PSP can be used as a phone!!! The PSP has a special program called Skype which allows you to connect to the internet, and then make phone calls. You need a special micro ...

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1) How fun is the game?  What makes it fun?

2) How are the graphics and music?

3) How easy or difficult is it?

4) Who would enjoy the game?

I am playing  game called "Final Fantasy 3", a re-make of a game from 1990, that was never released in North America.  It is a role-playing game, or RPG.  This means you control a team of people who travel around, trying to defeat evil.  Your characters increase in their abilities as you gain ...

Sony just announced an update to their "Portable Playstation" or PSP.  It will be called the PSP-2000.  Here's a picture:

It's a little thinner than the old one, with better battery life, and more RAM.  "RAM" stands for "Random Access Memory."  When a computer has more RAM, it is able to do things more quickly.  The PSP-2000 will have 64 megabytes of RAM, instead of 32 like the old one.  This means it should have less "load times."  With the old PSP, you have to wait for the game to "load" before you can play.  The new PSP should be faster.

It also has a video-out port, so you can plug it into a television.  I'm not sure why you would want to plug it into a television.

It has the same ...

 A Nintendo Wii?

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Today, a group of grade 4 students did a presentation for “I Love to Read Month.”  Their ending message was: “Turn off your electronics, turn on a book!”

It got me thinking….

This is my current favourite game right now: Brain Age. 

This is a game available for the Nintendo DS.  It is a game created by a Neurologist that follows the premise that simple, daily mental exercises can keep one's brain healthy and even prevent the early onset of neurological disease.  This premise made this game a run-away hit in Japan when it was first released in 2006, especially among older people who wanted to prevent Alzheimers disease.  I'm not sure if it can truly keep you healthy, but I do know it is a fun and addictive game. 

The game leads you through different mini-games that focus on different parts of the brain: math-fact quizzes, oral reading, drawing, memory games, and more.  This is one of only a few games I know of that is popular with ...

Elite Beat Agents is another one of my favourite games.  There's no violence, just lots of great graphics, pumpin' music, and addictive gameplay.

If you checked Internet game ranking websites in December 2006, you would have seen this game at the top of a lot of lists.  It also won GameSpot's "game of the year."

So what is it?

Well, you might read the title and assume it involves shooting badguys or some other form of solve-problems-through violence type of a story.  But you would be wrong.  In fact, there is no violence in the game at all.

In the game, you help a team (called the Elite Beat Agents) as they travel the world and help various people in different, comical problems.  For example, the first perso ...