My Son And I Have Issues With The Latest Paw Patrol Game
Paw Patrol: On A Roll is a capable, kid-friendly platform game. Heroic hounds of every rescue discipline travel left to…
Pokémon Let's Go Helped Me Connect With My Son
“Dad, can we play Pokémon together?” my seven-year-old son Seamus asked as I wandered about Kanto in Pokémon Let’s Go!…
A List Of Weird Names My Kid Calls My Video Games
You and I, as adults, know to call things by their actual names. My kid is four, and does no such thing.
How To Play Long Video Games When You Have No Time
For a lot of gamers with demanding jobs, marriages and/or families, the excitement of reading good reviews for games…
A Straightforward Guide To Parental Controls On Game Consoles
All gamer parents want video games to be a positive part of family life, and parental controls can help achieve that…
Diapers, Divorces, And Unstable Pay: Parents On Twitch Struggle To Strike A Balance
In February, aspiring streamer Mystic hit a breaking point. When her kids started going to school, she had decided to…
Dad's Gameplay Notes Are Wonderfully Obsessive
When you play through a game, you probably make notes to yourself—mental notes. It’s unlikely you keep notebooks like…
Dad Makes Cute Lunches Based On His Daughter's Drawings
Takafumi Ozeki doesn’t just make his daughter’s school lunch, he makes it based on her drawings. The result is…
God Of War Gets The Stress Of Parenthood Right
Video games’ version of paternalism is usually reductive: parents and children rarely stray from the roles of protector…
The Best Video Games To Play With Kids
If you’re into games yourself, playing video games with kids can be one of the great joys of parenthood (or…
I Loved My First Monster Truck Rally
I’m not a gearhead, nor would I ever be mistaken for one. But this past February, I went to a monster truck rally with…
Calvin and Hobbes Showed The Trouble With Organized Sports And Father Figures
In 1990, Bill Watterson created a Calvin and Hobbes storyline in which Calvin is bullied into playing baseball during…
The Most Difficult Game To Play As A Parent
In my first year as a parent, I’ve shunned VR games, sat out Destiny 2 and surprised myself by playing through Nioh.…
My Beautiful, Perfect Children Discovered A Way To Fit Three DVDs In One Xbox
For the past year, my original Xbox One hasn’t been working properly.
When A Classroom Learns About Pokémon
My daughter is seven, and a few weeks ago her class spent the week choosing a subject to “investigate” (basically write…
Small Child Cannot Comprehend That The Game Boy Does Not Have A Touch Screen
Reminder: children born post-smartphones/tablets have not been conditioned to use buttons.
Now That I've Got A Baby, It's Harder To Enjoy A Game Like Destiny 2
I had a baby nine months ago. As you might expect, this has significantly changed my relationship with video games, at…
Shit My Kid Says Playing Zelda
As previously discussed, my son is getting pretty good at video games. Because of this, despite being only four years…
My Son Has Ruined Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
In the past couple of months there’s been a phrase that haunts me. It reverberates in my dreams and my darkest…