One of my favorite shows on TV right now has got to be The Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. The show is currently in its fourth season and is full of excitement. It is a very exciting documentary-style reality show which features crews that fish for crab in the Bering Sea and battle the elements of Mother Nature. These fishing crews risk their lives on an almost daily basis just to complete their jobs. So when the game came out on XBOX 360 I had to check it out.

Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm puts you in the captain’s chair in charge of a crew that you get to select at the beginning of the game. You must pick your crew wisely in order to get the job done of bringing back as much crabs as possible to offload at the port. All of this precious cargo must be kept alive so you have to constantly juggle between getting enough fishing time in to getting back to port and transporting the crab there alive and well. The more crabs that you and you crew can safely get back to each port alive, the more money you all make.

The game has some fantastic graphics in it and keeps you very intrigued the whole time. The only thing I don’t like about it is the fact that you can’t get in on the fun down on the boat deck and get your hands dirty. Hopefully a sequel comes out that allows these aspects of the game, but other than that I recommend it to any hardcore Deadliest Catch fans out there.

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Out of the big three gaming consoles, the Nintendo Wii is still the hottest one out there. Sales for the popular Wii console have topped 24 million units since its introduction in November of 2006. The Wii has sold more than double what the PS3 has sold and more than 5 million additional units than the Microsoft XBOX 360. These are just staggering numbers and the Wii enjoys huge popularity amongst gamers. So why is the Wii outselling the two game consoles we all thought would be on top? Who knows, but one thing is for certain, most of the games developed for Wii have come from Nintendo itself and they are not that great. Compared to games available for the Sony PS3 and Microsoft XBOX 360, the games for the Wii don’t come close in quality or quantity.

As the Wii dominates the market, Nintendo is sitting pretty in the top spot, a place it hasn’t been in over ten years. The fact is that people like the Wii and continue to buy the games and the consoles. Even with the influx of junk titles coming out, you would think Nintendo would do something, but why? If people buy it then why change things?

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If you are also fed up with the games you have in your computer, you can have more free mac games at Macgamesandmore.com. If you have not heard of this company yet, let me give you a little information about them.

The Macgamesandmore.com is maintained by one person in the name of Cate Defrise. Check it out his Mac Blog. However the focus of their site is to recognize and publicize the work of independent Mac developers, the people who rarely get noticed.

The also offer free Mac games of your choice. There are many games to choose from such as After Dark Games which is composed of 11 games for Mac, DROD which a new strategy/RPG game for Macintosh, Mac Mahjong, and a lot more.

For more detail please visit their official site at www.macgamesandmore.com

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If you grew up in the 80’s, you probably spent all your free time at the arcade or at home playing low tech video games. Well now that you are older, there is no better time to enjoy your childhood favorites once again. Plug and Play TV Games make it incredibly easy to enjoy video games at home. First off, there is no large game console to buy; most plug and play TV games consist of a joystick which already includes all the gaming hardware and software inside- how times have changed. Secondly, set up is a breeze, plug and play TV games, simply plug into your TV set. And perhaps the best feature of plug and play TV games is the price- usually around $20. If you are looking to once again master the art of low tech video games, here are three classic video game consoles now available as plug and play TV games.

JAKKS Pacific Atari 10- in-1 TV Games

Most of us first started playing video games on the Atari 2600 video game console. While low tech, many games offered hours upon hours of enjoyment. JAKKS Pacific has created a plug and play TV game that looks exactly like the old Atari joystick, except for the fact that it includes 10 great games and connects directly to your TV set for instant play. The 10 games stored on the device are all classics and include:

Breakout, Gravitar, Real Sports Volleyball, Pong, Yar’s Revenge, Circus Atari, Missile Command, Asteroids and Adventure.

Namco Super Pac-Man Plug and Play TV Game

The all time king of video games is of course, Pac-Man. Not only was the original Pac-Man popular, but the franchise grew to include Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Baby Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, etc. Today, you can play amazing Pac-Games on the Namco Super Pac-Man Plug and Play TV Game.

This TV game uses an attractive yellow pac-esque joystick to not only control all the fun, but also store all five Pac-Man games in this small unit. This device easily hooks up to your TV set allowing anyone to start chomping the dots quickly and easily.

Commodore 64 30-in-1 Joystick Plug and Play TV Game

While the Commodore 64 was an extremely powerful and versatile computer for the 80’s and perhaps the best selling computer of all time, many of its end users did not use it to program computer code or do homework, instead it was used by millions as a glorified game system. Today, the Commodore is back. You can now play many of the wonderful games that made Commodore 64 the must have computer of its time.

The Commodore 64 30-in-1 is simply a joystick that includes all the hardware and software to play 30 classic games. Set up is a breeze and this lightweight device makes it extremely portable, able to connect to practically any TV set.

The 30 games included within the joystick are:

Impossible Mission, Impossible Mission 2, Jumpman Junior, Cyberdyne Warrior, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II Paradroid, Pitstop, Pitstop 2, Gateway to Asphai, Tower Topler, Uridium, Eliminator, Surfing, Exolon, Firelord, Flying Disk, Summer Games, Super Cycle, Silicon Warrior, Ranarama, Winter Games, Speedball, Zynaps, World Karate Championship A, World Karate Championship B, Bull Riding, Sumo Wrestling, Championship Wrestling and Sword of Fargoal.

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I am a huge fan of the Command and Conquer franchise, and despite a few missteps, I am always excited to hear a new game is coming out, so today, when I saw a post saying Tiberium Revealed, my excitement was peaked.

Tiberium is the main resource in the Command and Conquer series, and so I had to check it out. Much to my surprise, it seems like EA Games is going to try to make a Command and Conquer game outside the real time strategy genre. The new game, currently entitled Tiberium first person shooter game is said to be like Ghost Recon, and will allow you to control more than one unit of infantry and other such units.

Traditionally, Command and Conquer hasn’t done well outside real time strategy games, and so I will be interested to see if they are able to do well with this genre.

Check the C&C forum for more information about the game.

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So Gizmodo has taken an in depth look at the way the Xbox 360 handles DivX and XviD files since the fall update adding the ability to the console. I am very happy to see Microsoft continuing to expand the usefulness of the Xbox 360, and continue to find myself with more and more temptation to pick up the 120GB hard drive, since my measly 20GB one is always full.

According to Gizmodo, the way the Xbox 360 handles these new file types is pretty darn good, and after some helpful advice from people commenting, the reviewer realized it was better than he thought.

There were still some issues though, but they were only three small things:

• it needs improved handling of different video dimensions
• better playback controls
• Windows Media Center Extender support

Check out the full review on Gizmodo.

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