Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

During a rare midday walk through my local northern New Jersey mall I spotted four copies of inFAMOUS on the rack at Sears. The high-scoring PS3 exclusive already has a great demo on the PlayStation Store and its street date is this Tuesday. It took quite a bit of willpower not to buy it on the spot — I’m making a pact to run through one more game in my backlog before buying it, or it goes on sale, whichever comes first — so I don’t quite know if they’d stop the sale at the register or not, but it was there in the plastic security shell alongside the other PS3 games so why not.

Also during my walk through the local GameStop, I stopped a little boy who must have been 5 at most from trying to get his parents to buy him TimeShift. It’s such an awful game that I couldn’t let it stand. Ok, ok, so I stopped and explained the ESRB ratings to his mom and dad and pointed out helpfully that TimeShift was rated M, the Transformers game dad had in hand was rated T for Violence, and picked up a random sportsball game with an E rating to give him some context. Truth be told the little guy wasn’t trying to pull one over on his parents — I don’t think he could even really read the boxes — but his parents needed to know. They thanked me, and I slunk out of the store before the hired help could mutter their thanks.

Hope everyone’s having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!