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Low Budget Halloween Flicks that Hit Big

I tired of reading about movies that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make then don’t even break even at the box office. They usually feature some big name actor or actress that gets at least $15 to $20 million for the film. Yet, there are four low budget horror flicks that did the opposite. All four of the films I am going to talk about in this blog were filmed for less than a million total – $837,000 to be exact. Yet, the worldwide take has been more than $300 million combined for these films and that doesn’t … Continue reading →

Chocolate and Chocolatier Fun

The kids and I have a new obsession, Chocolatier. No, not chocolate. Although that is part of the fun, too. Chocolatier is actually a new computer game. The object is to travel around the world, and build a chocolate empire all the while collecting recipes for the confections and reuniting a divided family. If that sounds complicated, it’s because the game is complicated. Don’t worry though, the game starts easy enough and the players can learn as they go along. The player has to travel to different ports around the world for supplies. The boys actually learned a little geography … Continue reading →

The Wii Leads The Pack

According to a report by the NPD group, a market research firm that tracks sales in America, the Nintendo Wii is the clear leader among new-generation video games. NPD says that for the month of April, Nintendo sold around 360 thousand Wii units, leaping ahead of the ever popular Sony PlayStation 2. Microsoft Xbox 360 was the runner up with sales of 174 thousand game units. As for Sony? It sold 82 thousand game machine of PlayStation 3 and 194 thousand PlayStation 2 game consoles. I remember around Christmas time this past year when there was so much hype around … Continue reading →

Computing Review: April 23rd to May 4th

Miss an important Computing Blog? No fear, its all here in this review! Normally when we do our blog reviews here at Families.com, we highlight the past week. Well, I confess that I am a little late, so this review will actually cover almost two weeks! The time has been flying by fast since I have been blogging here in the Computing Blog. It has ben a fun adventure, and I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions! Monday, April 23rd 100 Million iPods Are Sold “At this historic milestone, we want to thank music lovers everywhere for making … Continue reading →

Spider-Man 3 Video Game is Promising

If you have boys in your house then chances are pretty good that you know all about Spiderman 3. I can’t tell you the number of times I catch little bits of the Spider-man theme floating through our house uttered by my eldest son. Spider-man is everywhere including in the third video game in a very successful Spider-man series. Created by Activision, a company that goes all of the way back to the Atari 2600 days, this third game promises the best features of the previous two Spider-man video games enhanced to a new level. In this game, Spider-man gets … Continue reading →