Aside from the many puzzle games I’ve played over my yearsas a gamer, Pipe Dream has a longhistory with me as being a highly addictive experience. Whether it was playedon the Microsoft entertainment packs or on SesameStreet ABC’s 123’s, I used to love the game. And, this long history is alsoa testament to the skills that I have while playing the game (and many gamesfrom the puzzle game genre). The gameplay just comes natural to me and I lovethem dearly.  

  The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS have more than seentheir share of puzzle games over the course of the last 8 years. The portabilityof handhelds seems to be one the best reasons why puzzle games are sosuccessful on these systems and the DS’s wonderful touch screen controls makefor quite the experience. This is precisely why I enjoy being a Nintendo editorso much and why handhelds are without a doubt my favorite medium of gaming.  

When your retired father's paradise island is under duress from environmentally unfriendly people, it's up to you, his son (or daughter) to grab your pipe wrench and get busy. This is the basic story behind Pipe Mania, a new game by Empire Interactive based off an old puzzler they released in 1989 named Pipe Dreams.  

When your retired father's paradise island is under duress from environmentally unfriendly people, it's up to you, his son (or daughter) to grab your pipe wrench and get busy. This is the basic story behind Pipe Mania, a new game by Empire Interactive based off an old puzzler they released in 1989 named Pipe Dreams.

Point and Click enthusiasts behold as yet another mystery title has hit the Nintendo DS. Utilizing the many advantages of touch screen controllability, the mystery franchise has had big success on this portable player. But does Unsolved Crimes deviate from the well known formulas enough to make this game worth your time or is it just another rehash of mystery monotony?

Since the beginning of time math teachers have tried to convince their students that arithmetic is actually a fun and rewarding activity.  Even at a young age the BS detector would sound wildly; how in the world could something so seemingly unnecessary be practical, let alone fun?  I mean, we had the Apple II, surely nothing was more fit to handle all mathematical calculations in the human world.  Why even learn math?  As it turns out, with the advent of to Sudoku craze, all of those teachers from our collective past were at least partially right, math is fun, in the right context.