Commander: Conquest of the Americas

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Conquer the new world

Combining elements from both trading and strategy games, Commander: Conquest of the Americas will appeal to a wide range of players.

Players take charge of one of the many European powers aiming to conquer the New World. Starting from 16th century, players can choose from many different nations, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Founding new colonies and then making them thrive is key to success. In order to accomplish this, players need to manage and optimize resources and production in their colonies, before transporting the goods to other colonies or back to Europe.

Rival powers and Native Americans can prove to be allies or enemies, depending on the player decisions. Hostile fleets engage each other in highly detailed tactical level. Players can command their ships in RTS fashion or take direct control themselves.

• Conquest the New World
• Choose from 6 different European factions
• Manage your colonies: their resources, production, military and much more
• Game world spanning from Caribbean to Hudson Bay
• Naval battles with as many as 30 ships in varied environments and 2 different control modes
• Ally with the natives or manipulate them against the rival powers

System Requirements

	Minimum Specifications:
OS:	Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor:	2.0 GHz Core Duo or equivalent
RAM:	2 GB
Hard Drive:	4 GB
Video Card:	A card with 256 MB of dedicated memory with support for pixel shader 3.0. NVIDIA 7800 or equivalent
Additional Info:	Internet connection required for game activation. Laptop versions of these minimum video requirements may work but are not officially supported.
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:	Unknown

Super Why! Volume 1, Ep. 1 "The Three Little Pigs"

I have a daughter that's almost 2 years old, which means I watch a lot of PBS and CBC Kids (where this show and others like it air in Canada).

I find the show hilarious. I love that the kids that make up the team never use common sense (Red has a bunch of apples, her friend Wolf is hungry and wants one, but Red keeps asserting that all the apples are hers, then there's an emergency meet, as this is a SUPER problem,...); instead they meet and research the solution to their problem in a story book (which, as others pointed out, is a familiar story that has been re-written and cleaned up to the point of it being as uninteresting and free of any sort of conflict or hint of danger as it could possibly be, 'cause we don't want our kids to think the world we live in is in any way dangerous); as they trek through the stories, super letters are picked up and inputted into a mini (but super) computer (because G-d forbid our kids would have to use pen and paper or -gasp- remember things), letters which at the end form the answer (obvious to the adult watching as soon as the problem is hinted at) to the problem, which answer is discussed in a committee, and put into the context of the problem that started the whole thing. AND EVERY EPISODE FOLLOWS THE SAME PATTERN. And then you see the credits at the end, and everything is explained by one page that contains some 5 or 6 PhDs: you see PhD's don't use common sense, they research answers, they take something obvious and beef it up with motivation, context, similar ongoing work, quotations and references, get peers to discuss and review, and then disseminate it as if it makes a difference. Awesome.

Plants vs. Zombies (WiFi Download Only)

Requires a Wi-Fi connection to download.
This app is not tablet-optimized, but will run on most Android tablet devices (some pixelation may be visible during gameplay).
Plants vs. Zombies will not run on the following devices:
--Motorola DROID (works fine on Motorola DROID 2 and some DROID X's), Devour, Flipside
--Samsung Transform, Intercept
--HTC Aria, MyTouch 3G
--Sony Ericsson X8
--Sanyo Zio
--Kyocera Echo
--LG Ally

Chuzzle (WiFi Download)

Product Features

Must have WiFi connection to download
Not compatible with tablets
Color-match Chuzzles for points
Play four game modes
Win trophies