Below are the daters and prices for this year’s line-up below.

	February 1	.99
	February 8	.99
	February 15	.99
	February 22	.99
	February 29	.99

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#1: Specialized Hardware Has a Place

People buy digital cameras in addition to the cell phone cameras they already have because the quality gap justifies a separate device. In the future, even if smartphones and tablets do eventually catch up on the software front, there is always the potential for some gaming specific hardware. Today, analog sticks and face/shoulder buttons are the key differentiating piece of gaming hardware, but tomorrow it might be a head tracking device.

#2: The gap between home consoles is small

When laptops were far inferior to desktops, people stuck with desktops. When the gap got small enough, the whole market switched to laptops and never came back. The game performance difference between a PSP and a home console (PS3/360) was huge, but between a Vita, it’s not. The PSP launched in 2005, right on the eve of the 360 launch. Today, there is probably still another two years or so until the next big home console.

#3: People love portability

Portability isn’t just for a long train ride or flight. Look at how people use their laptops: they use them in coffee shops, meeting rooms, on their front porch, into their beds, etc. People want lifestyle flexibility and they want the same thing from games. People don’t want to be confined to enjoying their games in a specific missionary position in their living room.

#4: Nicer hardware and system OS than home consoles

The Vita hardware is nicer, newer, and has a more premium feel than home consoles. Additionally, the system OS is more elegant in terms of managing your games, multitasking, and chatting/messaging/party functionality. The downsides relative to home consoles are the controls are smaller, the display and resolution are smaller, and the Vita uses much more expensive Flash memory and cartridges compared to home consoles with their cheap 50GB blu-ray discs and their huge laptop hard drives.

#5: The Vita is Unique

For today, the Vita doesn’t have a close competitor. There is a lot of competition from the 3DS, iOS/Android, and home consoles, but nothing plays high-end console games in a portable form factor like the Vita.

Bottom Line

Other platforms need exclusive franchises to attract a player base. The Vita’s appeal is that you can play games from the the same pool of top-tier console titles with nearly full parity of the home systems, on a portable handheld device with the physical and system OS improvements.

I predict that once some of the hit 2012 multi-platform games get Vita releases, the system will really take off.

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It sucks when you’re hungry. Sometimes you just want to bury your face into a burger, or tear into a taco. Out on the African savannah, a Hungry Giraffe feels your pain.

A 20 foot tall, 1200kg animal like the giraffe needs to chow down on tons of food each day, just to stay alive. But, oh no! All the tastiest leaves have been eaten, while up in the sky endless quantities of snacks, fruit and junk food hover just out of reach!

Hungry Giraffe features the world’s largest and hungriest even-toed ungulate. Through skillful steering of his neck, you can propel your half-starved giraffe on his twisty-turny upward journey, chomping on strawberries, fries, sandwiches and naughtier treats.

But beware! The skies are also strewn with hazards. Poison, Anvils and non-prescription Drugs also hover up there, ready to send unwary giraffes plummeting to earth.

Hungry Giraffe is by FAR the greatest giraffe-feeding game of all time! Dare you miss out?

Intro text and trailer give you a pretty good idea of what you need to do in this game. The giraffe is hungry, feed it! Move the giraffe and eat as much food as you can to rise and rise as far up as you can. Junk food gives you more calories, thus giving you a bigger speed increase. Healthy food has less calories, but is still useful when you need to make it to the next set of fries and burgers.

While climbing, you better watch out for dumbbells since they will make you heavy and will take a bit to leave the digestive system (go eat one and let me know when it is out). You also need to stay far, far away from anvils since they instantly stop you, looney toons style. Poison is bad as well as it will make you vomit over the screen, obstructing your view of the action. Oh, and you must also avoid pills. Pills will send you flying on a different trip, bringing a technicolor haze to the screen while also inverting your controls. You know, like regular pills.

But it is not all doom and gloom for our giraffe, as we can also get some help from two particular items: Hard hats and Chili Peppers. Hard hats act as a boost that makes you invincible (anvils, beware!), sending you flying up for a handful of seconds. You should save them as a last resort for those times when you just couldn’t reach the next food item. Chili Peppers will also provide you with a speed boost, but you must still avoid any hazards since you’re not invincible.

If you’re good enough, you can play all stages at once, starting from the first one and unlocking each new one as you eat and climb to the sky. If you lose, you can start back from stage 1, or you can continue from the last stage you managed to unlock.

There is an in-game awards system that recognizes your achievements in this minis adventure, and those are always great for bragging here and there. Some examples are:

Fast Food King: Eat 3,000 Fast Food Items
Caliente Jirafa: Eat 400 Chili Peppers
Fully Pumped: Eat 100 Dumbbells

After you have complete level 10, the scenery loops back to stage 1, but the difficulty increases. How many laps can you complete? Doing a single run is not that hard, but making it to a second lap in one go will definitely require your complete attention and devotion.

The game might sound simple, but it is very addictive! Time will fly as you try to beat your last highscore, or when going for a full Stage 1 to 10 run. Laughing Jackal managed to make the game look better when playing on the PS3 (which is a first for a minis release), and it was a nice surprise when going back and forth between the PS3 and the PSP for this review.

Hungry Giraffe is a very addictive minis that will give you hours of fun before you even realize it. The need to beat your high score, unlocking all achievements, and making “one last try” will make you get the most mileage out of this minis purchase.

Cost – .49

Disclaimer

Total amount of time played: 4 hours.

This review is based on a PSP/PS3 copy of Hungry Giraffe provided by Laughing Jackal.

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Duration

How long an individual will take to detox depends on how severe the addition has been and how long they have been addicted. A person’s physiology and their personality will also play a significant role in how long detoxification will take. The process may take several days or can take a number of weeks.

Withdrawal

Individuals often experience several symptoms when the go through withdrawal. Most commonly, people will feel anxiety, become depressed, and have trouble sleeping. In addition they become irritable, experience sudden mood changes, and crave drugs or alcohol. The possibility of seizure is present during the detoxification process. The seizures can be severe or mild and can last for several days.

Detox

Inpatient treatment centers typically include medical detoxification as part of their program. It is important that there is continuous stability between the start of the cleansing process through the end of the rehabilitation treatment plan. Individuals feel more secure in knowing that they have a skilled team of professionals who will care for them throughout the process.

Support

The support of dedicated counselors, nurses, and doctors who help people through this physical and emotional process is very important. These skilled professionals can help make this difficult process less traumatic and more successful. The success of the detoxification process can lead to long-term success with an individuals treatment program.

24-Hour Care

Because of the symptoms a person can experience during the withdrawal process, twenty-four hour supervision by medical personnel is vital. The medical team includes doctors and nurses that have extensive training and experience in all phases of the decontamination process. Once the individuals system has been cleansed of the harmful poisons from alcohol and drugs, they will be ready to proceed with their treatment program.

Individual Treatment

An individual pot counseling plan should be developed for each person before they enter detox. With a specifically designed treatment plan individuals will have a better chance at success. When the individual has completed the detox phase of treatment, they can move on to rehab. Rehab allows the individual to heal physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Where do you get your games? Do you get them at online stores like Big W, Amazon or Argos? Or do you get them at local stores such as Gamestop, FYE, Best Buy, Target, etc.

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