Microsoft’s Family Safety Bus Tour rolls into the Hartford Boys & Girls Club at Asylum Hill tomorrow in Hartford, CT.

The campaign’s bus tour provides parents and caregivers an opportunity to gather more information and learn more about the Family Settings on Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console. The bus will be outfitted with Xbox 360 consoles and laptops to surf the campaign’s website.

The foundation of the Microsoft’s campaign is a curriculum entitled “Helping Parents Protect Kids: A Family Guide to Video Games” geared for parents and caregivers. The guide will be available at a variety of places, including a 20-city bus tour.

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With the little one in bed for the night, we decided to download and play Uno on the Xbox Live Arcade.

Talk about addictive gameplay! Three and a half hours later, we’ve unlocked 10 out of 12 game achievements (83%). With a little coffee and some good luck, we’ll probably unlock all 12 before bed.

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Kellogs and Xbox have teamed up to give away handheld, mini-Xbox games in a variety of breakfast ceral boxes.

Kids (and/or parents) can collect 5 different games, including Space Blaster, Motorcycle Madness, Mystic Castle, Disco Mania and Robo Blast.

The games themselves are Tiger Electronics styled handheld mini-games and are what you’d expect to pull out of a cereal box in terms of quality.

Although the North American campaign has been running at least since August this year, this is the first time I’ve seen the boxes at my local grocery story.