Author: GeekMom

Amid the announcement of the new pastel Joy-Cons and an unexpected sequel to gonzo multiplayer game 1-2 Switch, you may have missed an important third Nintendo news item this week; registration is now open for Nintendo Live 2023. Taking place at the Seattle Convention Center on September 1st-4th, this all-ages celebration of all things Nintendo […]

As everyone knows, the last few years have been kind of rough for the convention scene. The Covid pandemic forced events to go online in 2020, and although the last couple of years saw a return to in-person events, it’s really not until recently that we’ve been seeing a full-blown resurgence in cons. This year, […]

DC Pride #1 cover, via DC Comics. DC Pride 2023 #1 – Grant Morrison, Leah Williams, Nadia Shammas, AL Kaplan, Josh Trujillo, Jeremy Holt, Mildred Louis, Rex Ogle, Christopher Cantwell, Nicole Maines, Writers; Hayden Sherman, Paulina Ganucheau, Bruka Jones, AL Kaplan, Don Aguillo, Andrew Drilon, Mildred Louis, Stephen Sadowski, Skylar Partridge, Rye Hickman, Artists; Marissa […]

As an amateur videographer, one of the most consistent and recurrent challenges I have faced has been audio quality. The video quality was quite simple: Just record with my iPad’s back-facing camera. But the sound quality when recording this way is terrible. It is both overly sensitive, picking up noises far and near and excessively […]

The magical interplay between music files, the devices they are stored on, and the equipment they pass through to get into your ears is an arcane art that can confound many people. But the first time someone who has always listened to low-resolution audio on earbuds hears high-res music through good gear, it’s like watching […]

Those lovely people at Experiment Books are back with Helen Pilcher’s The Time Nature Keeps. It offers a visual journey through the cycles of time in nature. I love a good infographic, and The Time Nature Keeps delivers.  What Is The Time Nature Keeps? Time. It just sort of happens. It passes by and, as parents, we bemoan […]

Pac-Man originally hit arcades on May 22, 1980, and now Pac-Man fever is hitting again with the newest LEGO Icons set. Available to order starting June 4th on the LEGO website, this set is a collaboration between Bandai Namco and The Lego Group. Did you know that PAC-MAN’s yellow color was inspired by the LEGO […]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of prioritizing and supporting mental health. I had a whole month of ideas to write on, but I ended up taking most of the month to prioritize my mental health. One of the ways I did that was by using the […]

Like many of you, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks finding my bearings in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. At once a textbook LoZ title and its own thing entirely, it’s a bit of a tough nut to crack—even if my early gameplay experience admittedly gave me a leg up on […]

A long time ago, back before I wrote for GeekDad, I thought I’d try to write a book. Turns out it’s really hard. Had I written that book it would have been set in a classic “Old World” European fantasy setting, featuring an empire where religion and superstition held sway. The Justice of Kings by […]

As parents, many of us want to teach our kids important life skills so that, when they leave the nest, they can fly with their own wings. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to keep track of everything they will need to know, especially if, like me, you’re a Gen X parent with one fledgling adult and […]

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‘The Great British Bump-Off # 2’ by John Allison Artist: Max Sarin Colorist: Sammy Borras Alternative Cover Artist: Max Sarin with Sammy Borras Shauna Wickle has now passed to the exploration and interrogation phase, where she must learn what makes each of the contestants tick. However, in doing so, she has forgotten two fundamental facts: […]

In the before-times, I went to the movie theater like… twice a year. Once was usually for a big tent-pole popcorn flick—a Marvel movie or something of that caliber—and then maybe again for something niche like a special Fathom Event. Less than halfway through 2023, I’ve already made twice that number of trips to my […]

I’m going to start by breaking from the usual format to say this: Don’t take little kids to see this movie. In all honesty, if my kids were still younger than 15 or so, I would think twice about bringing them to see it, and if they were younger than 10 I would absolutely forbid them […]

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips, and Recipes for the Disabled Cook by Jules Sherred is 272 pages of tips, tricks, and recipes for anyone, but most of all, people with disabilities (whether their disability is a permanent diagnosis or temporary due to surgery or illness). The book starts out with an Introduction chapter with […]

2022 for me was a year of peripatetic gaming. I tried lots of different games and rulesets, wanting to branch out, having fallen out of love with Warhammer Underworlds. (I’ve since fallen back in love with it again, but that’s a post for another time.) I struggled to find anything that I want to stick […]

When the blasted pandemic hit, I was already going through bereavement. My four-year-old had passed away a year prior, and I could not face being stuck at home for another minute, so I ran all the way to my mum′s country house, 500 miles away from everything. Being stuck in the countryside for months on […]

May the 4th, Star Wars Day, is almost upon us, which means that LEGO is also debuting a variety of exciting new Star Wars sets. The crown jewel of these is undoubtedly Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing fighter. While LEGO does currently have an X-Wing set, it’s a small (474 piece) kit designed more for play than […]