If your kids are fans of last year’s hit Activision game Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, then get ready for a whole new wave of gaming fun with Skylanders Giants. This expansion hits stores on October 21st and includes new characters and gameplay options that your kids will love.
Continue ReadingHasbro has reinvented laser tag for the new generation; the apple generation that is. I first learned about the system earlier this year and it looked promising. I’m happy to say that the fleshed out product is just as much fun as it was originally advertised. Compatible with the iPhone (3GS and up) and iPod (4th generation and up), this new laser tag is a ton of fun for the entire family.
Continue ReadingIt’s set to include a whole new range of Skylanders characters for kids to collect and enjoy. There are Giants who tower over standard-sized figures and have their own special powers and new Lightcore figures that light up when placed on the Portal of Power.
Continue ReadingThe next Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion isn’t due out until November 7th, but we’ve got your first look at three new cards from the 140 card set.
Continue ReadingWould you say you had a plethora of dice? Many geeks do, having anywhere from a set or two of the seven traditional polyhedral dice to having bags of the stuff, where they end up being the ones supplying dice to everyone at the table. Perhaps you even have a special die or two that have special meaning or purpose. Or your favorite one. Or your lucky one. But my guess is that most of you don’t have dice like these.
Continue ReadingThe Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters Core Set doesn’t launch unti September 7th, but GeekMom has this exclusive first look at the King Coral card!
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My family had the chance to review Melissa & Doug’s Suspend, the winner of the Best Toys Guide: Best Game of 2012. As with everything my family has ever owned by Melissa & Doug, we were not at all disappointed.
Continue ReadingToca Boca delivers another quality kids’ app with Toca Train.
Continue ReadingThese games are so much fun my kids don’t even notice they’re strengthening their math skills.
Continue ReadingThe Game of Life was first created over 40 years ago by Reuben Klamer. Since its creation, the game has undergone some changes to keep up with the times. None of the changes have been quite as drastic as they are in the latest edition, The Game of Life: zAPPed Edition for iPad .
Continue ReadingJosh Rowe, the creative director for Build with Chrome, let me in on a little Easter Egg. Legos come in all sorts of colors, but not so for Build. It turns out there were some issues with “WebGL shaders work and the complexity of the 3D scenes.” In other words, they could make it fast, or they could offer 150 colors. They went with fast. I’d say that’s a good call. Here’s how you get pink back.
Continue ReadingWhen I was in school, Reading Rainbow was one of my favorite TV shows. The signature theme song would get stuck in my head for most of the day after watching whichever episode my teacher put on for us. Levar Burton felt like a friend I had met in the library and I looked forward to the books he would use in each episode. The thing I really liked about Levar was how excited and eager he was to read each book. I feel like his enthusiasm to read rubbed of on me a little bit.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve got kids or just really like Lego – that pretty much includes everyone, right? Use your Chrome browser to navigate to Build with Chrome and start grabbing a piece of virtual Australia or New Zealand. The rest of the globe will still have to wait.
Continue ReadingThe iCade mobile is the newest addition to the iCade line. Designed for iPhone / iPod touch devices, this little guy is a nice addition to my pile of iDevice accessories.
Continue Reading30 summer project ideas for kids.
Continue ReadingNeed a new challenge for your summertime Lego builds? Look no further than M.C. Escher.
Continue ReadingI used to tabletop game many years ago. And then I had kids, and all my games got shoved into the back of the closet and away from swallowing and scattering little hands. These days, there are many things that prevent me from doing it, including time, messy living room, storage space, childcare arrangements, and geographic proximity to other players. Tabletop Forge doesn’t have any time travel technology to give me a couple extra hours for gaming, but it can help with the other problems.
Continue ReadingI am relatively new to Magic: The Gathering. I remember hearing about it, years ago when it was new. But it seemed that only kids played it. No one I knew was into it. I was 20 by the time it came out in 1993, busy going to college, so it passed me by. I always loved board games, but I couldn’t afford collectible card games which required money to keep buying cards to improve your deck
Continue ReadingCalliope Games has just announced this Kickstarter for a beautiful new version of the game Tsuro which was introduced back in 2004. In this new version, you’re captain of an Imperial Red Seal ship. Your mission is to spread the word of the Emperor, avoiding monsters and staying on the board.
Continue ReadingLARPing or Live Action Role Playing is an incredibly popular and misunderstood part of geek culture. The image many have of loners who live in their parents’ basements eating junk food only to emerge on the weekends as wizards and warriors couldn’t be further from the truth.
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