Every kid wants to play games, and geeks keep that interest as they get older. Either way, most video games are prohibitively expensive, meaning kids and adults who could be enjoying their favorite pastime are missing out. To pile on, it’s expensive to give our kids their first devices, so it can be hard to […]
Continue ReadingIt’s not easy being a professional football player. A lot is riding on the line in each game, and even more so if you’re the quarterback leading your team. Just when the pressure is mounting for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, the PAW Patrol pups come to the rescue with a perfectly timed PupTalk. Alone in […]
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See which books the GeekFamily writers have been enjoying this year to glean some gift ideas for your own family.
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Waterdrop was kind enough to send me their 2024 advent calendar to check out and here are my thoughts. What is Waterdrop? Waterdrop is a water flavor enhancer that boasts being healthy, low calorie, and sugar free. The product itself is a little “pod” that you drop into a cold glass of water (regular or […]
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ATEEZ’s dark, dystopian science fiction celebration of creative freedom is now available in diary form in ‘The World: To the End.’
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From our gaming tables across the country, here are a selection of some of our current favorites to share with your friends and family this holiday season.
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Each year I get the absolute plum gig of compiling our annual list of must-buy toys for the holiday season. My fellow GeekParents and I test them out, write them up, and then it’s over to me to place them in… well, whatever weird order strikes my fancy at the time. This year’s guide sees […]
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A sentient library, four odd friends, and a fairy behind every door. Take a journey into Fairy with HG Parry.
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Towers are often represented in fantasy fiction. Whether it’s the Tower of Babel, The Two Towers, or the Dark Tower from the… erm… Dark Tower series by Stephen King, something is compelling about an unassailable edifice driving into the sky. They offer a multi-strata world, that literally has an in-built hierarchy. Alongside great novels such […]
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Several years ago a fellow teacher mentioned a book titled The Saber-Tooth Curriculum as a book that every educator should read. At that time there were many discussions about helicopter parents, lawnmower parents, tiger parenting, and so forth so I believed a saber-tooth curriculum was something along those lines. However I recently had the opportunity […]
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In “Reaping the Rewards,” I take a look at the finished product from a crowdfunding campaign. Stonespine Architects was originally funded on Kickstarter in July 2023, and was delivered to backers in the spring of 2024. This review is an updated version of my original Kickstarter Tabletop Alert. The minotaur apprentices have one final project: constructing […]
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There are songs for Halloween and songs for Christmas, but here are five songs I like to enjoy in late November.
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“I’m the swine you love to hate.” “When isolation leads to madness, a revolution of the masses.” For this smoking volcano of Xennial feminist rage, music both fuels the fire and calms the spirit. Coming to adulthood in the late 1990s meant the music that raised me included artists like Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, […]
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Alana Joli Abbott from Outland Entertainment is here to tell us all about this new game and picture book project.
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In need of a free standing story telling device for your kids? StoryPhones are award-winning SafeAudio®, smart headphones for kids that play audio content offline, offering a screen-free entertainment experience.
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What started out as a self-contained university experiment turned into a media spectacle that captured the imagination and attention of the world, shaping our understanding of human nature and forever changing the field of psychology. There was only one problem: The story of what happened during the experiment was shared with the world by only one […]
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Millennia ago, a magical race called the Aesir found a new home on a distant world. Attracted to the cold during an ice age, they hibernated for hundreds of years at a time. With each awakening, however, they saw their world changed by ever-evolving mortals, encroaching on their territory and way of life. Two civilizations […]
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It may still be November, but new K-Pop Christmas news is from BoyNextDoor and a special “duet” coming from V and Bing Crosby.
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GeekMom Elizabeth reviews ‘Sims 4: Life and Death,’ the newest expansion in the franchise.
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Here I am again, a new month and a new pile of books. After a productive October, I hope to keep up the momentum this month. Here then is my November 2024 Book Preview! The Book Club Pick Early book club in November (because we didn’t meet in October) and the pick is The Lost […]
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