(Picture by Logan Giannini) We’ve all been there before: you’re happily sipping tea with your giant, prehistoric chums. It’s all going swimmingly until, sometime between your fifth and fiftieth cucumber sandwich, you realize that your peanut-sized brain has simply lost every bit of information regarding your friends’ names. It’s a disaster! As a nice, polite […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes David Hoppe, President of Gen Con With Gen Con just around the corner (it all begins two weeks from today!), we thought it would be fun to sit down with Gen Con president David Hoppe and pick his brain a little. Here are 10 Questions with David Hoppe: GeekDad: For the […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes The best four days in gaming are only sixteen days away. We’ve been scheduling meetings, perusing releases, and just generally getting can’t-sit-still excited about Gen Con. (Who else is already packed and ready to go?) Read on to see what the GeekDads are most Super-MEGA enthusiastic to see in Indianapolis. Dave […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Photograph by Sara Blackburn. In Tides of Time, two players go head-to-head to claim the most valuable properties and build the greatest kingdom. But choose deliberately and tactically, for your opponent can see your every move and might be one step ahead. What Is Tides of Time? Tides of Time is […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport has installed a gaming lounge where you can pay to play popular titles while you wait for your flight. From the piece at Variety: The lounges function similar to the popular PC/game rooms in South Korea, except they are not quite as wallet-friendly. For 42 cents per […]
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Reading Time: 15 minutes The Kingdom of Pomme is hosting its annual tournament: each of the animal kingdoms sends two seekers to participate, hoping to win trophies and earn their right to be the rulers of Pomme. It’s time to play My Little Scythe. What Is My Little Scythe? My Little Scythe is a sort of […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Copyright, Finders Seekers Tabletop gaming has been a fast-growing past-time for geeks for many years. The size of my tabletop game collection can attest to that. It is only dwarfed by my video game collection. When we think of tabletop games we generally think of board, dice, or card games, right? […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes As a Japanese warrior-monk, you and your opponents are training to see who will replace your dying master. Only a cunning and balanced pupil will have what it takes in this abstract strategy game from Arcane Wonders. What Is Senshi? Senshi is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players, aged 14 […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month I wrote about the engaging Kickstarter project, Heroes and Treasure. Heroes and Treasure is the brainchild of Jason Davis, a roleplaying game aimed at children aged four and up. It’s a labor of love, a project worthy of GeekDad support, and it’s tantalizingly close to fully funding. This is a sponsored […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes WotC unveils its latest products during ‘Stream of Many Eyes’ There can be no mistaking the popularity of Dungeons & Dragons right now. At pretty much any time of any day you can turn on Twitch and watch a group of people, some professional and some less so, play D&D. This […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes image by Simon Yule Dungeon Masters and RPG enthusiasts the world over all experience the same three universal problems. Problem number one: How do you find enough players willing to depart the safety of their comfortable, humdrum lives to delve into the deep shadowy recesses of your dark and twisted imagination […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes This post is sponsored by the Heroes & Treasure Kickstarter campaign. Stories and make-believe are essential to childhood. Few things give me greater pleasure than watching my kids inventing new stories, taking on different personas, and interacting with one another in a positive way to achieve a common goal. All of […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutes In CONEX, the field of play grows like a colorful hydra as players lay cards from their hands onto an ever-expanding tableau. What Is CONEX? CONEX is an abstract, family friendly card-laying game in which players try to place a card from their hand onto the tableau, overlapping an existing card […]
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Photograph by Sara Blackburn If you’re a board gaming parent like me, probably at least .001% of the reason you had kids was to make it easier to play your favorite games at player counts higher than two. Coordinating schedules with other adults is tough. Your kids are a captive gaming […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Shaperise is a colorful, fun memory game for the whole family. Quick to learn, hard to master, it is perhaps most remarkable for the fact it was designed by an eleven-year-old boy. British games company The Green Board Game Company runs an annual “Young Board Games Inventor” competition. Shaperise was their 2016 winner. The prize […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post was sponsored by Xbox Game Pass. Gaming is by no means a cheap hobby. After all, most new titles hit the shelves at a whopping $60, and that doesn’t even cover future downloadable content, microtransactions, and so on. This predicament proves especially problematic for those looking to try out […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutes Photo: Crooked Tower Games The wizards of Zoor shape-shift and clash, each hoping to be the successor to Zafirah, the last of the Zoordar. Use your spellstones and magic items wisely to outsmart your rivals in Wizardz Bluff! What Is Wizardz Bluff? Wizardz Bluff is a bidding/bluffing game by Ron and Jayson […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Combine on of the best animated films of all time with the whimsey and fun of LEGO and we have a potentially great videogame! Click through to read all of “‘LEGO The Incredibles’ Videogame Trailer” at GeekDad.If you value content from GeekDad, please support us via Patreon or use this […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes On this day one year ago—March 3, 2017—families around the globe welcomed a new addition into their dens, living rooms, and various other domestic entertainment spaces: the Nintendo Switch. It was, like Nintendo’s other hardware releases of recent memory, a peculiar little creature—a diminutive tablet with removable controller arrays. It wasn’t […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Following the brouhaha over loot boxes in video games, the Entertainment Software Rating Board has announced that they will begin assigning an “In-Game Purchases” label to video games in the near future. The label will be applied to games that feature content–including but not limited to bonus levels, skins, item packs, […]
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