Reading Time: 1 minute Overwatch embraces the Chinese New Year with the Year of the Dog event in-game, but they don’t stop there. Because your screens can never have too much cute, check out Monday’s Puppy Rumble event on the official Overwatch Twitch channel. The event starts at 3:00 PM PT on Monday, February 19th. In Overwatch, […]
Continue ReadingReading Time: 2 minutes As always, I’ve got some Kickstarter reviews in the pipeline, but there are always a lot of fascinating tabletop projects out there that we won’t get to review in depth, often because we just weren’t able to get a prototype in time. Here are a few current projects that I wanted […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Make. Play. Discover. Last weekend, almost one year to the day after my initial hands-on experience with the Nintendo Switch, I was back in NYC with another cadre of bloggers, YouTubers, and various media types. While we came from different places representing many different styles and outlets, we all shared one […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Somewhere in the darkness, just beyond the glow of a dying campfire, something evil lurks. A hunter is awakened from her slumber by a guttural growl and all her senses are immediately on alert. With limited ammo for her crossbow, can she survive the night or will the Monster prevail, in […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending January 19, 2018. Did you see CMON’s Kickstarter trailer for Hate? (Not linking because it’s very NSFW.) Were you as dumbstruck as we were? This week’s image is from Meeple Circus. Three rings of fun! Gen […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The board game (and board game-related!) news that caught our attention for the week ending January 12, 2018. It’s the new year and with it comes some resolutions, possibly. I pledged to clean up and organize my collection, a goal I’m about halfway done with already. Have you made any resolutions […]
Continue ReadingPlaying the ‘YIIK: A Postmodern RPG’ demo at PAX East in March was a little weird for me. After all, I graduated from college in 2000, just a year after the game’s protagonist comes home from college to find himself facing both adulthood and a terrible mystery.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever been a Kingdom of Loathing fan, there’s a new stick figure sheriff in town: West of Loathing.
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From chickens to education to splitting on bricks, Rebecca Angel learned (?) a lot about gaming at various panels at PAX East this year.
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What if, in an effort to teach kids about how brackets work, to gear them up for future NCAA brackets, or just to have something fun to do if you’re not so into watching basketball, there were a bracket of a different sort. Presenting, the GeekDad Family Game Madness Bracket.
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Rebecca Angel and her teen son attended Arisia, a geeky convention in Boston. Here is her son’s experience in his own words: art, gaming, and an uncomfortable taxi ride.
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I have my Pokemon cards, my DS, my lab coat, and my comfy shoes–I’m ready for PAX Aus 2016 this weekend in Melbourne! Who’s with me?
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Twine is an interactive fiction game creator, and this book is going to help you write your stories.
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Today GeekMom Mel welcomes writer and game designer (among other things!) Monica Valentinelli to GeekMom. Monica is celebrating the release of her new book,’ The Gorramn Shiniest Dictionary and Language Guide in the ‘Verse!’
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While the internet offers opportunities to connect remotely with empathetic fans of games of all sorts, a growing group of shrewd entrepreneurs has begun to launch wildly popular brick-and-mortar establishments where nerds of all stripes can gather to hang out in person with their tribes and let their creative impulses soar.
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Virtual Reality is up for discussion again, with plenty of developments scheduled for 2016. Is this the year we see VR units in every home? EG Mum goes beyond the bright and shiny to look at exactly how suitable VR will be for your geeky family.
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What happens when Mom agrees to learn Minecraft from her 10 year old son? Magic, that’s what happens. And lots of laughter.
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Party games! Games that can be played by seven or more people are perfect for your New Year’s. Here’s a list, what’s yours?
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To help you celebrate Halloween I’ve picked out six games in six different styles including board games, video games, and games to play with kids.
Continue ReadingPatricia’s sons asked about what it was like to play video games like Pong and Pac-Man in the 1980s. She and her husband decided to show them first-hand.
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