‘Semblance’: A Game By Nyamakop
‘Semblance’ is described as a puzzle platformer featuring a world made out of playdough. Read what GeekMom Anika learned interviewing its makers!
Continue Reading‘Semblance’ is described as a puzzle platformer featuring a world made out of playdough. Read what GeekMom Anika learned interviewing its makers!
Continue ReadingGeekMom Karen brings the round up of FB Live videos from PAX East 2017 showing all the best that she felt PAX had to offer.
Continue ReadingActress Michelle Lin from the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ movie sits down with GeekMom Karen to talk about her role and her martial arts training.
Continue ReadingWhat should a parent know before investing in a gaming laptop for their children? Quite a bit more than required for a regular laptop.
Continue ReadingVideo game movie tie-ins have not always been the greatest, but Barcelona-based Big Star Games is hoping to change that with their upcoming release of ‘Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days.’
Continue ReadingFrom chickens to education to splitting on bricks, Rebecca Angel learned (?) a lot about gaming at various panels at PAX East this year.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Karen sits down at PAX East 2017 to talk with Sam Abbot from Compulsion Games about ‘We Happy Few,’ their new game currently in early access on STEAM and Xbox.
Continue ReadingThinkGeek has brought out some new items for PAX East this weekend.
Continue ReadingBig cons have the big names, but small cons have perks too. I’ve had good and bad experiences at both. You?
Continue ReadingMy youngest son was the only one of the four minion accompanying me to PAX East this weekend. I was there for the Geek Parenting panel on Sunday.
My son was there in search of a Dungeons & Dragons Red …
Evil Hat Productions has made a small but growing name for themselves in the gaming world by producing excellent RPGs tightly integrated with published stories, of both traditional and graphic novel sorts. One of their most popular lines is the …
Continue ReadingLust is an irrational emotion. It can force us to do silly things and create desires that take hold in the forefront of your mind and simply will not abate, no matter how hard you try. Such was the case …
Continue ReadingSee the video of the “Raising the Next Generation of Geeks” panel from PAX East, featuring writers from GeekDad and GeekMom.
Continue ReadingThere has been a lot of negative press about video games, and frankly, irresponsible, unfounded claims made about video games and children in the media. More than ever before, we need a balanced perspective about gaming from one of the …
Continue ReadingKids and parents are everywhere this weekend at PAX East, the humongous (70,000 person) gaming exposition in Boston! And over 300 of them had to be turned away from the GeekParenting panel featuring GeekDad Managing Editor Matt Blum, writers Doug …
Continue ReadingWhat Is It? Unless you’ve been living under a pile of rotting flesh, you’ve probably played (or at least heard of) the merriment of Munchkin, a role-playing card game from Steve Jackson Games. This tasteless diversion has spawned dozens of …
Continue ReadingOnce again, the writers and editors of GeekDad will be going on the road to PAX East in Boston to talk about all sorts of things related to geeky parenting. We’ll be speaking at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon in the …
Continue ReadingOnce again, the writers and editors of GeekDad will be going on the road to PAX East in Boston to talk about all sorts of things related to geeky parenting. We’ll be speaking at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon in the …
Continue ReadingEditor and self-proclaimed nerd Brian Ashcraft of the very fine video game blog Kotaku explains why he gave his son a Tezuka-inspired name: “To fulfill his destiny as a nerd. Let’s be honest. I am a nerd. Perhaps, you are …
Continue ReadingWhile I’m fairly certain that most GeekDads and GeekMoms are already well-stocked with argumental ammunition when it comes to taking on anti-gamer stereotypes, Wil Wheaton handed out some nice power-ups in his keynote Friday afternoon at PAX East in Boston. …
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be one of 60,000 geeks in a convention center clearly not designed to hold crowds of that size, I am now in a position to tell you this much: It …
Continue ReadingSession Friday 7:00 Wyvern Theatre (somewhere in the Hynes Convention Center) “How young is too young for The Hobbit? What should my kids’ first LEGO set be? How can I control my disgust if my child tells me he likes Jar …
Continue ReadingIf you enjoy gaming, or the webcomic Penny Arcade, or (if you’re like most of us at GeekDad) both, you’ve probably heard of their annual PAX festival. PAX, short for “Penny Arcade Expo,” has been held every summer since 2004 …
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