super mario maker

10 Things Parents Should Know About ‘Super Mario Maker’

Launching next week, Nintendo’s ‘Super Mario Maker’ is poised to make quite the impression on gamers young and old. With its blend of one of gaming’s most iconic properties and the sort of creative freedom usually only reserved for sandbox titles, it’s both a retro throwback and a new school virtual toolkit. But is it right for you and your family? Let’s see.

X-Men, Spider-Man Less-Than Super on Nintendo DS

Though its predecessor Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was favorably accepted by both gamers and comic fans, the recent sequel Spider-Man: Edge of Time has received somewhat mixed reviews. This title is actually available on the DS as well as the 3DS, …

Make Your Own Superhero Toys Out of Paper

Superheroes and the internet are joining forces for some pretty impressive things these days. No, I’m not talking about digital comics. This GeekDad’s too old-fashioned to really enjoy those. I’ll take a book I can hold in my hands over …

Mario Stars in Poetic Origami

Today, we can finally draw back the curtain on our first Origami Haiku review. These bite sized reviews take just five seconds to read but are written, folded and photographed by hand. They combine the Japanese art of origami with haiku poetry. At Game People we are always on the look out for creative ways […]

GeekMom: Making All Things New With Cricut Maker

My trusty old Cricut has been well loved. It has made party decorations, lettering for Scouting events, it has scrapbooked hundreds of pictures of at least one of my children. We have made robots and dinosaurs, we have made Batman and Elmo. Cricut has come a long way in the last ten years, and so […]