Six months ago, my wife and I were blessed with a baby daughter. Despite this new addition to my life, I found my time still being consumed by my nerdy passions. I imagine most new nerd parents are the same: you love your child, but you really need to finish the newest issue of Saga or grinding through that Destiny dungeon. Personally, I kept finding my geek side wanting to take time away from my dad side.
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IDW Games and Toei Animation have teamed up to bring you a great dice game based on the ‘Dragon Ball’ franchise.
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I’m going to start off by getting the obvious out of the way: no, ‘Father.IO’ has nothing to do with fatherhood. It is instead your typical FPS game with good guys (humans) and bad guys (evolved), but with an AR twist.
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On Tuesday, October 17th, two giant robots squared off for the first Giant Robot Duel in history, and it was… slow, but cool.
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The Kickstarter for this game about the war between Alternating and Direct Current was successful earlier this year – but how is the game?
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Looking for a new album to play for your kids to help them get some sleep? Fortunately, Scarlet Moon Productions just released ‘Prescriptions for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies Vol. II’ today, and it might be just what you’re looking for.
Continue ReadingGreg Weisman is a name near and dear to my heart. I religiously watched ‘Gargoyles’ in my younger years, truly enjoying the world painted before me. In recent years I quickly became addicted to ‘Young Justice.’ It had a take on the DC Universe that I wish was the main voice in the comics.
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One of the many skills I’ve developed in my time as a creative geek is pixel painting, the art of painting video game sprites with acrylic paint on canvas. I recently started picking it up as a hobby again, and I thought I’d share some pointers on how to get started–in case anyone would like to paint their favorite old school video game character!
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It’s about time that I introduced frustrated comic readers to my favorite comic, ‘Atomic Robo.’ Created by writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener, it was published by Red 5 comics in late 2007, and nominated for an Eisner award the following year.
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Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion are crowdfunding a movie together. Need more? It’s sort of about ‘Firefly’ (though not really).
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Replay the historic battle of AC vs. DC in a Kickstarter board game: ‘Tesla vs. Edison.’
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Video game cover duo Careless Juja has announced that it’s releasing its third full-length album, ‘Legend of the Boar Knight,’ on March 7th. It’s a double album that tells a fun story rife with parodies of video game tropes accented with appropriate video game covers.
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‘Exactly Where I Am’ is a strong album that resonates with Marc’s low-fidelity pop sensibility. Marc doesn’t try to obfuscate the theme of the album, throwing it in the Bandcamp’s description: “The intersection between yesterday’s small-town secrets and today’s information overload.” That comes across heavily in most of the tracks without leaving the listener feeling spoon-fed.
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Six months ago, my wife and I were blessed with a baby daughter. Despite this new addition to my life, I found my time still being consumed by my nerdy passions. I imagine most new nerd parents are the same: you love your child, but you really need to finish the newest issue of Saga or grinding through that Destiny dungeon. Personally, I kept finding my geek side wanting to take time away from my dad side.
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