The Nerf N-Strike Stampede ECS is the biggest and baddest Nerf blaster of the year, a rapid-firing colossus that is guaranteed to win any cubicle war. I’ve been, I mean, my kids have been playing around with my review Stampede …
Continue ReadingWizards of the Coast has introduced a new line this summer, called Dark Sun, which is a remake of a 1991 product. But what exactly is Dark Sun? It’s a complicated setting that takes a minute to describe. Dark Sun …
Continue ReadingI recently got into the water bottle kick. It just makes sense to use the filtered water from my fridge instead of buying a soda or some other beverage. And so, when Sigg wanted to send me some of their …
Continue ReadingThe Burton Fader Pack is a neat new daypack from a company more commonly associated with snowboarding equipment. Confession time: I’m not into snowboarding and don’t know much about Burton as a brand. I do, however, know what I like …
Continue ReadingThe original Tomb of Horrors AD&D module, published in 1978, had a widespread reputation for being the deadliest dungeon ever created, so full of nasty traps and puzzles that a PC who wasn’t utterly paranoid was basically hamburger, and even …
Continue ReadingPolish gaming dice manufacturer Q-Workshop has earned a reputation for cool and setting-specific dice like Call of Cthulhu sets, dice with dwarven or elven runes, giant 20-siders used as Magic: The Gathering life counters, and so on. As of …
Continue ReadingArvid Nelson has a graphic novel coming out, a compilation of his 6-issue comic, Zero Killer. While Nelson is primarily known for creating Rex Mundi, a long-running Image and Dark Horse comic that retold the Quest for the Holy Grail …
Continue ReadingThroughout its 17-year history, Magic: The Gathering has maintained a consistent “duel” mentality where each player pretty much is out to win everything for him or herself and everyone has an equal footing. However, with Archenemy, there is one bad …
Continue ReadingOut of embargo and ready to bust foam darts, this year’s hottest Nerf armament, the Stampede! Fully automatic, clip-fed, bipod, shield thing, 18-shot clips, available September 9th. Fear the reaper, cubicle farm denizens! (And, uh, kids too…) The first fully …
Continue ReadingForget the Clear Pepsi jokes, Hasbro’s Nerf Clear Series blasters (available August 1) present four of the line’s most popular products, and rather than using the classic black and yellow of previous versions, all four use transparent plastic, revealing the …
Continue ReadingOnce again we present our exclusive spoilers for the latest Magic: The Gathering set. This time, for the 2011 Core Set that gathers together the best and most classic monsters and spells from the game’s various lines. The Magic: The …
Continue ReadingHave you ever cracked open that broken gadget or toy and looked at the cool components inside, and wondered what they did and how? Have you ever thought about perhaps figuring out which component has burned out and replacing it …
Continue ReadingThis Sunday I’ll be attending Make: Day, a miniature version of O’Reilly’s Maker Faires. This is the second event in what hopefully will be a long series. Last year’s Make: Day was held in part to promote the wonderful maker …
Continue ReadingSo Hasbro owns Supersoaker and Nerf, probably the two most well-known toy lines that allow kids to blast each other safely outside. Well, guess what? The two brands have converged into an awesome series of products: Super Soaker squirt guns …
Continue ReadingMore goodies await you with this, the second and last Father’s Day Gift Guide. Also see our first guide and the aggregated gift guides of previous years. Thanks to Dave Banks, Ken Denmead, Jonathan Liu and Jenny Williams for their …
Continue ReadingPresenting the 2010 version of our Father’s Day Gift Guide! Obviously, the day carries a special meaning for the dads on this blog. This is our day! But we also want to share the love with the other dads out …
Continue ReadingThe visualization of the Astral Plane featured in previous editions of D&D was fairly dull — some sort of infinitely large and infinitely tedious plane where not much was going on. 4th Edition D&D’s representation, as part of their simplified …
Continue ReadingArthur Gugick’s excellent Lego Angkor Wat model gets extra points for micro building — creating a model at the smallest scale imaginable, while still being recognizable. [Via The Brothers Brick]
Continue ReadingJournalist Jonathan Bender spent a year immersed in the adult fan of LEGO community for his new book, LEGO: A Love Story, out this month. The past two years he has spent purchasing LEGO bricks; however, they can no longer …
Continue ReadingIn honor of Star Wars Day, (“May the 4th be with you!”) check out this funny recap of the original trilogy, condensed into a hair over two minutes. Inexplicably, we couldn’t embed the movie, so here’s a link: http://www.youtube.com/dzine123.
Continue ReadingWhat better way to make a splash than to recreate a movie trailer in Lego? Plus, it promotes Lego’s new Prince of Persia line which promises to have some great models.
Continue ReadingThe Player’s Handbook 3. The very name implies a “C” list of offerings that somehow didn’t rate getting in the first two. At first glance, a casual page-flipper might find confirmation in some of the entries. New classes Ardent and …
Continue ReadingOnce again, Wizards of the Coast has seen fit to bestow upon us an exclusive Magic: The Gathering spoiler card! This time it’s for their latest expansion set, Rise of the Eldrazi. For thousands of years, Zendikar has had a …
Continue ReadingStymied for suitably creative pranks to pull this April Fools’ Day? Check out my collection of the best DIY tricks pulled from the archives of Make: Online and MAKE Magazine.
Continue ReadingAll things must come to an end, and unfortunately, Wizard of the Coast’s Star Wars Miniatures game concludes with its final installment, Masters of the Force, which releases April 4th. It’s a fitting finale — MotF packs forty heroes and …
Continue ReadingYou can thank me for the cleanest possible melon joke. All we need now is a Jabba’s Sail Barge carved out of a turnip! Who’s up for a challenge? Via Flickr user Silverisdead
Continue ReadingHappy Pi Day from the GeekDads! 3/14 is Pi Day. Pie and/or photo by Jade. (cc)
Continue ReadingWizards of the Coast is running a contest: tell them an entertaining but true story about Magic and the best two stories win a trip to the MtG Pro Tour in San Juan, Puerto Rico. What is the most fun …
Continue ReadingThe Underdark, where the legendarily tough dwarves dare not trespass. The Underdark, where surface races survive only as slaves. The Underdark, the scariest place this side of the Elemental Chaos. If you’ve played D&D for any amount of time you’ll …
Continue ReadingThe other day my four-year-old son and I put together one of the Ben 10 Alien Force models from Lego, a Big Chill the company sent me to review. The first thing I noticed was how few pieces came in …
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