Except maybe dungeon crawlers, few genres seem to attract game designers like trains. Now, Paul Dennen, designer of GeekDad Game of the Year Dune Imperium and GeekDad Game of the Year finalist Clank is bringing his spin to train building games with Lightning Train. What Is Lightning Train? Lightning Train is a game for 1-4 […]
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Visit the black market and use the treasure you gain to bribe the dragon and save your village in ‘Please Don’t Burn My Village’
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Arrange tiles to maximize affect in ‘Mezen’
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Listen to TV audio without disturbing others with the MIXX StreamQ TV Bundle
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The TRIBIT StormBox Blast 2 is the only Bluetooth speaker you’ll need.
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Trick-taking games are having a moment, and ‘Garden Variety’ provides some interesting twists on the genre that definitely makes it worth looking at.
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Portable Bluetooth speakers have become commonplace on the market today. The TRIBIT StormBox Lava provides deeper, richer sound than many of its similarly-sized competitors.
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Keep all of your devices charged on the move with the Aaoyun portable power station.
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While simple label machines have been around for a long time, easy-to-use thermal label printers have relatively recently entered the consumer market. Whether you need price tags for your garage sale, name tags for an event, or just want to label stuff around the house, the label printer and label maker from Munbyn may be […]
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Build the most beautiful and productive townscape in the seaside resort of ‘Bosa,’ an engine-building card-driven game from Funko and Prospero Hall that is GeekDad Approved.
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Four years ago, Jeopardy host Ken Jennings and Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield teamed up to create Half Truth, a trivia game with a twist. I reviewed the game back then and gave it our GeekDad Approved seal of approval, so when the publisher reached out asking if I would take a look at the second incarnation […]
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‘Madame Web’ is the origin story for four extremely lesser-known characters in the Spider-Man canon: the titular character and three Spider-Women. The backstories of these characters are, to say the least, complicated, but that doesn’t really work for a two-hour movie.
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There can really be no doubt that we’re living in the Golden Age of TV. There’s so much good TV these days that it’s literally impossible to keep up. But I try… and here are the ten best series I watched in 2023.
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Except for the Hallmark Channel, studios seem to have shied away from the format that used to produce some of its biggest and most enduring hits. But with ‘Anyone But You,’ it looks like they may be thinking about returning to form.
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2022 was truly a banner year for horror, so it was always going to be tough for 2023 to beat it, and honestly, it didn’t. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some pretty good movies this year to keep you on the edge of your seat.
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2023 turned out to be a pretty good year for those of us who enjoy laughing at the movies. Here’s my list of the top 10 best comedy movies of the past year.
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2023 turned out to be a pretty good year for those of us who enjoy science fiction and fantasy movies!
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With this weekend’s release of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,’ 2023 is officially a wrap in the superhero movie category. Here, I present my ranking of all nine movies in the genre from the past year.
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In the end, ‘Lost Kingdom’ turns out to be the blandest possible superhero movie.
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I heard once that the hardest single thing to do in sports is hitting a major-league fastball. I have no real idea if that’s true (I saw it on the internet, so it must be true), but I can say that now that I have had the opportunity to see a fastball (virtually) thrown by […]
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While plenty of kids dream of someday becoming a world-famous (and exceptionally wealthy) soccer player, how many more dream of spending their days sitting at a desk that overlooks the pitch, hiring and firing players and staff, and being even more fantastically wealthy as the team’s owner?
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Originally released in 1994, and based on Sid Sackson’s classic ‘Aquire’, ‘Big Boss’ finally gets a release outside of Germany thanks to Funko.
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Thanks to The Op’s great new game ‘The Perfect Wave’, I can enjoy a slice of the surfing lifestyle.
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The Last Kingdom is a Netflix series and soon-to-be-movie based on Bernard Cornwell’s long series of books following the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a fictional 9th century warrior who variously fights on both sides of the real wars between King Alfred (and his descendants) and the Danes, a war that would eventually lead to […]
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The gaming world received the very sad news yesterday that Klaus Teuber, inventor of CATAN, has passed away. He was 70 years old.
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The road to ‘Tír na nÓg,’ the Celtic Otherworld, is open, and your storytellers have journeyed there and returned with tales of fantastic treasure, weird creatures, and more. Whose storytellers will create the best, most lasting saga?
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MoviePass, the movie subscription plan that expanded and then exploded rather spectacularly a few years ago, is back.
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In 2022, I continued my quest to see at least one movie a day, every day. As 2022 ended, that streak stood at 770 days.
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Are you planning some family get-togethers and still need a couple of fun party games to play? If so, Sounds Fishy and Chicken vs Hot Dog from Big Potato Games are worth grabbing on those last-minute shopping trips. What Are Sounds Fishy and Chicken vs Hot Dog? Sounds Fishy is a party game for 4-10 players, ages […]
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A few weeks ago, we announced our finalists for the 2021 GeekDad Game of the Year. Today, we announce our winner!
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