Gamebook Adventures, a fun mix of story, adventure path selection, and RPGs, brings its unique apps to kids with the first of a trilogy of books specifically crafted for kids aged 8 to 12.
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You don’t have to be a fan of the show to apprecaite this, but if you are, you’ll be doubled over in laughter.
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Fans of non-sparkly vampire fiction may be interested to know that today’s Amazon Deal of the Day is 55% off Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Deluxe Edition). It’s still $269.99, mind you, but that blows away the retail price.
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For over four years, I’ve eagerly anticipated each adventure that Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes have undertaken on behalf of Queen and Country. The bond between the two investigators has grown, the dangers have increased, and secret after secret have either been revealed or further buried as a deeper storyline has slowly threaded itself through the subsequent novels, The Osiris Ritual and The Immorality Engine. Now, a fourth novel, The Executioner’s Heart, is beginning to answer questions (and, of course, create new ones) while at the same time ratcheting up the tension between the main characters and pretty much all of the minor ones.
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This evening (10/15) PBS will air Superheroes: A Never Ending Battle, a documentary by Michael Kantor featuring interviews with Stan Lee, Adam West, Lynda Carter, Geoff Johns, Jeph Loeb, Michael Chabon, and too many others to list here.
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With the game out today in the US and soon to arrive on other shores, here’s my family first-look review after working through much of the experience with my kids.
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Graphic novels are a great way to learn about war, since they show the action, the planning, and can include all the important players.
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The game is afoot!
Today is the opening of the International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes, a fantastic exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland, Oregon. If you’re a fan of the good detective in any of his incarnations, this is an exhibit worth seeing.
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I’m always on the lookout for a new science fiction book that will throws me a curve. Don’t get me wrong… I do love my steampunk and Sherlock Holmes and space opera, but sometimes you just want a good surprise. Does that describe you? If so, I’ve just finished The Daedalus Incident that, on a five star scale, gets six. (I may bump that up to a seven given that I’ve just learned there’s a sequel in the works.)
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Check out this amazing remix of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories.
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Like many of my fellow TV geeks, I enjoy the TV products that are developed across the pond, in England. Ever since we started watching Downton Abbey, like the enlightened viewers that we are, the offerings from Masterpiece Theater on PBS have particularly caught our eye. We have been watching Foyle’s War for the past couple of years as it runs on PBS Masterpiece Mystery and love it. The previous seasons have been available on Netflix, so we have now seen them all.
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Well, the Wordstock Book Festival is now over, and I had a fun (and exhausting) time. I was often bouncing back and forth between two or three panels because there were simply so many authors and cartoonists and books that I was curious about. Here’s a whirlwind recap of some of my favorite things from the weekend.
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With only four days left until the Pokémon franchise makes its proper debut on Nintendo’s current-generation portable, the internet is a veritable Combee hive of excitement. (See what I did there?)
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Inspired by Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week project, the geeky sister duo The Doubleclicks have started Weekly Song Wednesdays.
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Last week marked the release of a new, fancy, illustrated version of Tolkien’s beloved classic The Hobbit. And we’re giving away three free copies, thanks to the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Mobile, casual game-playing, freemium-loving zombies already know that EA’s The Simpsons: Tapped Out is one of the most addictive games out there. I may not be heavily into the genre, but I do love The Simpsons and this game has been on my iPad since it first came out. Besides getting rid of most of the bugs and technical issues that plagued the game last year (— cough— busy servers, lengthy load times and occasional terrifying moments where your Springfield was lost and it appeared you had to start from scratch — cough —), EA has also removed the platform divide and offers The Simpsons: Tapped Out for Android users now too. Just like last year, a new release brings Halloween spirit to the virtual Springfield, including ghosts, gremlins, GOO, trick or treating and content tied in to the TV show’s “Treehouse of Horror XXIV” episode.
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Dear Books, I’m so sorry I’ve been too busy for you. Really.
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The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIV: Don’t blink or you’ll miss something.
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I first read Steampunk Holmes in its printed version, and I must admit that I loved the cover and interior artwork. But Noble Beast has me now rethinking my position on ebooks with its new release of the Enhanced Book containing an interactive version of the story (as well as a narrated version, if you prefer that method of delivery).
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The days when the only kids’ show you could depend upon for Halloween fun was another rerun of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown are long gone. Over the past several decades, Halloween has grown into an institution of its own, and these days people demand more TV programming — for adults and for kids alike — around the holiday. This year, Disney Channel is going all-out, putting on an entire month of spooky kids’ shows, and three new episodes of GeekDad favorite Phineas and Ferb are among the highlights.
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When The Middleman was abruptly canceled by ABC Family after 12 episodes in 2008, fans were left without closure. Now, Middleman creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach has launched a fundraiser campaign on Indiegogo with three goals in mind: to reissue all of the Middleman comics in new large-format editions and set them up on a print-on-demand service to keep them available; to produce a new graphic novel in which the TV and comic book continuities merge; and to stage a cast reunion and reading of the script of the new comic (titled The Pan-Universal Parental Reconciliation) for a live audience in May 2014.
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With the 2DS now not many moons away I had some hands on time with the device.
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With Swap Force almost upon us I had a chance to play through 30 minutes of the game at my leisure and in relative quiet at the Eurogamer Expo in London.
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Mel Brooks scarred me for life. No, I’m not taking about some psychic or emotional damage caused by being exposed to his works at too young an age. I mean he has in fact literally caused physical scars on my body. Many years ago, I found myself hospitalized with a ruptured spleen; I ended up with about a six inch incision right up the middle of my abdomen. When the anesthesia wore off, I found myself watching whatever happened to be on TV, and what was on was The Producers. I pulled a pillow against my tortured stomach and watched it. I laughed so hard that I tore three stitches. I have no regrets.
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Like any good nerd, what is a single night of revelry for regular folks — Halloween — is a month-long event for me. In addition to a slow roll-out of decorations and the laborious task of cobbling together the perfect costumes for me and my brood, the seasonal merrymaking also includes weekly viewing of especially spooky programming. Of course, now that my kids are old enough to want to participate I’ve had to dial back the gore.
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It’s a good day for the t-shirt deficient geek, as no fewer than three separate tee-a-day sites have most assuredly brought their A-game to this first week of October.
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When and where will you be able to see the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary adventure? Find out here.
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The official trailer for the December 13 release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is now out there in the Internet-verse. Watch it, analyze it, love it, hate it. Let’s hear talk of spoilers, good and bad adaptation decisions on the part of Peter Jackson & Co. And whatever else you want to discuss.
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If you are needing to get your apocalypse on before the new season of The Walking Dead starts, then look no further. This is the End, the raunchy end of the world comedy is being released today (10/01/2013) on Blu-ray and DVD.
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I don’t normally find myself thinking about these things, but while closing out the beach at Port Stanley last weekend (here in Ontario the beach season is short but sweet — even the potted palm trees have been carted off to a greenhouse already), we drove past this hearse done up as the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1 wheels. It’s a bit newer than the ’59 Caddie used in the Ghostbusters movies and not exactly true to the original in terms of badging and accessories, but my kids immediately knew what it’s supposed to be — props to the Shriners (the fez on the ghost decal gives that one away).
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