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Smash Up Expansion: Awesome Level 9000
You may have seen Wil Wheaton & Co. playing Smash Up on TableTop last month. The first stand-alone expansion, Awesome Level 9000, adds four more fun factions to the mix.
Continue ReadingPirate Dice: Voyage on the Rollng Seas
Pirates in pursuit of the fabled treasure sail through treacherous waters. The most treacherous part, of course, may be all the other pirates. Pirate Dice: Voyage on the Rolling Seas is a dice-based “programming” game that funded successfully on Kickstarter …
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Scallywags: Pirates and Plund-arrr!
If you like talking like pirates, Scallywags is a quick-playing family game of “pirates and plund-arrr” from Gamewright.
Continue ReadingSurprises Abound Inside a Kiwi Crate
I’ve found another great project-supplying company. It’s called Kiwi Crate, and it sends out a pre-packaged little box that contains at least three special craft projects each month. You can pay-as-you-go for a monthly box or you can save some …
Continue ReadingDream Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of: Senior Animation Supervisor
Jay Grace has a very cool job. As a Senior Animation Supervisor at Aardman Animations, he works on some of the best stop-motion animation films being produced today. In a world that has quickly become dominated by computer animated hits …
Continue ReadingLike Wizard101? Try Pirate101
The folks at KingsIsle have not been idle, making the most out of their success with their AAA MMO for kids, Wizard 101. They just put a brand-new world called Avalon into beta for that hit game, and today they’ve …
Continue ReadingGeek Night Out: Marian Call, The Doubleclicks, PDXYAR
My wife and I got to have a date night on Sunday, thanks to Marian Call, The Doubleclicks, and PDXYAR. I’d read about Marian Call and her 49>50 tour as several GeekDad contributors got to see her in person, but …
Continue Reading10 Arrrguably Awesome Things About Aardman’s The Pirates!
Posted by Simon Kisner View original post » On Sunday morning my family and I were lucky enough to get hold of some charity preview tickets for Aardman’s latest stop-motion extravaganza “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!”, courtesy of …
Continue ReadingPirate Carols: Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-ARR!
What do pirates and Christmas have in common? No idea, but I decided they needed to come together in love, harmony, and carousing. So here’s my gift to you: six pirate versions of melodies you already know. Click on the …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Exclusive: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Giveaways
Disney is releasing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides on Blu-ray 3D & Blu-ray Hi-Def Combo Pack tomorrow (Tuesday 10/18). This fourth installment of the Pirates series follows Jack Sparrow and Barbossa as they embark on a quest to …
Continue ReadingJake & The Never Land Pirates Comes to DVD
Generally speaking I am a fair judge of the kinds of entertainment that my kids will dig. This is because, for good or ill, we tend to experience things like music, movies and video games together. Even when I’d rather …
Continue ReadingTalking With Pirates: a Chat with Corey Burton and Jeff Bennett
Disney’s Captain Hook and Mister Smee embarked on a virtual world tour to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day; voice actors Corey Burton and Jeff Bennett sat in the Radio Disney studio in Burbank, speaking to radio DJs and …
Continue ReadingCaptain Nemo — Hero… and Pirate
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Captain Nemo of the Nautilus, genius inventor of the submarine that is the central locale for Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. If you’ve never read the story, there’s …
Continue ReadingApp Mini-Review: Crimson: Steam Pirates
I’m calling this a mini-review of Crimson: Steam Pirates because I’ve only really been able to complete the first four of eight missions — it was just released on September 1, but I wanted to include a review during my …
Continue ReadingNerdapalooza 2011: What You Missed – Part One (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
The fifth annual Nerdapalooza music festival just wrapped up a couple days ago down in Orlando, FL. Held at the Orlando Marriott hotel, the festival broke all previous years attendance records and was an ear-blasting good time. I’m pretty sure …
Continue ReadingThe Pirates of Colorado
Talk about a good summer GeekDad style project: The Greeley (Colorado) Tribune recently reported that a couple of local men built a 20 foot long pirate ship, complete with a ship’s wheel, Jolly Roger, a plank (for walking,) and cannon. …
Continue ReadingChoose Your Geekiness, Deep or Wide
After yesterday’s post about breadth of interests vs. depth of interests, I noticed that two library books I’d checked out for my four-year-old last week do a really good job of illustrating these two contrasting viewpoints. When I Grow Up …
Continue ReadingPirate Blast for the Wii: Easy to Pick Up But Not Much Staying Power
What do you get when you mix robotic pirates, monkeys, water cannons, and water balloons? The premise for Pirate Blast from Zoo Entertainment. Several weeks ago I got Pirate Blast for the Wii as a review copy. The game is …
Continue ReadingSaltwater Taffy and a GeekDad Interview with Author Eric DelaBarre
I was recently given a copy of the new young-adult novel, Saltwater Taffy, by a friend of mine who knew my fascination with Caribbean pirates during the time of Jean Lafitte and Blackbeard. I was not disappointed. Shortly after finishing …
Continue ReadingZombie Ninja Pirates! (And Don’t Forget the Mad Scientists)
Overview: Zombie Ninja Pirates is a bizarre little card game in which you try to become zombies, ninjas, pirates and mad scientists while collecting objects that will award you points. It’s published by Gozer Games, a small game company that …
Continue ReadingPuppets and Kings and Undead Things
The Littlest Pirate King by David B. and Pierre Mac Orlan, Fantagraphics Books I first heard of the French cartoonist David B. years ago when his comic-book memoir, Epileptic, was published in English. It’s the story of his family’s endless …
Continue ReadingMeet Bigby in the League Against Pirates and Dragons
Look out bad guys, there’s a new crime-fighting kid in town! This month, Worldwide Biggies Inc., the digital entertainment studio helmed by family entertainment hit-maker Albie Hecht, is introducing its latest animated character sensation Bigby, a 9-year-old genius who believes …
Continue ReadingPirate Versus Pirate: The Swashbuckling Game of Swords and Rewards
My son and I could not wait for the release of Pirate Versus Pirate – The Swashbucklin’ Game of Swords and Rewaaarrrds. We both really enjoyed Out Of The Box’s Ninja Versus Ninja, so this seemed like a solid choice …
Continue ReadingJolly Good: A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade
Ahoy, me hearties! Set your goggles double quick on this jolly good book: A Pirate’s Guide to First Grade, written by the old salt James Preller and illustrations by Greg Ruth that’ll shiver yer timbers. OK, yes, International Talk Like …
Continue Reading5 Fun Piratical Projects for Landlubbers (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Talking like a pirate is a lot of fun in and of itself, but — let’s be honest — it gets a little annoying if you really do it all day long. So, what other things can you do to …
Continue ReadingTalk Like a Pirate with The Unsinkable Walker Bean
Are you celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day today? Here’s some fun pirate-based reading for you and your kids, as well as fun activity kit to get everyone in the mood. First, download the Walker Bean Pirate Kit and print …
Continue ReadingLego Imperial Flagship Crushes All Enemies
Oh, hecks yes! I thought last year’s Brickbeard’s Bounty was awesome but this beast ups the ante — bigger and even more detailed — though less piratical. All hands on deck! This amazingly detailed and realistic historical ship has three …
Continue ReadingNinja Versus OMG! Pirates! on the iPhone
“Ha! Foolish Ninja! Behold the power of rum-powered technology!” So says one of the pirate bosses in Mika Mobile’s newest game for the iPhone (and iPod touch). OMG! Pirates! is a heaping serving of awesome. Unless, of course, you side …
Continue Reading5 Fun Piratical Projects for Landlubbers
Talking like a pirate is a lot of fun in and of itself, but — let’s be honest — it gets a little annoying if you really do it all day long. So, what other things can you do to …
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