Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Tiny Epic Zombies’
They might be tiny, but these zombies are no joke. Scott Almes and Gamelyn Games are back with the latest title in their Tiny Epic series, ‘Tiny Epic Zombies’!
Continue ReadingThey might be tiny, but these zombies are no joke. Scott Almes and Gamelyn Games are back with the latest title in their Tiny Epic series, ‘Tiny Epic Zombies’!
Continue ReadingAnyone who says zombies aren’t social has never been to Zedtown. Check out our review of the biggest zombie Nerf war in Australia!
Continue ReadingWith the movie released in 2016, I was curious to see how good the book was.
Continue ReadingAt a brisk 111 minutes, ‘The Girl with All the Gifts’ isn’t exactly breezy, but its masterful pacing always managed to keep me engaged. So did its wonderfully cohesive cinematography and its stellar cast, particularly the performances of Sennia Nanua and Gemma Arterton.
Continue ReadingA new game, ‘Hit Z Road,’ makes being slaughtered by zombies a beautiful and wonderful experience.
Continue ReadingI was sent a toy and could not review it, and that’s awesome.
Continue ReadingYou may have seen the Pac-Man Suit making the rounds on the internet. But OppoSuits has a lot of other fantastic and flashy suits for GeekDads of all stripes.
Continue ReadingFans of Peter Clines’ ‘Superheroes vs. Zombies’ series of novels are undoubtedly walking around with grins on their faces right now. The fifth book in the series, ‘Ex-Isle,’ was released on February 2nd and it delivers exactly what fans of the series have come to expect: zombies galore, survivors pushed to the brink, superheroes striving to protect the remaining human population as best they can, and tension… pure tension… in every chapter.
Continue ReadingA review of the upcoming Kickstarter for ‘Robot Empire,’ a battle card game for two players.
Continue ReadingHold off the zombies using mental arithmetic. ‘City of Zombies’ is a fun, intuitive game that teaches math along the way.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Mel takes a look at Roger Ma’s new The Zombie Combat Field Guide: A Coloring and Activity Book for Fighting the Living Dead. Your survival may well depend on this book.
Continue ReadingCelebrate Halloween with… stuff. Lots and lots of stuff.
Continue ReadingCustom-made Halloween peg dolls, a plant that dies and comes back to life, and a game where you kill off your family to win!
Continue ReadingIt’s no secret that I’m a sucker for zombies. But, hey, apparently so are lots of other gamers. There are tons of zombie-themed games (Last Night on Earth was one of my first and still one of my favorites) and more coming all the time. Here are just a few that I saw at Gen Con this year that I think are worth mentioning.
Continue ReadingReviews this week include a new series on alien smugglers, a book starring a hero zombie you should be reading, and the newest installment of DC’s weekly book, Futures End.
Continue ReadingOn reflection, it probably wasn’t a great idea to spend a weekend in an abandoned hunting cabin with a cop, a convict, and a priest. Talk about awkward conversations. And that was before the zombies started showing up. In Dead Panic, you’ll try to hold off the zombies long enough to assemble a radio so you can call for rescuers.
Continue ReadingZombicide allows you and your friends to work together to achieve objectives in a customizable world filled with the undead.
Continue ReadingThanks to AMC and their zombies, I’m thinking there are a few New Yorkers who will never, ever, ever walk over a sidewalk grate again.
Continue ReadingMaking collections on eBay is a great way to come up with ideas for your own wish list, and as a gift idea list for others.
Continue ReadingThe Campbell Award for Best New Writer is given annually to one author who has published his or her first professional work within the past two years.
Continue ReadingYou 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 ReadingWhen most geeks think of crossing superheroes with zombies, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Marvel’s zombie universe. In that universe, however, most of the Marvel superheroes are zombies themselves, not fighting the good fight any longer. It made for an interesting twist, but I quickly lost interest after the first few story arcs. I prefer my heroes to be just that… heroes. In a world filled with zombies, I’m more interested in seeing how superheroes would survive and deal with the aftermath of a worldwide infection and the small number of survivors they would be protecting. And that’s exactly what has been delivered in Peter Clines EX-series of books.
Continue ReadingFirst off… a big spoiler warning here. This book review will be covering the new World War Z movie. I can’t really talk about some of the elements in the book without discussing a few of the plot points in the movie, so feel free to finish this paragraph if you haven’t yet seen the film, but read no further.
Continue Reading“Yeah, but what if I want to get my father something different?”
Continue ReadingReleased on April 23, 2013, and published by Broadway Paperbacks, Ex-Patriots: A Novel is Peter Clines’ follow-up novel to Ex-Heroes: A Novel. GeekMom has an exclusive excerpt. Plus, we are giving away signed copies of Ex-Heroes: A Novel, and Ex-Patriots: A Novel, courtesy of Broadway Paperbacks, to one lucky GeekMom reader.
Continue ReadingI’m an easy target for some publishers. Zombie novel? Yes, please. Superheroes fiction? Where’s my debit card? Wait… what did you say? Zombies AND superheroes? Are you kidding me? Novels, not comic books? Take my money now.
Continue ReadingIt’s not easy maintaining a healthy, still-alive glow when you’re a zombie, but Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan is here to help!
Continue ReadingThe winner has been selected. If you did not win, you can still download the exclusive GeekMom excerpt, and listen to Jules’ interview with Ex-Heroes author Peter Clines.
Continue ReadingSuperheroes. Zombies. Gripping. Action-packed adventure. Stories of overcoming personal and physical challenges. Cinematic-quality fight scenes. These are just some of the things you will find in Ex-Heroes.
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to deny that zombies are everywhere and now Fiona Goble has written Knit Your Own Zombies so you can have a less deadly version in your own home.
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