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Best Family Games of the Summer
Over on the Family Gamer site we have been busy sifting through the summer glut of games to decide which games are best for families. It’s that time of year when we award our Family Gamer Awards. These...
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Every Family Needs a Talisman
We all love board games at GeekDad, so I was excited when iguk sent over the forth edition of Talisman. As many will know this is the much awaited upgrade adds 14 3D figures, a fresh revision of the...
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Fun, Spatial Thinking for the Entire Family
This past Christmas, the kids got a couple Wii games, some new handheld games, and one got an iPod Touch. Besides the iPod Touch never leaving my oldest teen’s hands (even when asleep I believe), the...
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Level One: Delving Into Dungeons & Dragons As A Family
We stood outside the tomb, watching it collapse. Then we got our Experience Points and had pie. In a moment a quarter-century in the making, I completed my first Dungeons & Dragons quest this...
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Wii Party Gets Physical
We often talk about the balance been real (as in physical) games and electronic entertainment in our household. The Wii has helped blur this divide somewhat, but there is still no getting away from the...
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It’s That Halo: Reach Moment: A Family Gamer’s First Thoughts
Having crammed as many hours as I could into Halo: Reach before the review embargo, and written up my family gaming thoughts, I realized my take on the game would probably be a little different. It...
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Is Wii-Party the Video Game Of The Year?
I wasn’t expecting Wii-Party to do anything particularly special. In fact it took some encouragement from my kids to play it over the weekend. I’m so glad they did because it’s a total treasure trove...
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Wii-Party‘s Living Room Revolution
It’s not often I get approached by someone who wants to write something about a game they’ve just played. It’s even rarer for this to be anyone over the age of 30. So when a reviewer friend’s wife...
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Tiger Woods Wii, Move Over?
Now that I’m over the first blush of excitement of the PlayStation 3′s Move controller, I thought it time to have a look at some of the games in more detail. What I found was a surprising array of...
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Looking Forward to the Best Nintendo 3DS Games
After digging into the 3DS hardware a couple of weeks ago, I got rather excited about Nintendo’s new gaming machine. Not just for a new shiny piece of kit, but for the new and creative ways it will...
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Pairing Wii and DS Games Adds to Family Fun
We’ve recently got into the habit of spending a little more on the videogames we like and buying both the Wii and DS version. There are a combination of reasons we do this that range from being able to...
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Kinect Joy Ride Knows Who You Are
I was a little skeptical of Kinect before I tried it, but I keep coming across features that make gaming a lot easier for my family. Most recently we’ve been playing Kinect Joy Ride. Although hands...
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Motion Sports Balances Kinect’s Controls
Kinect has been a pretty popular piece of kit in our household, but as we’ve worked through some of the launch game we’ve had to learn to be a little bit picky over what we invest our money in. In ...
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Looking Forward to the Nintendo 3DS
I’ve been more than happy with my DS for many years now. The steady flow of original games and ability to play my favorite GBA cartridges is a formula that is as good today as it ever was. But since ...
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A GeekDad’s Daughter Reinvents Chess, Part 2: How to Play Plastic Animal Chess
In response to the groundswell of interest, admiration and inquiries about Mark Changizi‘s daughter’s reinvention of chess, here are the full set of rules of Plastic Animal Chess: The game proceeds...
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In response to the groundswell of interest, admiration and inquiries about Mark Changizi‘s daughter’s reinvention of chess, here are the full set of rules of Plastic Animal Chess: The game proceeds...
View ArticleSurvey Results Challenge Gaming Stereotypes
Here at GeekDad, we are always interested in digging past the hyperbole and challenging ideas and assumptions that are not considered and well supported. For this reason, I find the results of Digital...
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Review: Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show
I am new to the game show genre of video games and I was skeptical about the amusement offered by Electronic Arts’s Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show. I approached my fifteen year-old son...
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