games

NEWS – Anyone who’s into role-playing has heard about Critical Role, the professional voice actors who live-streamed D&D sessions.  Matt Mercer, the group’s front man, has created an alternative RPG titled DaggerHeart.  It’s still in a fantasy setting, but its goal is to simplify the rules and focus more on storytelling.  It adds two mechanics

NEWS – I always thought it was cool how it was possible to throw a playing card so powerfully and precisely that it would stick in something like fruit or wood. Then I spied these ultimate throwing cards on coolthings.com, which takes throwing cards to a whole new level. They’re called Throwing Death Cards. There

NEWS – Game night will never be the same again with the P’kup. What is it? It’s a portable card lifter that uses suction to pick up to 50 cards at a time. We’ve all struggled with picking up playing cards in the center of a table. Scratching at the edges, trying to get under

NEWS – A couple of days ago, I posted about a miniature Atari 2600 console, and today, I have another retro toy. This time, it’s from the 80s. It’s a miniature Rubik’s cube style puzzle. The original Rubik’s cube was popular in the early 80s when I was a teenager. I remember buying one and

NEWS – When I was a kid, I relentlessly begged my dad for an Atari 2600. I ended up getting the Sears version because he worked there part-time and got a discount. I wore that thing out playing breakout, pong, and missle command. I remember going to bed at night and still seeing the graphics

NEWS – Tired of playing games on your phone? Then grab a Paper Apps DUNGEON Notebook, a pencil, dice, and you have all you need for some good old analog gaming fun! This little notebook is a single-player dungeon-crawler adventure game in your pocket. Each page is a different game that doesn’t require batteries, doesn’t

NEWS – I posted earlier today about edible birthday candles, and now I have a quick news post about another birthday-related product. This time, it’s a deck of Bicycle playing cards that help celebrate everyone’s favorite feathered grump – Donald Duck, who is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. This standard deck of playing cards

NEWS – For a little over a year, our family has enjoyed a great word game, unlike many that are played today. Why is it different? Well, it is not an online game, and it is not a board game*, and it is for people of different spelling skill levels, but not everyone has to

NEWS – University Games has been developing and selling board games, puzzles, interactive books, and educational toys for almost 40 years. They created the Colorforms Vinyl activity books, which I played with as a child in the early 80’s. The Night Hunter and Faeries & Magical Creatures are two new games by this venerable publisher.

NEWS – Spend hours with all the golden gaming greats with this Retro-Inspired Game Console, packing over 600 home arcade classics, now on sale for just $24.99. If you’re of a certain age, then you probably have fond memories of firing up your Nintendo NES and blissing out to hours of Mario Bros., Street Fighter,

NEWS – I learned something new this week for my favorite gadget, my iPad, so I thought I’d share it with you.  I have a 12.9 inch iPad Pro, a gadget that is all about content consumption.  I watch movies and TV shows with it, typically by using the Netflix app.  I also enjoy playing