XCOM Giveaway: The Results Are In!

And the winner is... Image Source: Fantasy Flight Games Evan Derrick! Congratulations Evan! Please check your Twitter direct messages for all the details of your glorious victory! Thank you to everyone who participated in our contest. We received a lot of awesome entries and we had a lot of fun running this for you. Stay tuned! In the next few months we'll be running another giveaway, but the grand prize next time will be Armada! Notes: the winner was chosen at random via...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone and best wishes for a happy remainder of a con to all those attending PAX South right now. The GIR and I are trying to distract ourselves as we prepare for housing registration for Gen Con 2015. Regardless of what happens today, the Care and Feeding of Nerds will definitely be at Gen Con, as we are an officially accredited media outlet for the convention! Still, it will be a huge load everyone's shoulders once this nervewracking piece of the process is over and done with....

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Gias Games: Regeria Hope

Who doesn’t love how awesome it is to be an attorney? Reading agreements, researching case law, reviewing testimony, endless hours spent on Westlaw and LexisNexis, everything to get a law aficionado’s heart racing. If you are not a fan of that stuff then I am sure you just read that as sarcasm. If you are a fan, then you may be salivating at the prospect of doing some law-fu right now. If you are a gamer and enjoy the prospect of practicing law in a game, then you are most likely a...

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This Week in Geekdom

Happy weekend everyone! It's been a busy, but excellent couple of days here at the Care and Feeding of Nerds that have been chock-full of board games. All the board games! We're going to be bringing you tons of content on up-and-coming games in the very near future, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you can enter our contest to win a copy of XCOM: the Board Game.  Ok, are you back from entering the contest? Awesome. Now let's get down to the week in geekdom! TV/Movies All...

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XCOM: The Board Game Giveaway!

This is a contest that has been literal months in the making and we're thrilled that we can finally bring it to you! One of the single biggest attention-grabbers (and, consequently, one of the most hotly contested demos) at Gen Con 2014 was XCOM: The Board Game by Fantasy Flight Games. In my humble opinion, the title definitely lived up to every bit of the hype that surrounded it, but mass production of the game was plagued with delays in the months following the con. Fortunately, those...

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GiR by GIR: Depth

Over the holiday break I found myself absolutely buried in games, no thanks to the Steam Winter Sale. As a friend of mine likes to say, "Praise Gaben!" Between gifts of games and titles I just wanted to spend more hours on, I was having trouble deciding what to review next. Part of the issue here is I just felt like spending more time with things I had already covered *cough* FarCry 4 *cough* Yet out of all the new titles I had at my disposal, I found I kept launching one game in particular...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone; hope you're all warm and cozy as you read this. We're back up to something near normalish temperatures for January (about 28F/-2C versus the -2F/-19C we had most of this past week) though, honestly, between our latest giveaway, the goings on in our Playtesting Lab, and a few more fun developments that will hopefully be headed your way soon we haven't had time to give much thought to how freezing it's been. It is, however, a little surreal to think that PAX is just over 50...

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Nomnoms! Wild Rice Soup

If this post comes out with a misspelling or two, those can almost certainly be attributed to the fact that it was written from beneath a half dozen layers of sweaters/blankets and at least one pair of gloves. Ok, I’m not actually quite so bundled up, but it’s pretty darn brisk out there right now. January has announced itself with a mighty cold snap. Temperatures in the city have managed to creep up to 20 degrees (-6.67 degrees Celsius), but we’re preparing for them to drop down to -4...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone; hope you're all having a good weekend so far and that 2015 is off to a great start for you. We're inching back towards normalcy here after the holidays and my stubborn head cold so, barring unforeseen crazy, we'll be 100% back on our standard publication schedule starting today. Bonus: if you didn't see it go live on Friday, Elder Gias is running another giveaway! Ok, are you back from checking out the contest? Let's get down to the Week in Geekdom. Movies/TV Marvel is...

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F.E.A.R. on PC Giveaway!

Time for another giveaway! A couple of weeks ago I did a necro-review of F.E.A.R. for the PC. Now I am giving away a copy of the game for any interested readers out there. The rules for this giveaway are as follows: 1)      Join our Steam group, if you are not already a member, you can join HERE. 2)      Go to THIS discussion thread in the Steam group. 3)      Post a reply in the...

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Upcoming Awesomeness in 2015!

Happy 2015! Wow, it seems like we were just marveling in the new shininess of 2014 (or 2013 for that matter) and somehow we're already in Back to the Future territory. I don't know about you guys, but I get a kick out of comparing the cinematic predictions of the late 80s-early 90s once the dates featured in the films actually roll around. And hey, we may actually get hoverboards! While we wait for this potentially excellent way to commute, we can distract ourselves with other goodness...

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