This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone, hope you're all having a great weekend (and a happy con if you're one of the lucky people currently attending UK Expo). We've had our collective noses to the Gen Con preparatory grindstone this week, some of the results of which you'll see in the very near future. So. Much. Costuming. Goodness. We'll also have a full recap of last week's alien encountering adventures. But, for now, let's get down to the Week in Geekdom. Games So far, all we know is its name, and even...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone and best wishes for a happy long weekend to those who've been able to configure such a nice unofficial start to summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Today's post is going to be a bit on the short side, as I'm currently participating in my very first MegaGame today. My fellow gamers and I will be reacting to the first extraterrestrial contact here on planet Earth in the campaign Watch the Skies! It should make for fun times and you can follow along in our adventures...

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Movie Review - Mad Max: Fury Road

Oh guys, I wanted to write this pretty much the second the GIR and I left the theater and I had to reign myself in so I could go to bed at a reasonable hour. It’s been a week and I’m still ridiculously excited about Mad Max: Fury Road. Seriously, I may go see it again this weekend if it's at all possible. **This will be a spoiler-free review. Any linked content will be marked in BOLD if it contains spoilers.** For the first time in thirty years we return to the barren, desolate...

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Book Review: CONfidence

It’s almost like the interwebs knew we were on a quest to feature more content outside of the realms of gaming. In the past few weeks we’ve gotten quite a few new original texts that we’ll be sharing with you. We got to glimpse into the dragons’ temple and now we transition to a very different, perhaps more familiar realm of life in a high school.  For high school is where the bulk of the action takes place in CONfidence: the Diary of an Invisible Girl, the debut...

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This Week in Geekdom

Gah, where's the pause button on this crazy thing? Seriously, the weeks are just blazing by and we're somehow already registering for events for Gen Con (good luck to everyone registering today!). Shameless plug: our panel is event ID SEM1571537! We'd love to see you if you're going to be attending Gen Con too! Aside from Gen Con-ery, we have a bunch of fun goings-on that we'll be telling you all about in the not-so-distant future. We'll get to that soon though. For now, let's get...

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Gias Games: Off-Peak by Cosmo D

Off-Peak is a first person “experience” from the developer Cosmo D which features music from Archie Pelago. It's free to download. This is Cosmo’s first foray into “game” development. In the interest of full disclosure, Cosmo D was a childhood friend of mine. He was one of the most talented musicians I have ever met, but it was quite a surprise to hear that he had decided to venture into “game” development. The best way to describe this experience is if you can imagine...

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Book Review: Priestess of the Dragons' Temple

It’s been little while since we last featured a book on here and, as we mentioned last week, we’re gung ho to bring more topical diversity your way. Woot! As an added bonus, this review builds upon the couplet of posts we featured last winter that introduced us to the lush fantasy world of Theranis. Author Amelia Smith brings us the next chapter of her Anamat quintilogy, Priestess of the Dragon’s Temple. ...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Aside from celebrating our moms (and Star Wars and Free Comic Book Day), we're buckling down and putting our noses to the Gen Con preparatory grindstone (only 79 days left!). On that note, if you were planning sending a prototype or review copy of a board game to our Playtesting Lab, we strongly encourage you to check out the Lab's summer schedule. But enough administrativeness; let's get down to the week in Geekdom. Games Oh...

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GiR by GIR: Lost Orbit

Even with a 3-Day badge to PAX East it’s impossible to see everything and sometimes games will slip past your radar. This week I’m here to talk about one such game, Lost Orbit, an interesting indie title developed and published by PixelNAUTS. It's difficult to pin a genre label on Lost Orbit, as it's a neat little blend of rich atmospheric storytelling, speed runner, lite-rpg, and has been referred to elsewhere as a "dodge ‘em up". Players take on the role of Harrison,...

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This Week in Geekdom

Hi everyone. Hope you're all having a great weekend thus far. The GIR and I are still a bit giddy after our first foray into 5th Edition D&D yesterday. It felt so incredibly good to be back at a table again. We've done a handful of online-based games, but there's definitely something to be said about gathering friends around a screen and physically rolling our dice. But enough reminiscing; let's get down to the Week in Geekdom. Comics The big buzz this week centered primarily...

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