Geekdad from Wired.com played the latest iteration of the Catan series of games and pronounced it good. I love the original and have it. It was a big hit at the men’s retreat this year. This one will appeal to you sci-fi geeks and personally I’ll be adding it to my Christmas list. An advantage [...]

Peter Hirschberg has recreated a vintage early 80′s arcade. He did all of the renovating on the cabinets himself, spending about $500 a game and untold time. Apparently it is open by invitation. According to Gizmodo he supplies the quarters to his guests wanting them only to revel in his obsession as he does. I [...]

Thanks to GeekDad I found MyMiniCity. It’s sort of SimCity meets Social Networking. Your city grows by clickthroughs. Check it out. My city’s name is SpiritualCity. Click for it to grooooow.

I used to play RPG’s and I ran across this one on Blogunder Schlock the blog for the Schlock Mercenary webcomic. Ken Burnside of Ad Adstra Games emailed me yesterday to show me this creation of his. It is brilliant in its brevity. It is a table-top RPG whose rule set fits entirely on one [...]

Thanks to Snopes I found FreeRice. You can improve your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry at the same time. The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their [...]

I’m not ordinarilly one to brag but Sid did insist. I played Settlers of Catan with Sid and his darling wife B4B (makes her sound like a droid) again last week and won! While it may not have been entirely flawless (it was a very close game) I won by making a trade with B4B [...]

Can’t talk, pretty busy. But I felt I must post this. If you haven’t played this game and are into board games in any way, you must play it. I was kindly invited to Sid’s house f’realz and his lovely wife cooked us an eqaully lovely dinner. Afterwards, while drinking coffee laced with Bailey’s and [...]