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Kickstarter Alert: Go Places, Catch Ghosts, and Learn History With ‘Soul Catchers’ [#ad]

Soul CatchersIn the new app game ‘Soul Catchers,’ players get to travel to important places, capture famous ghosts, and learn about history along the way. [Sponsored}

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Kickstarter Alert: ‘What the What?!’ Is a Party Game About Pitching Peculiar Patents With Passion[#ad]

What the WhatIn the new party game ‘What the What?!’ players get to make their most serious, sassy, or hilarious product pitches, based on actual patents, to an investor. [Sponsored}

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5x Video and 5x Tabletop – 10 Awesome New Gaming Projects on Kickstarter This Week

From a Miyazaki-inspired side-scroller, to playing along with the election, the new game projects on Kickstarter this week are awesome!

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5x Video and 5x Tabletop – 10 Awesome New Gaming Projects on Kickstarter This Week

From playing as an avatar of nature to zombie golfers, this week’s new gaming projects on Kickstarter are awesome!

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The Wii Laptop Brings Portable Wireless Gaming

This is definitely the most impressive and good fun modification/hack I have seen in quite some time. Not being at all up to speed with a soldering iron, I respect those of you who engage in this type of activity.
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Wii Are Just Good Enough

It’s taken me a month or two but I’ve finally got around to writing something in response to Robert Capps’ article in Wired. His was a brilliant piece reflecting on the success of technology that is just good enough for its purpose – bringing savings in accessibility, simplicity and price. But I won’t rehearse that […] Continue reading

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Review and Giveaway: Every Geek’s Eyes Deserve Gunnars

The odds are that, if you don’t already have one, you could use a set of Gunnar Optiks glasses right now. If, like most geeks, you spend some significant portion of your day in front of a computer monitor — whether for work or for play — you’ve been straining your eyes. Ever get a […] Continue reading

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100 Games + 100 Cupcakes = Sweet!

We’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before, and about cupcakes, and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once, until now.
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Open Letter to the Hotel Industry: Time to Get Your Game On

Hello there, Hotel Industry Person, I am one of your customers. In fact, I’m a pretty good customer. I and my family have stayed in some of your hotels for weeks of total time in the last year on various vacations and business-related trips. I have helped you weather the current economic downturn, and have […] Continue reading

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