Meet Edison Thomas. He loves science, he invents gadgets, and his favorite band is They Might Be Giants. He also has Asperger’s Syndrome. Edison Thomas is the protagonist of Jacqueline Houtman’s book The Reinvention of Edison Thomas. Eddy, as he is known to his friends and family, has many similar ...

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I’m awfully excited about the Dark Ascension card we’ve been given to preview. It’s powerful and sinister, a game-changer that can put the fear of destruction in your opponent toward the end of the game — the monster is actually cheaper to cast the more creatures populate your graveyard. Woah. ...

We were digging through the storage shed to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long time. For all the GeekDads who have gamed, as I ...

If you’ve got a child of upper elementary or middle school age who enjoys reading and likes spooky stories, you’ll definitely want to check out Ghosts of Rockville: Search for fhe Dominion Glass, a new book by Justin Heimberg. It’s the first book in the Ghosts of Rockville series, and ...

Console gaming has changed. In fact, one could make an easy case for flat out evolution. With gaming, gamers have evolved as well. Where once the stereotypical gamer was a fat pimple-faced kid in his mom’s basement, hands covered in Cheetos dust and a two-liter of Mountain Dew with a ...

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Since last year’s relaunch of its comics universe, DC Comics has been doing their part to keep the new continuity clean and free of cross-overs. They seem to be holding tight, for the moment, on their moratorium on mega-events. What they are doing, as evident in books like Animal Man ...

Most everyone that reads GeekDad has at least one friend or co-worker that can recite Pi out to a few dozen digits — or, more likely, we are that friend or co-worker. A lot of us probably have quite a few numbers “embedded” in our brains, like old street addresses, ...

Wizards of the Coast announces a crowd-sourced effort for developing the next iteration of its venerable tabletop RPG, but will this be enough to bring back a fractured fan community?