An unbreakable toy is wonderful thing, not least for its ability to break other toys. But a broken toy, as I’ve discovered over the first few years with young children, can be just as much fun as when it was working. We have a bag in our house that contains ...

Though I even have to remind myself of this fact, Nintendo’s fourth quarter releases aren’t strictly limited to Zelda and Mario titles. While those games have rightly earned the lion’s share of attention from both gamers and reviewers, there are actually a handful of other first-party releases that likewise warrant ...

Having recently written about Ghost Trick and Solatorobo in glowing terms this week, I was happy to see them discounted in Amazon today (Ghost Trick is $12.59 and Solatorobo is $17.11). If Okamiden gets a similar discount I’ll be suspicious that they have been reading GeekDad — and why not? ...

Kids can create their own mini-games on the 3DS or Wii with this inexpensive title.

It’s not until you start to explain the different features of the 3DS that you realize how complicated this stuff is if you haven’t got a long history with gaming. As one console builds on features of the previous one, you need to go back a few generations to really ...

Although Nintendo isn’t currently going with the “save the best till last” approach, what with Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land hitting the system earlier than usual, it’s interesting to see that some of the best DS games are still only seeing the light of day this year. There ...

Superhero video games seem to run the gamut from the utterly inspired (like the recent Batman Arkham titles) to the laughably unplayable (Superman for the N64). Sadly, it seems as though most licensed comic book titles fall into the latter category. I originally had high hopes for Activision/Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny, ...

One seldom uses the phrase “more of the same” as a compliment, but as I get older I find I have more respect for consistency. Do I want new and innovative ideas? Of course! And yet I am also down to enjoy a minor variation on an old theme. Providing, ...

GeekDad presents the first episode of its new video game web series for families: Family Gamer TV. Each episode will premiere exclusively on GeekDad every other Friday. Here’s how it came to be: Family Gamer TV (FGTV) has been a GeekDad project I’ve been working towards for over a year. Writing ...

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Phineas and Ferb. The TV show is, for my money, one of the better TV shows of any kind on today, and far and away the best family-friendly cartoon — and I loved the recent TV movie Phineas and Ferb: Across ...