Earlier this week I covered a book (Fitness for Geeks) and fitness tracking service aimed at kids (GeoPalz). The book has a chapter devoted to fitness devices as well as plenty of software mentioned for those interested in tracking variables related to their exercise and daily routines. The GeoPalz service, ...

After a long wait, Starhawk releases this week. The game, a third person shooter and spiritual successor to the game Warhawk, features a rich single player campaign and a deep multiplayer experience. To find out more about the game, we talked to Dylan Jobe, president of Lightbox Interactive, who developed ...

With all the excitement around Double Fine Production's Kickstarter success it's easy to forget where they have come from, and their other successes in unusual video-game development strategies. Case in point are their "Amnesia Fortnight" games where the developers were granted two weeks to forget their current big project and tasked ...

This year, the Austin-based company upped the ante for STEM education once again by introducing a number of hardware add-ons that allow students to have access to equipment at a low cost, allowing for education, experimentation, and innovation outside of the classroom. These miniaturized systems provide students the opportunity to ...

The folks over at GeoPalz kindly provided me with a new and improved test unit for the GeoPalz.com online service. This service has been previously reviewed on GeekDad, but they've made some improvements and added new features to both the device and the online tools since then. Decker was provided ...

Piano Apprentice is an app-cessory. It turns your iPad into a small electronic piano with the ability to play video tutorials and sells itself as a piano teaching tool.

Welcome to Geek Fitness Week! Getting in shape isn't just for the contributors of jockdad.com. I think there's this misconception that geeks are just sitting around with an X-Large drink in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other as we read our game manuals or watch our favorite ...

GeekDad's own Andy Robertson gives a wonderful talk at TEDxExeter on exploring new ways to think about videogames.

Technology can bring people together and make our world more connected. However, if we are not careful about our assumptions, it can also lead to us inhabiting very different realities. For instance, it's easy to think that everyone who owns a videogame console is online and downloading games directly from ...

I'm sure you'll be bombarded with tweets wishing you a Happy Star Wars Day, no doubt hashtagged #StarWarsDay and Sony Online Entertainment is doing its part to help celebrate this most hallowed of holidays by offering everyone a free Nelona Dual-Bladed Lightsaber, just like Darth Maul's. Catch is that it's ...