After a long winter’s day, ever wish you could just cozy up in the Burrow and have Molly Weasley whip you up a little roast chicken with mashed potatoes? Or feast in the Great Hall on some lamb chops? Now you can… with a bit of Muggle work. When I ...

Three GeekDad icons share a birthday today! Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922, is the creator of Spider-Man and former head of Marvel Comics. Lee is almost as well-known as his famous comic book heroes, making cameo appearances in movies of The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The ...

Since I first started using Kickstarter, I’ve backed about 40 projects, some at the minimum “I just want to help” level and a couple at a higher level with bigger rewards. For the most part, I’ve supported a lot of board games, for which there’s typically a minimum level for ...

This week on Family Gamer TV, with a little help from Warner, we equipped our families with Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 on the 3DS and Xbox 360 to see how they would get on. This was not only their first experience of the 3DS but also of this type ...

Sometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. Suddenly you find yourself talking to your kids after you ...

Bert & Ernie are really just good friends. 1. Bert & Ernie Record GPS Voices Bert & Ernie have a long, long history together. They’ve can always be seen, hand-in-hand, getting into trouble. They act like some old married couple that enjoys arguing at the most inappropriate time, leaving you ...

As soon as the Harry Potter series started hitting best-seller lists, something came along for the ride: the detractors. The most vocal of these were usually conservative, religious people who felt that the series promoted witchcraft, among other things, and that children shouldn’t be allowed to read them. In some ...

You know what the kids like? That Harry Potter. What with the Quidditch and the Triwizard Tournament and the snogging – I mean, what’s not to love? That’s why today, on our 4th day of Trick or T-Shirt Week, we reflect on his accomplishments with this “Horcrux Collectors Club” tee. ...

The Harry Potter franchise is the top grossing film series of all time, pulling in more than $12 billion, to date. But soon, all of the Harry Potter movies will disappear from store shelves faster than you can say “Evanesco.” Warner Brothers, taking a page out of Disney’s Vault spellbook, will ...

Historically, there have probably always been people whose response to ideas they didn’t like was not to present a different viewpoint, but to try to forcibly quiet the people with those ideas. This has been applied in many different ways, but none quite so obvious or pervasive as in banning ...