For the past three years, convention-going geeks have had to choose: Dragon*Con or PAX. Two conventions on opposite ends of the United States, each with its own unique programming, occurring during the same Labor Day weekend. What’s a geek to do? Dragon*Con (D*C) began as a get-together for users of a ...

I may have mentioned before that, aside from having missed the entirety of Star Trek: The Next Generation, another gap in my geek resume is that I’d never actually played Dungeons & Dragons before. In middle school I made up my own “mazes” for friends, using d6s ...

Following up on my earlier post, here are some brief impressions of some other board games from PAX Prime. These are all games about taking over the world—be it a small island, the New World, or Earth itself. Invasion from Outer Space Microsoft Surface: Settlers of Catan Small World Conquest of Planet Earth Settlers of ...

As much as I enjoy video games (both consoles and PC), I’ve never been all that good at them, and since having kids I just don’t really play that much—not least because if I don’t let my kids watch violent movies and TV shows, I figure I shouldn’t let them ...

It was sort of a last-minute decision for me to attend PAX Prime. I’d read (with some amount of envy) about the GeekDads attending PAX East earlier this year but hadn’t even considered the possibility of attending PAX myself, at least not this year —we had too many trips planned, ...

Thus speaketh the PAX Prime schedule: Saturday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Wolfman Theatre Raising Geek Generation 2.0: Roll For Parenting Ability How young is too young for The Hobbit? Why is LEGO Star Wars the best console game for your child? What’s the best way to deal with bullying? How can I ...