My time at Dice Tower East 2025 was unforgettable—from teaching for Floodgate Games to meeting incredible people (and finally Tom Vasel!). Between board games, pool slides, and ridiculous clue-giving twins, this was the kind of chaos and c...
The Sims 4 brings back the chaos and creativity I’ve loved for decades, but locking seasons and holidays behind DLC is a cold move—literally. Shoutout to Stephanie for getting me hooked again, and to LilSimsie for keeping us company during...
Stardew Valley is the reason cozy games exist. It’s comforting, deep, and endlessly replayable—and it’s still the best game I’ve ever played...
I don’t like horror games—but Dead by Daylight has me HOOKED. Wildly tense, surprisingly funny, and packed with variety, it’s the horror game for people who think they don’t like horror games...
Skyrockets turns fireworks into frantic, beautiful chaos—with real-time tension, clever variety, and component quality that pops. Bring this to game night and keep it handy for a rapid adrenaline f...
Landmarks is a one-word, hex-crawling treasure hunt that blends brainpower with chaos. It’s like Codenames got lost in a jungle with a dry erase marker and a backpack full of curses. Highly r...
Pandemic is a brilliant co-op board game where saving the world will make you sweat, yell, and maybe fire your friend as team leader. Hilarious, stressful, and wildly rewarding—especially if you don’t let Steve play as the Dispatcher aga...
Ticket to Ride is what happens when a board game is simple, beautiful, and addictive in all the right ways. A perfect entry point for non-gamers—and still fun for the diehards. This is how you get Grandma h...
You don’t need to know the show. Just understand people—and how much they lie. Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game is brutal, brilliant, and one of the best social deduction experiences ever mad...
The teaser trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has dropped, and excitement is running high in our house! My son and I absolutely...
On the surface, Dave Portnoy, the brash, pizza-reviewing founder of Barstool Sports, and Burnie Burns, the innovative creator behind Rooster Teeth, seem worlds apart...
Originally written on the old blog in 2022 Hey all you nerds and nerdettes! With everything going on in the world, it’s easy to [...
