Feb
17
2012
I have backed Zong Shi on Kickstarter a while back and like most I am eagerly waiting on it to come in so I can play it. Luckily for me a buddy of mine has a knack for getting advance copies of things and I managed to play it twice in the past week. I […]
Feb
06
2012
Anyone who has listened to our podcast (The Geek Allstars) will know that one of our ranks, Todd (Gyroplay), is a colorblind gamer. Generally this has been only a minor inconvenience to him in the game and also garners the usual good natured ribbing by the rest of us. However, it wasn’t until our latest […]
Nov
21
2011
Hey GeekJock what’s the deal? Why have you been so damn slack for the last month or two??? Well at least I have a fairly good excuse for being slack. Ever since July I have been planning a charity event in honor of my daughter who has been diagnosed with Turner Syndrome for just under […]
Sep
20
2011
The weekend had finally arrived… it was basically my first board gaming convention ever. I have always been a big gamer, both in board games and in card games (and obviously video games but we all knew that) but it was a little over a year ago that I took the plunge and decided to […]
Aug
23
2011
I have been wanting to do some game reviews or some posts on board games for some time now. What’s been stopping me? I am glad you asked… well I will tell you. Mostly the fact that I am not the best teacher of games in the world. It doesn’t mean that I CANNOT teach […]
Feb
02
2011
As far as board games go, one game that is responsible for turning tens of thousands of nay sayers into gamers again is 2008’s classic Dominion. It’s now responsible for the whole new game push of the Living Card Games (LCG’s). LCG’s basically take all the fun of Collectible Card Games (CCG’s) and turn it […]
Jan
26
2011
I wanted to take a few seconds to send out my utmost prayers and condolences to Tom Vasal (from The Dice Tower) and his family on the loss of his newborn son Jack. He was born prematurely and had complications from then on. I simply cannot imagine what you are going through as a family and […]
Dec
03
2010
As the press would have the whole country to believe, the economy is in the shitter. (I don’t believe it anymore, but that’s for another day) What people tend to do when they fear spending too much money, is they stay home and entertain themselves. This is why console markets, MMOs and now board games […]