12 Geeky New Year’s Resolutions — 2011 Edition
Last year about this time I posted 12 Geeky New Year’s Resolutions. How did I do, you ask? Well, not too shabby but not that great either. I went to at least one con, I didn’t go green but I ...
View ArticleBalancing Board Games and Babies, Part II
My Pokemon mentor once said to me, “The family that games together, stays together.” He couldn’t be more correct. A few weeks ago I shared with you how my husband and I balance being parents and...
View ArticleA Good Idea: Lego + Minecraft
The Lego Cuusoo Beta is helping bring some great Lego ideas to light, but none more geeky, educational and clever than the idea of bringing the 8-bit animated goodness of Minecraft to Lego. A Cuusoo...
View ArticleProductivity Warning: Minecraft for iOS Released
Fans — or should that be addicts? — of Minecraft now have another means of getting their building fix with the just-released Minecraft – Pocket Edition for iOS. The iOS version follows, and is pretty...
View ArticleLego Minecraft: A Real Possibility?
Over at Online Toy News they have been closely following the developments around Minecraft and Lego possibly teaming up, ever since the idea was floated on Lego Cuuso. The Lego Cuuso Minecraft ideas...
View ArticlePhysical Minecraft With MineToys
Regardless of your love or hate for the game, there is no denying that Minecraft is an indy game success story. They recently topped 4.3 million sales and 18 million registered users. They’ve got a...
View ArticleLego Minecraft is Coming
It has just been announced. Minecraft Lego is coming. The whole episode began several months ago through the worldwide beta program of Lego Cuuso. Several inventive Minecraft and Lego fans uploaded...
View ArticleLego Minecraft Now Available for Pre-Order
The turnaround has been rapid: The first Lego Minecraft sets will be available this summer! The news just announced by Lego and Mojang in joint press conference in Denmark is that you can pre-order...
View ArticleMinecraft Mods and Homeschooling
First, this Geekdad idea is great! I have two boys, 10 and 6, and I’ve resigned myself to the label of ‘geek’ or something analogous. As I get used to posting under my own name and not a snarky and ...
View ArticleMSI Takes on Minecraft
How many geeky dads and geeky moms want to play their favorite game when they are on the go, instead of waiting to get back to their home PC? But you need a hefty machine that can deal with running ...
View ArticlePlaying Minecraft With a MaKey MaKey
Since my last mention of the MaKey MaKey we've been playing around with it. We've recreated a few of the other experiments seen on the MaKey MaKey site, and it's been a lot of fun to see my daughter...
View ArticleBuild With Lego Bricks Online in Google Chrome
As if Minecraft wasn't enough of a distraction. Now, news has come from the Official Google Australia Blog that you can lose more untold hours building - this time with Lego bricks online. The project,...
View ArticleHow Do Your Kids Navigate Social Networks?
A recent report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center has identified that we don't actually know enough about how pre-teens use online social networking. The researchers have done a good job in helping us...
View ArticleFamily Survival Minecraft Video Series
If you and your kids are looking for an entertaining and family-friendly video series on Minecraft, look no further than Paul Soares Jr's YouTube channel.
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