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2 days ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu
Expand your options for Earth by introducing animals that will interact with the flora and terrain. What Is Earth: Animal Kingdom? Earth: Animal Kingdom is an expansion to Earth, a tableau-building game for 1 to 6 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 45–90 minutes to play. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. You do need the Earth base game to play.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu
Assemble your capital ship and engage in space battle in this deck-building game. What Is Solar Titans? Solar Titans is a deck-building battle game for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 30–60 minutes to play. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with a pledge level of $25 for a copy of the game.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Ray Goldfield |Jonathan H. Liu
Wonder Woman #20 – Tom King, Writer; Guillem March, ArtistRay: In the aftermath of the battle with the Sovereign, Diana is taking a bit of a breather – so of course, that means going into battle with the literal Gods. She gets an urgent message from her mother, Hippolyta – conveyed through a talking goat, as you do. Ares has been murdered, found dead in his bed – and Hippolyta was next to him, and is now prime suspect #1.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu |Ken Denmead |Michael Knight |Mariana Ruiz
When I was a kid, we had two record players. One was my sister’s Fisher Price record player (circa 1978) that served as its own carrying case. While it was capable of playing full-size records, we were only allowed to use it for our 45s. I remember having several of those book-and-record sets (“when you hear this sound—*briiiing*—turn the page!”).
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu |Will James
Factions compete for territory in a world wrecked by climate change. What Is Dealers in Hope? Dealers in Hope is a deck-building wargame for 3 to 5 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 90–150 minutes to play. It’s launching soon on Kickstarter, with a pledge level of $69 for a copy of the game, which will also include the expansion.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu
A lot of people like to collect things, sometimes useful and sometimes not. Our house is filled with books and board games (probably not a surprise), but we also have a windowsill covered with rocks of different sizes, and a whole lot of mugs from different places, and way too many charging cables. My kids have collected things like the little plastic stands inside pizza boxes, little animal eraser puzzles, acorns, and late slips from school.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu
This year’s GeekDad Game of the Year timeline was a little different, as I mentioned when we announced our 2024 Finalists, but the process is still the same. After a few months of juggling schedules (as it turns out, waiting until after the winter holidays does not automatically mean we have plenty of free time!), we finally got together for a weekend of gaming. This year it took place at my home in Portland, Oregon, where I was joined by Rob Huddleston, Paul Benson, and Alex Hart.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Corrina Lawson |Jonathan H. Liu
Currently, the two go-to authors for my regularly scheduled horror fix are Grady Hendrix and Stephen Graham Jones, and, while 2025 has been a mess in pretty much every other conceivable way, the year has already provided me with top-shelf entertainment from both. January kicked off with Hendrix’s Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, a study of institutional misogyny and witchcraft as female empowerment set in the turbulent 1970s at a home for unwed mothers.
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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Jonathan H. Liu
I Am Raven is the follow-up to Alastair Chisholm’s I Am Wolf. It picks up almost immediately where the action left off. In this book, Chisholm reveals many answers to the questions posed in book one. We learn more about the Brann, Coll, and the world they inhabit. A new implacable villain appears. This is a direct follow-up to I Am Wolf and should not be read without reading that book first.
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2 weeks ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu
Today’s stack is some science fiction novels I’ve read lately. There are stories of robots and aliens and monsters, talking cats and talking plants, giant bugs and synthetic kids. Buckle up!Luminous by Silvia ParkSet in the future in a unified (but still tense) Korea, Luminous pictures a world in which robots are a part of everyday life. Imagine Friends is one of the biggest producers of robots, which people buy as household workers, caretakers, nannies, or sometimes even as substitute children.
