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Our 12 Days of Geekmas celebration heads into the weekend with the wind at its back and the… sun in its… eyes? Wow, I stopped just short of some functional imagery there. What I mean is it’s Saturday, and we’re …

Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Some suggestions for parents on how to talk to your kids about the tragedy in Connecticut.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is perhaps the most expected journey audiences will go on this year. We’ve all been madly waiting to venture back to Middle-earth — back to Peter Jackson’s cinematic version of Tolkien’s world. The anticipation, and …

28 people, including 18 children, killed in shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

The new Hobbit production video is up!

Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.

Someone has sent a replica of the journal in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to the University of Chicago.

In just a few hours, Jeff McCord will be hosting his second Kick-a-thon, a celebration of cool Kickstarter projects (with a focus on gaming). If you like Kickstarter and gaming, tune in anytime between 9am and midnight (Pacific) today or …

The 1977 animated television adaptation of The Hobbit – like its title character, perhaps – holds up far better than expected, 35 years later.

While the story has been compressed to a TV-friendly 77 minutes and there are some visual and …

Annie Bellet’s Avarice gives the police procedural a twist when she adds it to a fantasy world. The result is a surprisingly good hybrid.

I had a Google Hangout with Bradley Cummings (iOS Board Games) and John Meindersee II (Campfire Creations) to talk about games, game design, and designing for the iPhone vs. iPad.

I’ve been careless about choosing monitors for the desktop PCs in my house. Partially, this is because the monitors are for the kids and my kids aren’t always kind to technical equipment, so much so that I often buy monitors …

Our crazy, argument-inducing, week-long project of asking people to nominate all things best in science fiction and fantasy continues. Today we embarking on a more contentious category. We seek nominations for the top science fiction movies.

Made in Me brings its BAFTA nominated educational game, The Land of Me, to the iPad with three apps, one based around storytelling, one dealing with songs and rhyming and the third adding a little dose of physics fun into …

As we near the halfway point of this year’s 12 Days of Geekmas Ken and I are parched, restless and mildly delusional. Giving away stuff is hard work, people, but we endure. For you!

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We have to post this because io9 has finally stated for the record what we’ve knowa all along: Geek Dads are sexy. Yes, the truth is out there at last. And even better, they’ve recognized one of our own: Senior …

A review of a fantastic new app that allows children to tell stories with friends and families over vast distances.

My precioussssss …. Lego. Iain Heath, a software engineer and dad from Seattle, sculpted this pair of Lego figures depicting the pivotal encounter between Bilbo and Gollum. Pretty sweet.