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I swear . . . last time I checked, I was grumbling about Christmas decorations being for sale at the same as Halloween decorations were up, and now I look at the calendar and suddenly December 25 is a handful of days away. Time has no meaning . . ....

Munchkin experts Will Schoonover (our Munchkin Line Editor) and Devin Lewis (the Munchkin Associate Developer) were interviewed last month by Manny Ortiz from Really Dicey!   The conversation, which you can view here, discussed the origins of Munchkin Shadowrun, the art direction, illustrator Lar DeSouza, and how Shadowrun came to be combined with the...

If you're looking to set an appropriate wintery landscape and are of a certain geeky mindset, NASA has posted an eight-hour rocket-engine fireplace on YouTube. It also has an incredibly amusing closed-captioning. I don't want to spoil it, but it'd make a great Daily Illuminator title . . . --...

All-you-can-play arcades are popping up around the nation. They've become incredibly popular in recent years, and for good reason: One admission price covers, as the name promises, as many games as you'd like to play! Often known as "barcades," they're absolutely family friendly, though many offer 18+ evening hours and...

Our household is currently enjoying a few different Advent calendars, with daily treats from IKEA, cheeses and hot sauces from Aldi, and Professor Charlie's World Tour. And I've drooled over the various LEGO Advent sets in stores. For gamers, I know of companies who offer their own "dice set a...

I recently attended BGG.CON at the Hyatt Regency Reunion Tower in Dallas, and there were over 2,500 players present!  A few of our team members staffed a booth in the exhibit hall, and we featured demos of some of our newest/coolest releases, including Car Wars Orange/Purple, Pathfinder Revolution!, and Hack &...

If you're anything like me, you've called Elasmosaurus or Mosasaurus a dinosaur only to be immediately excoriated by the nearest paleo nerd, quick to tell you why that's dead wrong. You see, those are merely dinosaur-like reptiles (big ol' fossil guys with names ending in "saur"). There weren't any aquatic...

A recent article notes that automaker Hyundai is planning to move back to physical buttons in cars, after customers seem to be rejecting touchscreen controls. Speaking as someone who doesn't much care for tapping on a screen while I'm driving 70mph on the interstate (and owns a Hyundai!), I'm intrigued...