Mar 25, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
The Australian trio The Axis of Awesome are as comfortable performing in music venues as they are comedy festivals, with viral hits like “Four Chords” and “Rage of Thrones.” Musicians Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo, and Benny Davis have been performing hilariously...
Mar 25, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Want to create your own board game? You need more than big ideas. You need advice from an award-winning, patent-holding game designer. Andy Looney, creative director of Looney Labs, has been making his own games since he modified the board game Battle Cry into a...
Mar 18, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Want to introduce children to video games but afraid the only skill they’ll develop is a quick trigger finger? Fear not. Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, along with colleagues at Paris Descartes University, have found that children...
Mar 16, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Of all the seven deadly sins, the one we think of when we think of Japan is envy. That’s because they have more awesome per square mile than we have in entire states. Cat cafes. Bunny Island. Anime. Kaiju. Anime kaiju. But now when we think of Japan, we’re about to...
Mar 14, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Darth Maul appeared in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace as a whirling dervish of destruction before he was cut down by Obi-Wan Kenobi. But other than the fact that he knows his wushu and that he managed to survive Obi Wan’s lightsaber justice, we don’t know much about...
Mar 11, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Take two silent protagonists from two different Valve game series. Add cake. Mix in two very interesting weapons of choice. Voilà. You get one of the more amusing fan films, one where Gordon from Half-Life meets Chell from Portal. In this fan film from...
