Aug 9, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Quantic Foundry, a game analytics consultancy, recently took a full 220,000 videogamers and studied their motivations. The results were obvious in retrospect: People choose games based on their personality. In other words, gamers who are extroverted like games with...
Jul 29, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Remember the 1965 board game Operation? In the game, you play a surgeon who has to remove plastic objects from different parts of a patient’s body with a pair of tweezers. If you accidentally touch the edges of the body cavity, you get buzzed. Your turn is over. It’s...
Jul 17, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
Making your friends hand over their resources to you in Settlers in Catan or revealing yourself to be a Cylon in Battlestar Galactica isn’t just satisfying on a personal level. It seems that this can help your brain as you age. According to the New York Times, Paul...
Jul 15, 2016 | Geek & Sundry
ThinkFun’s Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor is an escape-the-room game that can be played in your own home. You don’t need to bolt your doors and windows, and you don’t need to hide precious information in secret places. All you need are an ability to...
