Great Geek Debates: Comic-Con vs. PAX
San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC): Started in 1970, grown so large that LA is trying to convince it to move venues. It began as a comic book convention and now encompasses video games, movies,...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: Fan Club Treasurer
With PAX excitement winding down and two Comic Cons getting ready to invade my home town in a few weeks I thought we could use a puzzle about the staple of any Con: The Dealers Room. We all know how ...
View ArticleGreat Geek Debates: Dragon*Con vs. PAX
For the past three years, convention-going geeks have had to choose: Dragon*Con or PAX. Two conventions on opposite ends of the United States, each with its own unique programming, occurring during the...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle Of The Week Solution: Fan Club Treasurer
This weeks puzzle was all about money being spent by 4 groups of fans spending money at a Con. Here it is for old times sake: We all know how easy it is to spend money in the dealers room ...
View ArticleCritically Cool (GeekDad POTD)
A great picture of our own Jonathan Liu next to the giant 20-sided die near the Wizards of the Coast D&D bus at this year’s PAX Prime. As uploaded to the GeekDad Flickr Group.
View ArticleTell Us What You Want To Hear About During The GeekDad Panel At PAX East
Once again, the writers and editors of GeekDad will be going on the road to PAX East in Boston to talk about all sorts of things related to geeky parenting. We’ll be speaking at 1:00 on Saturday...
View ArticleTell Us What You Want To Hear About During The GeekDad Panel At PAX East...
Once again, the writers and editors of GeekDad will be going on the road to PAX East in Boston to talk about all sorts of things related to geeky parenting. We’ll be speaking at 1:00 on Saturday...
View ArticleHappy Birthday (and Happy PAX East) to Us!
If you’re a regular reader of GeekDad, you know that we don’t toot our own horn very often. Please forgive us, then, for this short bout of self-congratulatory excitement. First, and foremost, today is...
View ArticleThe PAX East Geek Parenting Panel Recommendations List
During the GeekDad panel at PAX East, we made a number of recommendations for games, books and comics that we really like. A few people asked us after the panel if we’d make the list available, so here...
View ArticleThe GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil
Ken, Matt, Jonathan and Jason chat about Google buying Motorola, Conan and Fright Night, and how much fun we’re going to have at PAX Prime. Enjoy! Special thanks to our sponsor Maphook, the...
View ArticleThe GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (GeekDad...
Ken, Matt, Jonathan and Jason chat about Google buying Motorola, Conan and Fright Night, and how much fun we’re going to have at PAX Prime. Enjoy! Special thanks to our sponsor Maphook, the...
View ArticlePAX Prime Starts Tomorrow – Find a GeekDad and Maybe Get a Prize
The big weekend is upon us! The Penny Arcade Expo starts tomorrow at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle, and the GeekDads will be there in force. Of course, the big deal for the...
View ArticleGeekDad’s PAX East Preview
Now spanning two coasts, west and east, the annual PAX conventions in Seattle (PAX Prime) and in Boston (PAX East) have become the two largest gaming events in North America. With PAX East only in its...
View ArticleThe GeekDads Episode #112: Eating Santa Claus’s Brain
Ken, Matt, and Jonathan catch up on the aftermath of PAX East and Gamestorm 14. Plus, Ken’s going to play with robots, and Matt’s seeing Avengers early! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com,...
View ArticleThe GeekDads Episode #112: Eating Santa Claus’s Brain (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Ken, Matt, and Jonathan catch up on the aftermath of PAX East and Gamestorm 14. Plus, Ken’s going to play with robots, and Matt’s seeing Avengers early! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com,...
View ArticleVideo of the PAX East Geek Parenting Panel!
See the video of the "Raising the Next Generation of Geeks" panel from PAX East, featuring writers from GeekDad and GeekMom.
View ArticleGet Ready for PAX Prime
PAX Prime is taking place this coming weekend in Seattle, and several GeekDads and GeekMoms will be in attendance. I'm looking forward to it myself, having missed a few of the other big gaming...
View ArticleProject Play in Southwestern Ontario
GeekDads of South-Western Ontario, if you like video games, tabletop games, board games, cosplay, and you like hanging out with hundreds of other similar-minded parents and kids, then take note that...
View ArticleGeekDad Approved | PAX Headed Down Under, Australian Geeks Rejoice!
The Australian Geek community is quietly humming with the recently announced news that PAX is headed south, much further than Texas. PAXAus will be held between 19-21 July, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.
View ArticleGoing to PAX East? Come See the GeekDads and GeekMoms!
If you're among those attending PAX East 2013 this weekend in Boston -- and if you're not already signed up, I'm afraid it's too late -- we'd like to meet you! Several of the GeekDad and GeekMom...
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