If you’ve spent any time on Kickstarter perusing successful projects, you may have realized we are in a sort of board game renaissance. Forget the classics, there’s a suite of complex, art-driven, engaging board games…
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The ‘Legend of Zelda’ Games Are Coming to a Portable Game & Watch Console
To this day, Legend of Zelda remains one of our favorite video game franchises of all time–despite the fact it’s thirty-five years old. There are definitely prettier, more action-packed options these days, but when it…
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Zebra Pen STEEL – The “Write” Tool for Anyone
Are you looking for a stylish and durable everyday writing tool? Elevate your writing experience and show off your distinctive style with the Zebra Pen STEEL Series. The entire month of November, Zebra Pen is celebrating their STEEL line! Combining style strength and value, their wide variety of stainless-steel writing tools in the STEEL Series ensure writing comfort with industry-leading precision and stability. This series is called a classic for a reason – they are the ”write” tool for anyone and any job.
Arcade1Up Is Remaking ‘The Simpsons’ Arcade Game
The 2021 iteration of E3–aka the Electronic Entertainment Experience–is set to kick off this Saturday, June 12th. Arcade1Up decided to start the party early by revealing that they’re re-releasing a new version of a beloved…
Yahtzee Cup Noodles Special Edition
If your college experience was anything like ours, your dining hall meal plan was frequently supplemented by the iconic Cup Noodles ramen experience. Not quite proper ramen, not quite soup but cheap as hell and…
Lego Is Celebrating Pride Month and Diversity With the ‘Everyone Is Awesome’ Set
When it comes to catchy jingles, there are few modern examples that are more ear-worm-y than Tegan and Sara’s “Everything is Awesome” featuring The Lonely Island from the original LEGO Movie. Everyone’s favorite brick builder…
The Latest R2-D2 LEGO Set Is the Most Advanced Yet
We’ve spent more of our adult lives building LEGO Star Wars sets than we’d care to talk about, but as long as the iconic and popular brick builder keeps churning out sets like this latest…
LEGO NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Kit
When it comes to building models of your favorite National Aeronautics and Space Administration vehicles, you won’t find better than the options from everyone’s favorite brick-builder, LEGO. Joining the likes of the LEGO NASA Space…
Nerf’s Latest Fires Around Corners
In case you never saw the movie Wanted, the most redeeming aspect of the film–save the crazy Dodge Viper car chase scene–was the character’s ability to bend bullet trajectory to their will around corners. Hasbro’s…
LEGO Creator 31111 Cyber Drone
At first glance, the LEGO Creator 31111 Cyber Drone Set is a 3-in-1 set with a pair of rotating adjustable thrusters, posable elevators and a cockpit with an opening winshield. After further inspection, you can…
LEGO Botanical Collection
Whether you’re talking about succulents, ferns or flowers, there’s perhaps no better way to add character and style to a space than with some greenery. While we consider ourselves green thumbs, we’ll also be the…
The Couch Console Includes a Self-Balancing Cupholder
Outside of losing your Internet connection, there aren’t many things that can ruin a great gaming session or Netflix binge. That said, spilled drinks, a lack of snacks and missing remotes / controllers are definitely…
David Bowie Monopoly
In our minds, Monopoly ranks up there with Clue, Candy Land, Scrabble and Risk as one of the greatest board games of all time. As much as we love the game, rounding the board as…
Monopoly’s ‘Longest Game Ever’
Speaking from personal experience, Monopoly is is one of the greatest board games of all time–despite the fact it ruins relationships and seems to go on forever. Hasbro is doubling down on those features with…
Couchmaster Cycon Couch Gaming Desk
When it comes to gaming, if you want to maximize performance, reaction time, number of available games and upgradability, PC will always beat out even the most advanced, next-gen console. But we all still keep…
The $100,000 Jigsaw Puzzle
David Dobrik is one of those Internet celebrities best known for his ridiculous antics on YouTube, Vine and presumably some other platforms most of us old farts have never heard of. But now, his is…
LEGO Technic Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
Want to build a truck of your very own from the ground up without having to decade years and a significant amount of money to the project? Check out this upcoming LEGO Technic Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.…
The Shining Board Game
If you fancy creeping yourself out but maybe don’t want to watch the movie again, The Shining Board game notches things down a bit and turns horror into fun. The new board game will pull…
Theory11 James Bond 007 Playing Cards
When it comes to unique decks of playing cards that are actually affordable, there’s Theory11 and everyone else. The same goes for super spies and Bond, James Bond. Almost six decades after Bond first appeared…
LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1
We’ll always love the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie. And besides Slimer, the only character to really go the distance in the film series was the Ecto-1 Ghostbusters-mobile. LEGO pays homage to the tricked out 1959…
Kings Wild Project Haunted 8’s Playing Cards
Jack Robinson’s original Haunted 8’s playing cards have been revived with a design update that uses foil trim for an added measure of vintage creepiness, bordering on medieval. Each card gets a detailed design and…