Hasbro and Mensa Team Up To Use Classic Family Board Games in Free Lesson Plans!

Hasbro and Mensa for Kids have teamed up to take some longtime family favorite board games and turn them into learning tools. Anyone who has read Engaged Family Gaming for a long time knows that we strongly feel that every game has educational value when used correctly, but this partnership takes that belief and puts […]
D & D Beyond – Taking Your Game to the Next Level

D&D Beyond at first glance is a collection of online gaming tools for Dungeons and Dragons 5.0, but the ease of use and friendly interface makes it more than the sum of its parts. D&D Beyond is an evolution of previous tools released by Wizards of the Coast for D&D 4.0 and improves on its […]
Restoration Games – Because Every Game Deserves Another Turn

Board games are going through a renaissance right now. It may appear to the casual observer that hobbyist games are a new phenomenon, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Talented designers have been designing and publishing games that can stand up to some of the best the modern board gaming world has to […]
Teachable Moments – PewDiePie, That Word, and Bad Influencers

Yesterday, Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, used a racial slur while streaming a game of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG as it is often called). The internet and even one independent developer are taking PDP to task (and rightfully so) for his use of the N-word. But, it appears that many of his fans have come to […]
Nintendo Miiverse to End In November

Nintendo has announced the Wii U and 3DS focused social media platform, Miiverse, will cease operations on November 7th, 2017 at 10 am PST. The service was designed to allow players to interact with each other and share content relating to games on the platforms. Players could draw pictures on their Wii U gamepad or on […]
Restoration Games is Bringing the Heat With Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar!

Restoration Games has been in business for about a year now. Their mission is to find old games that had a spark of greatness, but were held back by the state of the board game industry. They had announced three projects so far, until Gen Con 2017. They came out at the Dice Tower panel […]
Family Board Game Review: Rampaging Jotunn

Rampaging Jotunn is a 2 player viking themed game by Lost Cog with a hex board made of large tiles. The object of the game is to avoid the Jotunn (a magically strong giant from Viking mythology), and protect your village using your army. The Jotunn is a constant variable in the game. The […]
Episode 98: Special Guest Eric Rogers, The Showrunner for Skylanders Academy

This week Stephen has a fireside chat with Eric Rogers the showrunner of Skylanders Academy and the voice of Crash Bandicoot (in the series)!!! melanotan Bodybuilding Motivation – acheter dianabol en france Pain is Temporary
Monopoly Gamer: Mario Passes Go, Collects All the Coins

By: Stephen Haberman, TheGeekyHusband If I were to guess how many coins I collected in video games over my lifetime, I would bet I’d be the Warren Buffet of in-game currencies. When it comes to Monopoly however, I find it difficult to pronounce myself as anything more than an average property connoisseur. I have played […]
The Mouse from Moss Is Learning ASL (And Everyone Loves it!)

Richard Lico, the lead animator for Moss, has revealed on Twitter that he is teaching his little mouse friend ASL as part of the upcoming PSVR game Moss. Ok. I suppose “Teach” is a strong word, but he is using ASL when animating the mouse. We already raved about this one when we got a chance to […]