Welcome back to our reading diaries! Once a month the WWAC crew chats about their reading lives. This month we’re reading YA, romance and post-apocalyptic everything. Sarah: I can not look at my to-read pile without feeling guilty. And that doesn’t count the stuff on my Kindle, nicely tucked away so I can’t see the…
Kickstarter of the Week: Video Game Coasters
Melding his love of games and his woodworking skills, Hunter Montgomery wants to create pixelated video game coasters for video game fans everywhere. The Video Games Coasters Kickstarter aims to bring four of Hunter’s designs to life using various hardwoods to achieve the different colors. That’s right, he’s not staining them; he’s using the natural color…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Bruce Lee: Enter the Game Alert, alert! I need this game! Somehow I missed it during my Thanksgiving weekend food coma, but 2 million downloads can’t be wrong. Downloading it right… NOW. Arcade-style Bruce Lee action is available on iOS and Android devices. Thank goodness! Joe Kowalski’s Impossible Games He was asked to participate in…
Bisexual Characters We Have Loved
Character: David Alleyne aka Prodigy Young Avengers Volume 2 Marvel So a lot of people might not know much about David Alleyne, he played a moderately important part in various X-men storylines, specifically as a member of the New Mutants and the New X-men. David’s mutant powers consisted of the ability to telepathically absorb the…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Some weeks I feel like the Rolling Stone magazine With Us, Against Us Threat Assessment. Take some time to catch up on this week’s news, then cheer up with something fun, like Color Sheep. Barbie can be a game designer, but not a game developer Last week’s fun was over the 2010 children’s book,…
Kickstarter of the Week: Mama Calendar
The new year is right around the corner and you need a new calendar. Take a peek at the farthest thing from that commercial mall kiosk with the Mama Calendar: a calendar about and for progressive, feminist, activist mothers and their families, friends, and allies everywhere. Coleen Murphy’s Kickstarter for Mama Calendar: 2015 Edition aims to get this year’s edition…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
It’s been a crazy busy week here, mainly due to the mad scramble that is obtaining PAX East tickets, but never fear, here’s your games news round up in case you missed it. Explore Alaska Native Stories with Never Alone Playing as a Nuna and Fox, Never Alone is an atmospheric puzzle that explores the…
Kickstarter of the Week: Words Are Power
In 1946, you return from the front as an established war correspondent. Something fishy is happening in Washington D.C. and you intend to get to the bottom of it. You didn’t think getting to the truth would be easy with so many powerful people involved, but what you hadn’t expected was is that most obstacles…
Support the Arts: Lord of the Rings with Orchestra
For those who like a splash of culture to go with your fantasy loving selves, the Symphony Silicon Valley will be presenting all three Lord of the Rings (LOTR) movies in high definition accompanied by a symphony orchestra in April 2015. According to their site, the trilogy experience is being offered for the first time…
MICE 2014: Expectations Exceeded
The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) ran from October 4 and 5, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s been a free annual event since 2010 as a joint effort between the Boston Comics Roundtable and Lesley University College of Art and Design to create a showcase for artists and creators working in comics in the greater…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
First details out on Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series Yesterday, Telltale Games released details of the Game of Thrones games that’s in the works for PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and iOS. As an interesting twist, players will play from the perspective of five different characters connected to one house…
Over $70,000 raised for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) and Diamond Comics Distributors is happy to announce to this year’s membership and fundraising drive resulted in over 44o comic book specialty shops joining or renewing their memberships, raising over $70,000 to the cause. According to the Diamond’s press release, “Since the Retailer Membership program was launched in 2009, the number of…