It was a dark and stormy night. Nine months had passed in a blur and yet, somehow, at the same time they crept by like a snail on Quaaludes. Impossibly fast – the baby can’t come now! And also . . . the longest nine months of my life. How was this possible? Do babies warp the space time continuum? more…

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by Mike Anderson

This is an older article salvaged from the old GamerDad.com

Who better for a new holiday than the famed gaming duo?January 7th was Mario & Luigi Day in our house. It was also take down the Christmas decorations’ day, but that was a mere sideline to the real show.

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Hey there GamerDads! Father’s Day is fast approaching and I’m doing a special feature for WhatTheyPlay about it. What I need from you is a sweet POSITIVE short story – short story – short. Story. – shortstory – about YOU playing a GAME with your SON or DAUGHTER.  200 words MAX please. That’s two hundred, 200, 2 hundred, two hunnert, words, only.  Cool?  You have until Wednesday evening. The best 5 or so will appear at WhatTheyPlay.com, the next best five or so will appear here in an additional article. Good luck and remember, 200 words, about you and your kid and a game, by Wed night!  Email me here (PS: be sure to include a name you’d like me to use. Can be your real name, can be a false one, can’t be profane.) (PPS: People who work for GamingwithChildren, Gamerdad, or WhatTheyPlay, are welcome to participate.)

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This week on Ask GamerDad we’ve got more questions on why one particular licensed game might not suck, about the elusive and some say mythological AO rating, and of course a question about Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.  Vice City?!?

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What if you woke up one day and found out you were a Pokemon? Well that’s just what happens in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Take a quiz to find out which Pokemon you’ll be, then team up with a Pokemon buddy who can communicate with you, now that you’re one of them. Together you both decide to form a rescue team to save Pokemon who are in danger.

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It’s here! After nearly a year-long media blitz, the complete 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons releases today. Gamers itching to try out the new version of this classic (paper and pencil) RPG can get all three books at their local store.

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The “Hot Coffee” and GTA: SA news story has bubbled and boiled over and finally, with some help from a newspaper reporter, GamerDad comments on it.

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Late in 2005 some friends at RPGDot came to me with the idea to do summary articles on the state on RPG gaming on the major handhelds.  The release of the DS and particularly the PSP had intrigued many RPG fans who were not interested in consoles (wait, that sounds like me!), and so I put together three articles – one for the GBA, one for the DS and the last one for the PSP.  The articles were very well received and when RPGWatch launched late in 2006, I was asked to update the state of handheld RPG’s once more.  That is how ‘The Whole Game in My Hand’ was born.

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The City is Beautiful. Glad You’re Not Here.

Where’ve I been? Where do you think? Liberty City. Ah… Liberty City. It’s sort of an “adult” vacation spot. Not a place to bring the kids. In fact, this sprawling metropolis is bereft of children or teenagers. That’s a good thing. Because there are a thousand stories in the naked city and all of them are M-Mature. It’s time to come home and I hate to admit it. . . I’ll miss these mean streets. I’ll miss my terrifying breakneck speeding through the Booth tunnel. Buzzing the top of the Statue of Happiness with a stolen heli-tour copter. Cranking up Vladivostock radio, digging some Reggae, or tuning in to the incomparable Lazlo to help drown out the gunfire, screams, and constantly whining police sirens. more…

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 In 2003 – that’s pre-GamerDad.com folks – I wrote this peice for publication at a website that sadly went out of business. The rights came back to me and I used it as part of the foundation at GamerDad. Shows you where my mind was at before all of this stuff began.

by Andrew S. Bub

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