Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's regular column all about the latest in board game and tabletop releases—focusing on…
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I’m just going to come right out and say it: Urinating while standing is a terrible idea. It creates a host of messes…
When people think of The Thing, usually they first think of the 1982 John Carpenter film. But that film was based on…
The solution to few of life’s problems can be found at the bottom of a bottle, except, maybe, the poor sound quality…
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Until the Super Soaker came along in 1990, water guns hadn’t changed much in over a century. But the Super Soaker was…
The Brothers Chaps’ Homestar Runner cartoons are one of the few good things to ever come from this internet thing. It…
If your smartphone of choice has forced you to upgrade to wireless headphones, you probably hate having to swap them…
How many times has this happened to you? You’re trying to organize the destruction of a major metropolitan area and the…
Ossic, the company developing the Ossic X over-ear headphones designed primarily for virtual reality headsets, has…
61 years ago, the executives of Wham-O Inc. acquired the rights to a flying disk they called the Frisbee®. Now, the…
If you had the board game Fireball Island in the ‘80s, odds are you never forgot it. Not just because it was a wild…
Six major tech companies, joining the legal battle over net neutrality, announced plans on Monday to sue the Federal…
What began as one of the original Kickstarter success stories, Pebble quickly matured into one of the most beloved…
Kickstarter revealed the Amorphous Blob responsible for eating its old logo eight days ago. Eight! And hardly anybody…
You’ve seen samurai movies, you’ve seen puppet movies, and you’ve seen ghost stories. What happens when you mash the…
A pitch recently landed in my inbox that didn’t make a lot of sense. Some designers were working with Freitag, a Swiss…
When all digital spaces are controlled by liberal snowflakes, how’s a guy supposed to earn a living promoting hate…
Having lots of choice when it comes to consoles and platforms is great for gamers, but having piles of proprietary…
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