Games Overboard

For those who don’t know, tonight from 8:30 to 9:30pm (local) is Earth Hour sponsored by the WWF.  To support Earth Hour you’re supposed to turn off as many electrical devices as possible in your home. We would like to suggest another option while your lights, television, and refrigerator are off.  Forget the XBox and Wii and [...]

While we’re not going to be able to make it to the Western Michigan Gamer’s Guild 15th annual convention, Marmalade Dog 15, this weekend, we wanted to shout out to all our friends and wish them a great weekend.  Let us know if you come across any new games we would be interested in. If [...]

I wanted to post a quick thank you to everyone who attended the Gaming for Haiti event this past Sunday.  We had a great crowd show up and raised over $450 for the cause.  Thanks to all the participants and organizers.  We hope to see each of you at another gaming event in the near [...]

I’ve never been very good at meeting new people.  I’m that guy who shows up to parties I’ve been invited to and sits with the people he already knows.  It takes me a long time to get comfortable around others, and even longer to start incorporating them into my friend groups. I usually only go [...]

One of the Games Overboard group’s favorite television shows is ABC’s Lost, and one of my personal favorite characters is Hurley.  He’s big and lovable, and always seems to say just the right thing for whatever situation he finds himself in. Not so surprisingly the actor who plays Hurley, Jorge Garcia, is one of my [...]