July 30th – August 5th

The Valley Nerd Watch! It’s another wonderful week in the Valley! We just got our copy of Root! It’s a game that local Editor Extraordinaire Joshua Yearsley worked on and which was brought in alpha form to Wednesday Games last year. One play-through was enough to convince us that it was neat as hell and […]

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July 23rd – 29th

  The Valley Nerd Watch! Check out the new fun thing in the hottest town in the Valley, Easthampton! It’s Prodigy, a mini-golf/games place open Wed – Sun for folks 13 and up, 13-15 accompanied by parents! There’s kind of a long story there but basically it’s got a complex mini-golf course handmade by a […]

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July 16th – July 22nd

The Valley Nerd Watch! Into the Breach is really, really good. Spectacular, even. Give it a shot if you’re at all interested in games in which you move around robots on a map and try to destroy gigantic bugs! It’s fun in part because so much of it is just like improvising a solution to a push-pull […]

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July 9th – July 15th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We had a bunch of fun walking around doing the Pokemon Go community day! It’s weird to be playing something that we didn’t touch for like a year and a half but it’s a neat excuse for a walk. Also we got cute Squirtles with sunglasses! Can’t say no to that. […]

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July 2nd – July 8th

The Valley Nerd Watch! The Families Belong Together event in Springfield yesterday was impressive and inspiring. The speakers included people who had lost family or loved ones for a variety of reasons, and who encouraged the crowd to do what needed to be done to keep families together not just at the border but in […]

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