October 22nd – October 28th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Voting! VOTING! We love it, so do you! Did you know that you can VOTE MONDAY? That’s TOMORROW! You can vote and you will vote because you’re not awful, starting Monday. Check where you can go for Early Voting, which generally goes from about 8am to 4pm, and allows you the peace of […]

October 15th – October 21st

The Valley Nerd Watch! Register to Vote! Register to Vote! Register to VOTE! THEN VOTE FOR THE LOVE OF HELL! Vote yes on question 3! It’s incredibly important! Have you checked out the extremely neat Puzzled Escape Games [116 Pleasant St #141, Easthampton, MA 01027]? It’s a bunch of fun, and they have a new […]

September 17th – September 23rd

The Valley Nerd Watch! We’re moving at the moment and it’s late so the only thing we’re going to do here is say register to vote, vote in November and be sure to vote YES ON PROP 3! Be a part of the Blue Wave, make things a bit less awful next year. Go check […]

August 20th – August 26th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Ooooh you’d better have already registered to vote we swear to goodness. If not, it isn’t too late to get set for the November 6th election! Do it now, now! Other than that the big news is that we’ve been playing Dead Cells and it’s fun, so try Dead Cells! Also […]

November 27th – December 3rd

The Valley Nerd Watch! We finished Vacationland by John Hodgman, a former resident of Massachusetts who once met Black Francis. It was a collection of good essays, with more cairn-building stories than we had expected but fewer cairn-building stories than we had hoped. It’s always interesting reading how other people deal with death, because we […]

November 20th – 26th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We realized halfway into writing a thing about the boardgame Root that we probably shouldn’t put like a thousand words at the top of this thing so we’re going to write a bigger thing about it tomorrow! In the meantime we’d like to propose that you check out the newest surefire […]

October 9th – October 15th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We just finished the game Tales of Berseria, which was quite good! It had fun characters with whom we had a fun time, and it managed to sell a lot of the extremely emotionally charged moments that sometimes come across as forced in these sorts of stories. Plus you can […]

September 18th – September 24th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Lots going on this week! Of course the MOST important thing happening is that on October 23rd you will be able to attend the biggest event in the history of the Academy of Music: Nerd Nite at the Academy! It’ll feature two wonderful presenters discussing the most fantastic fringes of […]

June 12th – June 18th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We just moved! Our new place is very very good and we like it but what we don’t like is that all of our muscles and organs are now gone. They transubstantiated about 4 hours into the move and now we’re mostly composed of noodles and it’s just not working out […]

AEGIS: A Locally Developed Strategy Boardgame Kickstarter Success

Hello! Just letting you all know that a game we played and enjoyed which was developed by some local folks out in Worcester had a fine showing in a recent Kickstarter to which you can still contribute! There are eight more days to go and a few more stretch goals to unlock, like custom […]