Happy Monday, Geekly Gang! We're bringing back the Geekly Casting series, and today's subject is a live-action Mega Man film. There were talks about a Netflix Mega Man film, but we haven't heard much about this project since late 2021. A lot has changed since then. Mega Man even had an episode in Amazon Prime's Secret Level series, a television series based on random video games. But the Blue Bomber deserves a big screen adaptation. Kyra Kyle here. As usual, I'll start this post and share modern actors who could play the various roles, and Skye, our movie geek, will search Hollywood's past and present for the best possible actors to play each role.

Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here with another Top 5 Tabletop Games throughout the years. 1998 saw the continued dominance of collectible card games (CCGs). Fewer CCGs were released this year, but established ones kept board game stores afloat. 1998 had a lot of great board games, but many of them didn’t have the same staying power as previous years in this series. There may be more than one forgotten gem on today’s list. We’ll get to the games in a minute, but first, let’s look at our criteria.

Happy Friday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here with another board game design brain dump. I'm taking a break from Rustbucket Riots--which I covered in last month's brain dump--and discuss a Blackjack Deck Building game I originally made in 2018. Seven years! Yikes! Guess I got the seven-year itch. This Blackjack Deck Builder has gone through multiple minor rule modifications and name changes. The deck, based on a standard playing card deck, doesn't have jacks and kings, so it's had the name No Jack and No Kings.

Happy Wednesday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. Today, our writers share what they've been watching over the past month. You're welcome to join the fun and share what you've been watching, Geekly Gang. I'll get us started with the movies I watched. Kyra's Movies All our geekly writers watched the two movies I'll be discussing. I'd like to see what Season and Skye have to say about each of these films. In short, Weapons had too many point-of-view (POV) characters. If you're like me and you thought Weapons started strong, dragged in the middle, and found its footing at the end, that's because the movie had too many POVs.

Happy Sunday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. I'm still on a pseudo-hiatus with Novel in November. I just shared a writing update a couple days ago, but this means that Geek News will mostly be video game and board game new releases. Let's begin with board game new releases. Exactly as Planned Sneaks Onto GameFound I love it when a publisher/designer allows players to demo their game. Exactly As Planned offers a solo, cake-walk heist to whet gamers' whistles. You can play the game by checking out Exactly As Planned's…

Happy Spooky Season, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here, and while Ratropolis doesn't exactly fit the horror aesthetic for this month's theme, it is an interesting blend of deck building, tower defense, and real-time strategy. That's right, it's time for another quirky video game review. Relatively new, Korean video game design group, Cassel Games, combines so many disparate themes and mechanisms that they couldn't possibly work together. Could they? Let's put Ratropolis against our video game review criteria. Game Mechanisms: 9/10 Ratropolis does manage to merge its separate parts into a cohesive whole, but I don't imagine players unfamiliar with deck building to fare well.

Happy Friday, Geekly Gang! I haven't shared a Writing Brain Dump in a month. Today looks like a good day for a Writing Brain Dump. I'm about halfway through my most recent edit for Rustbucket Riots (working title). And the biggest step I made was reformating the story's arc. The Three-Act Structure May Need Tweaking for a Novel I found Julian Maylett's YouTube channel a short while ago. Maylett has a great AuthorTube channel, and I like his six-pillar structure. But I adapted this structure so it works better for me.

Happy Wednesday, Geekly Gang! Today, our writers share what they've been reading over the past month. Feel free to share what you've been reading, because you're part of the Geekly Gang, too. I'll start our monthly reading post. Kyra's Comics I reread a favorite graphic novel this past month, Dick Tracy: The Complete True Hearts and Tommy Guns Trilogy. Dick Tracy is a classic 90s graphic novel. The 1990 Dick Tracy film could've been so much better had Warren Beatty decided to start with the first of these three stories.

Hey, hey, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. We've tackled the idea of cartoons or animated series based off comic books almost a decade ago with a Top 5 Animated TV Shows Based Off Comic Books. It's a good idea to update this post. Our reasoning is three-fold: 1, it's been long enough and more shows have been produced since 2015; we increased the number of shows on this list from five to ten; and Geekly forgot about a few shows inspired by comic books in the previous list. Whoops! Before we get into the shows, let's set down some ground rules for this list.

Happy Sunday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here. I'm still on my pseudo-hiatus for the Novel in November event, so this week's Geek News will include board games and video games that released this past week. Let's start this week's Geek News with board game new releases. Employee Disposal Program Launches on KickStarter Who needs political correctness? Employee Disposal Program--awesome name by the way--offers a light, party game, which pokes fun at a corporation's HR Department. Players begin with two sanity and five action cards. A player's sanity is their health and once a player loses all their sanity, they're eliminated from the game.

You’ll want to shed your hand of cards quicker than anyone else in L.L.A.M.A. The Card Game, but you might not be able to play what you want. Strategic quitting, which freezes the cards in your hand, may be the key to victory in this silly, engaging (German Game of the Year) Spiel des Jahres-nominated game. Don’t get stuck with a llama! Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. I mentioned L.L.A.M.A. The Card Game in a previous Whatcha Playing post and figured we should cover the game with a full review.

Happy Sunday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here with another month of Whatcha Playing. Our writers will be sharing what they've been playing--board games and video games--over the past month. Feel free to share what you've been playing over the past month, because you're part of the Geekly Gang, too. I'll start by sharing my month's games. Kyra's Video Games I mentioned Slime Rancher 2 a couple of months ago, during one of these lists, but I finally finished the game this past month. In fact, I picked up Slime Rancher 2's…

Terra Nil flips the city/civilization builder on its head. The world has been sapped of its resources, and it's up to the player to return the world to its former lush landscapes, complete with wildlife, and then leave without a trace, allowing life to begin anew. Can you bring the world back to life Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. Today's cozy video game is Terra Nil. I wish listed this one on Steam when its demo dropped, and then forgot about it. It wasn't until Terra Nil popped up on Netflix, of all places, that I tried the full game.

Happy Sunday, Geekly Gang! Kyra Kyle here, and I'm in the middle of some major edits and rewrites with my work in progress--more on that in the coming weeks--so I won't have as much time to cover Geek News topics like previous months. But we still have some new board game and video game releases to discuss. I'll try to be brief. Let's begin with board game new releases. Punch Bowl Splashes onto KickStarter Punch Bowl looks amazing. It's won multiple awards, featuring giant fruits that players must turn into giant punch.