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Geek culture.
Worth revisiting.
Rediscover the games, stories and conversations that stayed with us. Explore the Geekenstein archive through sourced editions that keep the original voices in view.
A good place to start
Five guides. A useful next step.
Plan a game night
Find your next card game
Compare prepared decks, building during play, a draft pool and a digital table. Use the session worksheet to agree on your first evening.
Plan your sessionIdentify a printing
Pokémon: games to cards
Revisit Charizard, Ruby and Sapphire, then identify the card in front of you. Keep a game memory separate from a printing’s details.
Follow the Pokémon pathInspect a collection
Collect with a clear plan
Figures, digital cards and licensed board games. Record the exact edition, the contents and the evidence you still need.
Use the collecting checklistRead deck history
Make sense of old Magic advice
Find the idea behind an old deck list, separate its historical format from today’s rules, and choose a question to test.
Read the deck checklistCompare digital and physical
What does a digital card do?
Steam badge sets, playable Hearthstone cards and physical printings serve different purposes. Begin with the collection you want.
Compare the systemsCard games
At the table, across generations.
From the archive · Magic: The Gathering
Sorin vs. Tibalt
Two planeswalkers. Two factory decks. Revisit Jake Petersen’s historical verdict and both complete 60-card lists.
Explore the decksOriginal coverage · Jake Petersen
A Beginner’s Guide to Magic: The Gathering
Start with mana, spells and creatures. Revisit Jake Petersen’s introduction, then continue with a current first-game lesson at KLXCards.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Jake Petersen
Star Realms Preview
A shared trade row, four factions and a deck that changes as you play. Return to Jake Petersen’s early introduction to Star Realms.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Christian Mincks
Tabletop Simulator: Christian Mincks’ 2014 Preview
A skeptical start became a better evening with a friend. Christian Mincks’ 2014 preview explores the social promise of a digital tabletop.
Read the archive editionGames
Big ideas, small studios, memorable worlds.
Original coverage · David Rhinehart
Borderlands 2
Pandora’s weapons, characters and cooperative chaos. David Rhinehart’s PlayStation 3 review looks at what the sequel added—and where it stumbled.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Christian Mincks
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
An octopus, a family and wonderfully awkward chores. Christian Mincks considers the comedy and control quirks of Dadliest Catch.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Alex Cabral
Jungle Rumble
Tap to the beat, plan a route and keep the monkeys together. Alex Cabral weighs an inventive rhythm puzzle against its musical and technical limits.
Read the archive editionFilm, television & anime
Stories from the screen.
Original coverage · Curtis Stone
The Garden of Words
Rain, quiet conversations and striking animation. Curtis Stone revisits the intimacy and emotional detail of Makoto Shinkai’s short feature.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Curtis Stone
You Should Be Watching Hunter x Hunter: Part 1 Revisited
Begin with Gon and the Hunter Exam. Curtis Stone’s opening recommendation examines the 2011 adaptation’s tactical action and early characters.
Read the archive editionOriginal coverage · Dustin Triplett
Birth of the Living Dead
How one independent film changed horror. Dustin Triplett considers the documentary behind Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
Read the archive editionA practical guide
Catch a film before opening night.
Find local advance screenings, set alerts and understand what a pass does—and does not—guarantee.
History with its context intact.
These editions are newly written, condensed accounts of verified Geekenstein coverage. They identify the original writer, the verified date where available, their sources and what is missing. They do not reproduce the full original articles or claim new firsthand reviews.
Geekenstein is under new ownership and is being rebuilt as a companion to KLXCards while preserving its wider games and entertainment history. Former writers are not represented as participants in or endorsers of this edition. About the project, attribution and corrections.