Looking up what to pack for your next camping trip? Thinking about what to bring for your camping digital detox? With Labor Day coming up and plenty of comfortable weekends left in the year, there are plenty of opportunities left...
Game nights are a delightful reason to have friends come pack into an apartment and unpack a game together. During the warmer months, though, that same fun night inside playing Dungeons & Dragons can feel like descending into some dragon’s...
Summer is a time of great weather, less intense work, and vacations. In theory, at least! So why would we start a blog post asking about what video games are great for the summer? Because summer in practice is quite...
Here at Antsy Labs, we consider ourselves decently knowledgeable about the tabletop gaming space. We’ve had some luck (thanks to all of you!) producing a few games (like Storm the Gate and Fidget Factory) and also commemorating some of our...
When you ask how much money people get paid to play video games, you might not like the answer. According to eSports Grizzly, the salary alone for pro esports athletes can range from $50,000 - $75,000. That doesn’t even start...
When it comes to tabletop games, we love to bring in friends for long nights of gaming, a buffet of snacks, and a range of expletives and shouts of triumphs. And when it comes to date night, we’re normally focused...
If there’s one thing gamers like to do, it’s play by the rules. After all, rulebooks may be the only thing separating us from the ruthless, savage, power-hungry animal kingdom. (Unless you’ve ever played Risk, in which case you know...
It is one of gaming’s age-old questions: which came first, the bar or the arcade? The arcade - or the bar? For those of us who grew up with video games, we were playing Time Crisis long before we could...
Playing video games isn’t necessarily the cheapest pastime. With the exception of bygone days of quarters and arcades, consoles will set you back more than a pretty penny. A PS5? That’s $500. The XBOX X? That’s $500. The Switch OLED?...
For fans of the classic 4X genre, the games keep getting better. With plenty of compelling titles available virtually (like the brief Games Radar article about the 20 best 4X games for building your digital empire) and in real life...
For anyone who’s ever dabbled in video game nostalgia, there’s never been a better time to go after your old favorites. Sometimes, it’s nice to enjoy something classic. Classic books. Classic movies. Classic video games. (And no, to all you...
Modern day culture comes at us fast and furious (almost as fast and furious as Fast and Furious movie sequels). With new phones, new apps for those phones, and new ways to communicate between phones, it feels like we’re ever...
