2022 came to a close with festivities and fun as we gathered around with friends and loved ones to celebrate the start of a new year. During that celebration, many of us grabbed our board games and cards and spent...
What we love about board games is how even the smallest ones can lead to larger-than-life emotions. From a tiny Jenga block leading to the whole room roaring in laughter to a roll of a Monopoly die leading to a...
As of December 7th, half of the 48 new courses for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had been released. If this is news to you and you’ve been rabidly playing the original Mario Kart 8 Deluxe courses since the game’s release...
In the last week alone, I got nostalgia-inducing video game updates like GoldenEye 007 coming to the Nintendo Switch and new Mario Kart tracks from versions I played a decade ago. Still, what’s been especially fun about this new era...
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...
