On Easter weekend, the Queens Chapter of The Stacks headed to Newark to work with our partners at The Mission Continues — Newark for a service mission. The job for the day was to work on cleaning up and setting up the Ironbound Boxing Academy, which serves the local community. The Academy is built under the old Ironbound Stadium which, while closed since 1987, is being prepared for its own restoration. There was a lot of garbage piled in rooms underneath the stadium, which ha

The Schaumburg Chapter of The Stacks Meets Up with Twitch! By: Justin McDermott Another year down with the Chicago Twitch Crew and once again no disappointment despite the weather trying to cancel the event. This year the venue was upsized to accommodate more people and as you can tell from the photos looks like they need to start thinking about a convention center at this rate. I wanted to give a shout out to our booth partners at Second Life who helped us out by encouraging

The Sims Meets Minecraft in Community Inc.: First Alpha Out Now! T4 Interactive and tinyBuild have teamed up to create a delightful new game. The first alpha for Community Inc. shows that the scenic civilization-builder has potential, especially for hardcore fans of the genre. With hundreds of different factors to keep each play through challenging and unique, Community Inc. seems bound to keep you busy for months on end! You play as a manager for the company Community Inc.,

This past Saturday, Feb the 25th was the St. Louis Community Meetup Powered by Twitch organized by TheSilverFoxe (Kayla), and The Stacks were on hand to represent through our St Loius Stack! The event was held at a place called “The Edge” with theater, gaming, and laser tag arena. Arriving at the event early, I was greeted by TheSilverFoxe with a hug. From there on it was just an awesome time. Things started off with Laser Tag tournament and a raffle registration. Once things

When it comes to gaming, for most of us the game is only part of the experience. Those who play in the MMO or Multiplayer space know all too well the need to communicate with your friends. BAND is looking to create more than just a communications platform, they want to you take the group with you. Check out the video below as Chris “The Game Case” Case chats with Jordan from BAND about how they like to keep the party together. Thanks again Jordan for chatting with us. BAND of

Other times, one event is not enough and you need a stack of Stack-Up, and on April 16, 2016, the California Stacks are ready to deliver a stack of Stack-Up Stack events. They have tried to think of some clever names for this rally, like Stacktopia, Stackopolis, or Stackpril, but they were all pretty terrible — and were all created by CA Director, Bryan “Beardo” Parent, so blame him. Bet you want to know where all these cornucopias of Stack-Up goodness be taking place in Cali