I really love when laser tag is the vehicle for doing something good to make a positive difference in the community. That’s why I decided to make a road trip down to Bullseye Laser Tag in Woodbridge, NJ to participate in their charity laser tag tournament in support of the Hearts and Hands toy drive to benefit the local Department of Child Permanency and Protection. For this tactical tournament, the only registration requested was for players to bring toys to donate to this c

Big thanks to RePlay Magazine for including our Tag 4 A Cause event to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation in their November issue. We held this fundraiser during the September regional draft tournament at Skyway Laser Storm. The Epilepsy Foundation also recently shared the news in the fall/winter edition of their community magazine called Foundation Quarterly! You can read about it on page 22 and 23 here… https://www.epilepsy.com/sites/default/files/2025-11/foundation-quarterly-

It’s Museum Collection Monday and today’s feature is a bit of photo trivia. Does anyone recognize what these are? 😉 Answer: These are the fins from around a Q-Zar base. For more laser tag history visit LaserTagMuseum.com . Comments or Questions?  Contact: Tivia@tiviachickloveslasertag.com   Websites: www.tiviachickloveslasertag.com and www.photonforever.com and http://www.lasertagmuseum.com

On this week’s episode of Laser Unfocused Tag Talk we get to hear all about the latest in laser tag directly from the manufacturers themselves who were exhibiting their newest laser tag innovations during the recent IAAPA Expo in Orlando, FL. ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xzXT3aqGa2edIlXpcaJBS ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laser-unfocused-tag-talk-with-tivia/id1632442213 ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DOiCjjNkJzM?si=A9qkQraX3lpjaeZt Comme

Battle Company brought more than just their new laser tag equipment to this year’s IAAPA Expo and I was excited to see just what exactly was hiding behind this wall! I noticed my friend, laser tag operator Marc Mueller, visiting at the booth and checking out some of the newest equipment that Battle Company had to share this year, including the updated Titan phaser and the circular Nova tagger. They were showcasing these two new laser tag products along with a new neckband sen

Soaking up some sun while in Orlando was definitely good. Playing some laser tag while I did so was even better! That’s what I experienced when I got to play an impromptu outdoor game of tag with the team from LaserMaxx while visiting their booth during IAAPA, where the sun was always shining! This was a great opportunity to learn more about this system, which is growing its presence in North America with locations having opened on both coasts, many of which I have visited du

There was a Fusion of cool elements going on over at the Laserforce booth at IAAPA this year and I was looking forward to seeing exactly what they were bringing to the party. Look ma, no vest! The Fusion vestless phaser was the new product that Laserforce had to share, with plenty of excitement on the heels of being named a brass ring finalist for this new phaser debut. Rohan Kelly, Director of Laserforce Australia, shared that the name Fusion comes from all the features of G

I have visited the Gel Blaster Nexus booth every year since they debuted their product at IAAPA in 2023 and this year I had a chance to see how much progress they have made in that short time with the release of their new Gen 2 system. In actuality, I had already experienced a real world game with the Gen 2 gear just prior to my trip to Florida at one of the very earliest locations where it was installed in advance of the show, so I went in with a few first-hand questions tha

It’s not often that I find myself in the company of two brothers who have been part of the laser tag industry since nearly the very beginning, but I was delighted have a moment with both Jim and Steve Kessler when I visited the LASERTRON booth during IAAPA. As I am from upstate New York, I am no stranger to their longstanding company laser tag centers in Buffalo and Rochester, but I always appreciate a chance to catch up with Jim and learn about his thoughts on the future of

It sure “sounds” like something new is happening with Helios 3 over at the Zone booth this year! I mean that literally, as the sounds of the pack are a bit different now that Zone has incorporated a new AI self-help feature along with some cool new audio themes as part of the Helios 3 system. This is a clever way of helping a player along during the game with nudges about what they must do to complete the game objectives. The pack can let you know if you are near a base, if y