There is a time in a child’s life that is, for want of a better word, magical. That handful of years when they’re old enough to have their own ideas and motivations, but not yet so old that they’re too cool to hang out with their parents. It’s an age that Neil Patrick Harris has …

We’ve been following the results of this season’s Asia’s Got Talent pretty closely here because not one, but two magicians have made it into the Grand Finals: Syrian close-up magician Sobhi Shaker and Indonesian horror illusionist the Sacred Riana. While we wait for the results to come on the season finale on December 14, Asia’s …

Right at the end of the video above, scrolling at an incredible speed, are the results of FISM 2018. Thankfully, I was on hand with some high end journalistic tools – the print screen button and abundance of free time – to transcribe the winners of the biggest magic competition of the year into regular, non-moving …

For all the time spent perfecting tricks and developing a persona, many magicians don’t invest the same energy in treating their craft as a business. If you want to make magic your career, then it’s time to readjust your thinking. Marketing isn’t a bad thing to do, and it doesn’t have to be smarmy or …

If our complete run-down of everything that happened at The Academy of Magical Arts’ 50th Anniversary Awards Show is a bit too long for you and you just want to know won the shiny things, this is the article for you. Masters Fellowship and Magician of the Decade: David Copperfield  The big winner of the night was magic …

Before Sobhi Shaker escaped to Malaysia, he spent his nightly curfews in Syria playing card games and teaching himself tricks from videos he found on the internet. Now he wants to make a name for himself and his country, and has arrived on Asia’s Got Talent to prove himself. To do so, he brought along …

Most people wish that every day could be Christmas, but here at GeniiOnline, we’re more partial to the spookiness and spectacle of Halloween. So it was a happy discovery to find that illusionist Bizzaro had shared a video of his performance of Franken-Snacks at the Magic Castle this year on that most sugar-driven of holidays. …

Finally, James Galea asks the question we all need the answer to: Why are magicians so weird? Blake Vogt comes up with a pretty good answer in the below clip from Galea’s show Best Trick Ever.  Vogt makes some really great points. Magic requires a massive amount of dedication to be able to do even …

UPDATE (2/9/2018): Welp, hope you got your order in because these cards are officially all sold out.  Original story:  Richard Valentine Pitchford, aka The Great Cardini, is a legend of close-up magic and sleight of hand. Now, you can own a part of his legacy with this limited edition reprint of his iconic “Peau Doux” …

UPDATE (4/5/2018): While savvy Google Play users have had access to the soft-launch for a few months now, the rest of the world will finally gain access to the hallowed halls of Hogwarts when Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery finally launches on iOS and Android devices on April 15, according to VentureBeat. Read below for full details …