A few weeks ago, we reviewed Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, a game centered around the strange satisfaction that only a truly high score can provide. Thus, when we found ourselves with an extra copy of the game to give away, we knew it had to go to the right person — a competitive, dedicated, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
On Friday, Valve updated the post on their Heavy Update page which listed the new achievements for everyone’s favorite minigun-wielding Team Fortress 2 class. This new update replaced all of the “Coming Soon” placeholders with actual descriptions of what the achievements would entail, thus drawing our speculation contest to a close. All told, roughly 50 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
UPDATE 8/15: Valve has published the full list of the Heavy’s Achievements, and our contest is now closed! Look for our analysis and winner announcement soon! Valve put up a list, this morning, of the 35 new achievements that will become available in next week’s Heavy Update. The official website lists only the names of the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 7, 2008
While you’re working on your entry for our latest giveaway, we thought we’d give you a little update on our previous contest. Last month, we awarded a reader by the name of Seaniccus a prize of 4000 Wii Points for his decidedly geeky entry in our Geeks & Otaku Giveaway. Seaniccus created a retro casemod for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 7, 2008
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Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
You may recall our hands-on preview of Reset Generation, the mysterious “Project White Rock” from Nokia which was unveiled to us back in May. Since then, the game’s been undergoing its final revisions and preparations, and is all set to launch in August. To kick off the nostalgia, Nokia has a few events underway which [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Time’s up, fellow geeks! It’s time to decide who deserves Wii Points in order to worry about their hard drive space, making you “geeks and otaku” just like Laurent Fischer said. In the last two weeks, we’ve gotten a handful of stories from a few of our more dedicated and worrisome readers, each trying to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
Don’t forget, folks — today is your last chance to win a handful of free Wii Points! In case you missed it, click on over to this post, where we invite you to share your finest “geeks and otaku” moment for a shot at glory/infamy and a chance to win a mess of Wii Points [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 27, 2008
When you think of next-generation gaming, with stunningly realistic visuals that need to be displayed in a high-definition format, you think of writing numbers in a grid. I know I’m certainly not the only consumer who, upon setting up my big new HDTV, thought, “Man. I can’t wait to see how bad-ass it looks when [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
As a gamer with an unusual affinity for the independent developer, I’m always glad to report on new offerings from the indie community — and opportunities for the same. The good folks over at GameSetWatch have the details on a special showcase being held by the Independent Games Festival at the upcoming Austin Game Developers Conference, [...]
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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