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  • Dino Run: Free Flash Games Review

    Finding free flash games that are equal parts awesome, fun, and time-consuming is tough. Luckily, Geek Insider is here to help you find the best, the funny, and the so-bad-it’s-awesome games of the internet. With that, let’s check out: Dino Run Where Can It Be Found This game can be found on Pixeljam’s website. What…

  • 5 Books That Have Amazing Potential to Be Video Games

    Games like The Walking Dead and The Last of Us remind us that the power a great narrative can take a video game to the next level. Video games have a lot to gain from literature. Authors create ideas that have the potential inspire compelling games. These video games don’t have to follow the same plot of the…

  • December Movie Preview: A Late Start on the Holiday Movie Season

    Don’t let the title of this post fool you, when I say holiday movie season, I mean big studio blockbusters and critically acclaimed titles that may appear on the award show ballots. As for actual holiday themed movies, there are none. Not one single Christmas cartoon or rom-com will reach a wide audience this year….

  • Why JJ Abrams Just Might Ruin Star Wars

    There are three types of people in this world: Star Wars people, Star Trek people, and those who love both. JJ Abrams will soon be added to the third category as he teams up with Disney to direct the long awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This new installment has a lot to live up to;…

  • Top 10 Tips For Your Backpacking Trip Across Europe

    Deciding to drop everything and travel across a foreign continent or two for a few months can be a momentous planning challenge but it doesn’t have to be scary. Follow these top 10 tips for your backpacking trip from a fellow traveller who spent two months travelling across Europe and be well on your way…

  • Future Vision: The Spaceglasses!

    Like a true science fiction movie, a 50 man team has been working day and night in order to create some of the most futuristic technology the world has ever seen, although they don’t plan to use it to take over the world. Probably. But, you know, science gonna science, so anything’s possible. Meta’s Breakthrough…

  • 5 Sci-Fi Gadgets We Wish Were Real

    You locked your keys in your car. You have a mountain of dishes to clean. You’re stuck in awful traffic. Your coffee table broke and all of your drinks spilled and now your dog is tracking them all over the house. With all of life’s everyday frustrations, there are times where you really want some…

  • Lara Croft’s Five Most Memorable Outfits

    She runs, she shoots, she dives she saves the world—and through it all, she always manages to look fly! Over the years, Tomb Raider star Lara Croft has donned some pretty (and pretty interesting) outfits—but when you’re as rockin’ as this popular game heroine, you could go out (or swing out?) in your Pjs and…

  • Win It! Custom ‘The Walking Dead’ T-shirt Giveaway – Courtesy of Tshirtonomy

    Win It! One of three Custom ‘The Walking Dead’ T-shirts from Tshirtonomy! Use the Rafflecopter Widget below to enter to win one of three ‘The Walking Dead’ custom tees. a Rafflecopter giveaway OFFICIAL RULES Geek Insider reserves the right to substitute similar prizes of equal or greater value in the event the above prize is unavailable…

  • What Today’s Gaming Companies Can Learn From Older Games

    As new video games are announced and released, the producers and designers usually talk about how their game redesigns this or redefines that. However isn’t there that saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Sometimes games don’t have to redefine anything. There have been multiple games that people have labeled as classics, games that…

  • A Tribute to the Best Supporting Characters in Gaming

    We’re all familiar with tributes to our favorite heroes or villains, soundtracks or storylines, tragedies or comedies, etc. From games to films (yes, this is another gaming article, deal with it), we gravitate toward those who like and revel in despising those we don’t. And these games and their aspects leave lasting impressions. People today still…

  • Top 5 Superhero Costumes That Stand the Test of Time

    Some superheroes change their costumes often, while others have costumes that stand the test of time and become iconic in and of themselves. Here are the top five superhero costumes that stand the test of time. (Note: slight cosmetic changes to costumes–like removing trunks or using a different shade of a color–will not be considered…

  • Gun Technology: Weapons Of Mass… Protection?

    As technology hurtles us closer and closer to that Elysium/Star Wars/Terminator/Matrix future (yes, in that order), it also revolutionizes the world as we know it. Personally, I’m looking to having laser guns, and not the kind you use in laser tag (well, sort of like that, I guess) and blasters that go pew pew when…

  • Playing Video Games In Class: Does It Count As Curriculum?

    “This guy keeps trying to kill me, and I don’t have a weapon.” – Britt Clifford, 23. Well, talk about a first world problem. No, it’s a not a 13-year old raging at his killstreak being cut off right before he could call in an airstrike in Call of Duty. Clifford’s avatar, the Debuante, was…

  • Top 5 “Relatable” Super-Heroes (Who Aren’t That Relatable)

    In our modern world, one of the most misused words regarding super-heroes is “relatable.” “Relatable” super-heroes are often confused with plausibility or realism and heroes often claimed to be relatable sometimes don’t live up to that mantle when examined more closely. For the purposes of this column, “relatable” is a trait that most readers would…