Richard Mallory: Today I have the pleasure of speaking with an established member of the gaming community; particularly within the fighting scene. Among his credentials, he’s a tournament organizer for EVO, a commentator of Street Fighter X Tekken at Capcom Cup 2013 and Final Round 17, has been playing fighting games semi-professionally for over ten…
AMC continues to bring harrowing dramas set as period pieces. Their latest is Halt and Catch Fire, a fictional take on the personal computer boom of the 1980’s. Why watch? Think Steve Jobs mixed with Jordan Belfort and you might be right at home here. Here’s our latest look at the series. Looking good in front…
Five Teenagers in an Apocalypse The Poison Princess, book one of the Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole, is a dark story of survival in a world that has suffered through the apocalypse. Grim situations, insanity, and people empowered by the Major Arcana tarot cards abound in this series. The series focuses on a small group of…
Summer is coming. It doesn’t really have the same dramatic effect, does it? Oh, well. Although, technically speaking, summer is already here. The sun is hot, the sand is warm, the scent of barbeque drifts through the air, and nature is calling for us to journey outside. It’s a beautiful time. To play video games….
Alpha has come and gone… Well the Alpha version of Bungie’s Destiny on the PS$ has now officially closed. Safe to say even in its Alpha form, Destiny is quite the spectacle. I was lucky enough to be able to get access to it and it was a lot of fun! I was interested interested in…
Introduction Recently, Sony unveiled a rough idea—or at least we hope—of what the pricing could potentially be for their upcoming Playstation Now service. Yet before going any further, for those of you who may not be in touch or simply don’t know what Playstation Now is, allow me to explain. What Is Playstation Now? Playstation…
It appears that we may finally be making a sliver of progress on the issue of online/digital privacy. The House passed the USA Freedom Act in May, a bill that originally garnered wide support but which quickly become so watered down by more loopholes and loose provisions. It has yet to be passed in the Senate, but so…
The time has finally come for gamers to take over the sports world. Already, over 750 high schools across America and Canada participate in the League of Legends High School Star League and now Robert Morris University (RMU) in Illinois is ready to join the already established Collegiate Star League (CSL) but with a twist….
Welcome to Dark Souls 2, where it is up to you to free the land of Drangleic from an ancient curse. Of course, this isn’t going to be easy so Geek Insider is here to help! Items: Life gem x7 (use to receive 500 HP over 11 seconds) Homeward Bone x8 (returns player to last…
With the new Godzilla movie out in theaters, it’s time for a brief history of the beloved beast. From narrowly avoiding a body design that included an atomic mushroom cloud for a head, to having a roar made by the sound produced by rubbing a resin coated glove along the string of a contrabass and then slowing…
Book 3 is on the Horizon As you fellow LOK fans have hopefully found out, a trailer for Book 3 (aka Season 3): Change was released pretty recently. For those who haven’t seen it yet, check it out below!!! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0UBbzeFc74] As you can tell, there is a lot to look forward to: a variety…
Markiplier posted a vlog to his 2.5 million subscribers last week to give some brief updates and to address the recent communication between him and his expanding fanbase. For the past few weeks, Markiplier and his fans held open dialogues about the current direction of the channel, both in its content as well as its goals as a…
Win It! – New York Comic Con Prize Pack – Courtesy of New York Comic Con, Loot Crate, and Con*Quest Enter for a chance to win our NYCC Prize Pack. The prize pack includes: (2) 3-day passes to New York Comic Con 2014 (1) 3-month Loot Crate Subscription (2) Con*Quest Adventure Journals $150 Spending Cash…
And the awesome themes just keep coming! This month’s monthly subscription Loot Crate theme is ‘Transform’. With the announcement of this new theme, a lot of speculation was swirling around social media debating on what Loot Crate’s upcoming theme could mean, prior to the box shipping out. Now that we have it in hand, we…
5. Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga or “Animal-Person Caricatures” (Japan) Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga (the literal translation of which is “Animal-Person Caricatures”), shortened to Choujuu-giga, is a 12th/13th century Japanese series of scroll drawings (emakimono) from Kyoto, Japan, and is widely recognized as the first manga. The series of scrolls has no confirmed author, though many scholars believe the monk and astronomer Toba Soujou created them. The right-to-left reading direction of Choujuu-giga is thought to have created the…