These games appeal to non-gamers because they have simple premises, low pressure, easy learning curves, and don’t require a huge time commitment. Another good feature is fun co-op for parties or hangout time. Most of these games are either puzzles, party games, or platformers with a few sandbox games thrown in. It’s possible that if…
Netflix is the ultimate way to catch up on all of your Geekery! For anyone who has been resisting getting Netflix (why are you here?), I should point out that you don’t need to watch on your computer. You can use a mobile device and on your TV with a game console or a streaming…
Obviously, if you’re reading this, you are one of two things: one half of a geek couple looking to spice up your usual hum drum geeky Friday night routine OR you are trying to woo a certain special geek with hopes of settling into a usual hum drum geeky Friday night routine. Here are a…
For years, we’ve seen a wide array of bags and cases designed especially for console gamers to transport their consoles and gear. While consoles are more portable and are taken from place to place more often than a PC and its accessories, there has never been a really high quality way for PC gamers to…
The castle rests on a distant hill, as it has for centuries. Balefully as you approach, you mouth its name – “Hamson.” Standing there in front of the gate is a figure your family has come to know well – countless ancestors have died on these grounds, trying to lift the curse that befell both…
For those of you who have been living under a rock, Batman: Arkham Origins recently swooped onto shop shelves and into disc trays bringing us the prequel to the Arkham series that no one really asked for. So without further ado, let’s take a look into the game. (Spoilers! Duh!) Gotham’s Savior or Bad Joke?…
Anodyne is sort of what I’d imagine The Legend of Zelda would look like if it were designed by Sigmund Freud. Players step into the shoes–and the mind–of Young, a bespectacled protagonist in a white coat. Young has been tasked with exploring the far reaches of his subconscious mind, traveling to a wide array of…
If you have an extra $20,000.00 to spare, feel free to buy the entire Invisible Man Kit, available from Optics Planet. The video “advertisement” on the Optics Planet website made me laugh harder than I have in a long time. Think of the acting from one of those upside down tomato basket commercials, and then…
As the lives of employees and employers become more and more dependent on technology, video conferencing has risen from it’s status as an enjoyable novelty to an essential tool. Not only are more and more people using video conferencing to communicate and do business with people who are not located near their office, they are…
The original Star Trek series is silly, campy, and colorful and the GIFs rain from the Heavens! Every new GIF is the favourite for a while, until you find the next hilarious, touching, or ridiculous animation. Typing “Star Trek GIF” into Tumblr is like pulling the lever on a slot machine that always pays out….
Don’t you hate it when you watch a show, fall in love with all the characters, and then for reasons unknown, the network pulls the plug? “Fall in ratings” is the claim, but you know that can’t be true because the show is so awesome and so fantastic that anyone who is anyone should be…
Another year, another Assassin’s Creed game: Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. Since the series was launched back in 2007, the franchise has spawned a total of 15 releases; 5 main games and a host of spin-offs. That’s an average of 3 new titles a year. And it’s not only games. There are also several novels, comic…
To protect important websites from the threat of DDoS attacks, Google recently launched a new initiative. Called Project Shield, the service aims to assist news, human rights, or election-content websites from a Distributed Denial of Service attack. A DDoS attack is one of the most common methods of attack, and is used frequently by hacker…
One thing we like to do at Geek Insider is watch anime–especially ones about 12-man tournaments in which the participants must kill each other. Toss in diaries that can predict the future, stalker girlfriends, psycho terrorists, and some pretty over the top action and you’ve got the ingredients for an awesome anime. This week we…
If you were to make a list of the world’s creepiest and unnerving places, old mental hospitals would definitely rank in the top ten, right next to prisons and the Paris Catacombs. There’s just something inherently unnerving – and undeniably terrifying – about walking through the rusted, abandoned corridors of what must once have been…