Welcome anime fans, to another entry in Geek Insider’s series “Why Haven’t You Seen It?” Where we take a look at some of the awesome anime that you can find out there on the web for free. After watching the anime we’ve chosen this week I was left asking myself, Why hadn’t I seen it?…
At the turn of the century – which is always a cool thing to say – before we had the grumpiest of cats and long before anybody was twerking on anybody else (topical references: check, and one for luck: Gangnam Style, British television went through an interesting phase. Over the course of a few years,…
Readers of my reviews know my opinion already: mechanical is king. Nothing is worse (to me!) than squishy, soft membrane keys that leave me wondering if I am actually striking them or not. That said, in an office full of geeks who all know the value of a mechanical keyboard, not only can it tend…
Never in my life did I ever expect Mario Party to become a touchy subject. That is, until we were “graced” with Mario Party 9 for the Wii. The series had been absent for an awful long time after Mario Party 8 and many fans, like myself, thought that the series was all washed up…
At 450 meters, it’s not the tallest building in the world. But South Korea is making it special in itself. Called the Tower Infinity, the skyscraper is going to come up near Seoul, South Korea – and it’s going to be ‘invisible’. Tower Infinity: The ‘Invisible’ Skyscraper Architectural firm GDS Architects recently announced approval of…
My girlfriend is an outdoors person. She’s an adept tree-climber, in her life she has ridden everything from horses to tractors everywhere from Zimbabwe to Washington DC. I, on the other hand, spent my formative teenage years streaming Battlestar Galactica. When we started dating almost three years ago, two things were likely to happen: 1) Her…
It’s finally here: The World’s End, the third and final installment of director Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy” of comedy films. In celebration of the theatrical release of The World’s End, we at Geek Insider thought it would be nice to celebrate these three cherished geek-savvy comedies by taking a closer look at the elements and…
Dear Rollercoaster Rides, I don’t want to say you’re out of a job, but I will say that as a term used to describe a tumultuous emotional reaction to a series of events real or imagined, you are about to be replaced by the word- ‘Ghosted’. Ghosted #3, You Got Me I’m a Ghosted fan…
Finnish giant Nokia seems to have gotten very optimistic, post its sale to Microsoft. Well, it’s CEO, to be precise. The company’s current interim CEO – Risto Siilasmaa, is envisioning the company 150 years in to the future. Yes, 150. “This is the beginning of the next 150 years of Nokia’s story” As part of…
Video game development studio Hinterland may be the future of awesome games. The brand new studio was founded by veteran members of the video game industry. All of the founders have extensive histories in the industry stemming from multiple well known companies including BioWare, id Software, Riot, Sony, and Ubisoft. The founder of Hinterland is…
As the leaked gameplay footage gets taken down by DMCA requests, we are now fast approaching Tuesday, September 17th. AKA the national GTA V call-in-sick day. Hit the streets of Los Santos with Rockstar’s big Grand Theft Auto V release. For those who haven’t ordered a copy yet, there’s some solid preorder incentives – especially…
Looking to pick up a copy of the most popular MMORPG of 2012? On the one year anniversary of Guild Wars 2, August 22nd, ArenaNet spawned the new Guild Wars 2: Heroic Edition which includes the base game and 3 extra digital goodies. Priced at $49.99, its $10 less than the standard edition released at,…
Director: Adam Wingard Stars: Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg What do you get when you take a wealthy family in an isolated manse, psychotic killers in animal masks, and death traps that are only rivaled by Kevin McAllister’s exploits in Home Alone? You get one bad-ass slasher film! You’re Next…
Rumours of a World War Z 2 have escaped from my feverish nightmares and found themselves uttered out from Brad Pitt’s lips. As much as I adore seeing society fall and people getting all surprised that the dead are walking (after all those films and you DON’T have a steady supply of tinned food? You…
The iPhone 5C was expected to be the budget-version of Apple’s premium smartphone. However, all the phone seems to have lost is a premium build. Powered by an A6 chip that can still hold its own against the best phones out there right now, the iPhone 5C even has a better front camera than the…