Last week, I passed on my top tips for how to start out as an online gamer and survive the dreaded world of being a n00b – a treacherous world of death, crashes and failure. A world where it’s very easy to be driven to such foamy-mouthed anger that expensive keyboards and mice can…
Amar Gopal Bose, the founder of audio company Bose, is no more. The audio pioneer died on 12th July, he was 83. The cause of death is unknown. Bose is best known for founding Bose Corporation, perhaps the most famous name in the world for audio equipment. Dr Bose founded Bose Corporation in 1964, while…
Astro City #2 is finally here and with it comes the start of a new Astro City adventure. In this issue, writer Kurt Busiek introduces us to Marella, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary job. As an operative of a call centre devoted to directing emergency calls to super heroes, Marella’s life takes many wild…
Welcome back anime fans, to this weeks installment of Why Haven’t You Seen It? A weekly segment where Geek Insider brings you a fantastic anime every Monday that you can find and watch for free (legally) online! This week we have the Victorian, “monster of the week” anime, that turns out to be much more…
Despite Judge Dredd and 2000AD being around since 1977, most comic books fans outside of the United Kingdom are likely to have had their first exposure to Mega-City One after watching Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider fool around in the 1995 cinematic let down Judge Dredd. But after having the slate wiped clean with the…
While the Steam Summer Sale trucks on, the UK based retailer Green Man Gaming, won’t sit idly by and let them garner all the PC gaming attention (and probably not the cash load of money exchanging hand too). At 7AM Pacific today, GMG launched a new 30% off coupon code GMG30-LY2G6-UKDYY which takes 30% off…
We’ve heard and read a lot of rumors regarding the upcoming Moto X phone. We’ve already learnt that the Moto X phone will allow the users to design the phone themselves. Although, no official images of the phone have been shown so far but now, a Chinese blogging site, Weibo has leaked an image of…
Google has brought back voice calling to its messaging service Hangouts. Gmail and Google+ get the addition as well. In a blogpost, Google announced the addition of voice calling capability after public demand. Hangouts was launched as a unified messaging app by Google at the Google I/O conference in May this year. It is available…
In the late 1990s in the United States, the latest social phenomenon that occupied the disposable income of children was “Pokémon.” With the Nintendo games and the trading cards, we weren’t hurting for products focused on Pikachu and his friends. The cartoon on WB kids was the talk of the playground. But then in 1999,…
Google Glass user Chris Barrett has recorded what seems to be the first arrest filmed using the augmented reality glasses. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4isOSntnpo8] [youtube https://youtu.be/4isOSntnpo8] Chris is an independent film-maker, and founder of PRserve, a “PR for startups”. He was walking down Wildwood, New Jersey on July 4, where he happened to spot a brawl, and the…
With all the distressed damsels out there, it seemed only fair to focus on the women in Geekdom that are much more concerned with saving themselves, that with scoring Prince Charming. This week- Cersei Lannister. Creator: George R.R. Martin, or as we call him in our house “The dude that just needs to finish the…
My first article, here at Geek Insider was a wishlist addressed directly to Gran Turismo, asking for the gaming series that has been in my life since I was about eight years old to be given a breath of fresh air. Because as I said in that piece, I do love Gran Turismo very much….
Is it just or me or there is a lot of banning/blocking going around Saudi Arabia? Well, whatever the reasons, Saudi Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has decided to show the door to one of the most popular messaging service around the world, WhatsApp. According to CITC, WhatsApp has failed to comply with…
It could have been the second game to be Refused Classification, it could have been remembered as the one we weren’t allowed to have. Now, they’ll be remembered for whatever meme the words “Stimulants Out, Supplements In” creates. Awesome. State of Decay has been given R18+ classification in Australia, just by changing the name of…
It’s Christmas time for all PC gamers out there because Steam Summer Sale is now live and will be running for the next 10 days at least. There are tons and tons of PC games on sale with huge discounts. Over the next 10 days, most of the games, nearly 2000 to be exact, will…