• Destiny Gameplay: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide!

    Let’s dive into your…Destiny! Wait, don’t go! I’ll stop with the puns, I swear. The Story The game is set in a period after a “Golden Age” where humans had once lived all over the galaxy. Something happened though and now the only survivors left live on Earth, protected by a great celestial orb called…

  • Five Messed Up Video Games You Won’t Believe Exist

    Video games are awesome. They can take you to other worlds filled with adventure, thrills, chills, and romance or, you know, into the deep, dark depths of someone’s twisted idea of what fun is. This article is definitely about the latter so watch out, dear readers, this contains graphic content that some might find highly…

  • ESRB Ratings: Practical or Political?

    the ESRB, or Entertainment Software Rating Board, ultimately has a noble purpose. As most are familiar, games are rated E(everyone) through M(mature). Each rating level has a minimum age required for the game to be “appropriate”. The purpose of the system is clear: To provide an avenue for parents to determine what kind of media…

  • PC: To Build or Not to Build?

    A good PC is an invaluable asset. it not only can fulfill much of your academic and professional needs, it can bolster the quality of your entertainment. When it comes to getting one, there are two traditional avenues: Buy or build. This article hopes to give you some food for thought in making a decision…

  • The Destiny of “Destiny”

    In September of 2014 Activision and Bungie gave us the long awaited Destiny and it received mixed reactions. Some reviewers gave it an 8 out of 10, others a 6. It wasn’t exactly what Bungie was hoping for after being the company behind Halo, one of the most successful and loved gaming titles to date. Perhaps Destiny‘s…

  • How to Stream a Game With Twitch.tv

    With game-streaming services becoming huge, anyone can become an internet sensation by playing games for an audience, or just share what they love to play with their friends. With Twitch.tv, streaming your video game live is extremely easy. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One all have built-in support for streaming with it. Some PC games do…

  • 5 of the Most Influential Men in Video Game History

    Video game history is full of those who have made video games what they are today and it would be a rather long article to try to talk about them all, so we have picked five of the best and most influential men in video game history to represent them all.   From Russia With Love:…

  • How to Properly Backup and Restore iPhone Data

    It sucks when something happens and you lose your phone or break it, then realize that it means all your photos, videos, texts, and Flappybird scores are gone. But it doesn’t have to be so brutal, as long as you properly backup your data, you can restore everything to a new iPhone. There are three…

  • The Game that Never Was: Ura Zelda

      Master Quest Does Not Equal Ura Zelda? Some gamers believe that The Legend of Zelda: Master Quest, a harder version of the Ocarina of Time that contains different arranged dungeons, is Ura Zelda. It was released on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2002 for Japan, and 2003 in North America and Europe, and later remade as an…

  • What Blizzard Is Missing in ‘Warlords of Draenor’

    Disclaimer: This article is NOT a a gripe against Blizzard, a poor review of the new expansion, or any claim that Warlords of Draenor isn’t absolutely awesome. This expansion is just what WoW needed after years of getting it wrong. WoD succeeds where its predecessor, Mists of Pandaria, failed. Blizzard finally gave us a game that actually feels…

  • Kingdom Rush: Free Flash Game 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: Kingdom Rush Where Can It Be Found This game can be found on Kongregate but is…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…