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Have you ever met some one while playing Call of Duty that thought they were the best player ever? They kept talking about how they were gonna own your whole team with their awesome quick-scopes and crap like that? They insist that your team is crap and that you suck, and somehow they know your…
These days I don’t seem to be able swing a mouse without coming across the announcement of another new MMO game. I’m certainly not complaining about this uptick in popularity and variety. It’s refreshing to be able to go beyond the realms of EverQuest and WoW, and even the RPG genre, when it comes to MMO…
When most people think of a gamer, the image that comes to mind is of an unattractive man living in his parents’ basement eating junk food all day and hardly going outside. That is, for the most part, a false stereotype…right? While a few gamers may be like that, they’re certainly not the norm. Most…
Every kid wanted their own Yoshi growing up—partly because we figured he could help clean our rooms by gulping up the mess—but mostly because he’s so flippin’ adorable! For developers, this appeal of the cute character is a powerful tool that makes game play more fun and, in many cases, opens up a whole new…
Imagine if your favorite game were to transcend into our reality. If it were Super Mario Brothers, mushrooms would make you big enough to walk right through traffic, and all pipes would take you to a magical world. If it were Dead Island, zombies would be everywhere and you would probably be dead as well…
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. The damnable racket never really stops. As I wander alone through long-abandoned, detritus-filled corridors, that persistent and mind-numbing noise is my only companion, save for the meager light of my cell phone. I know all too well what portents it carries. Sometimes, the ticking stops, but never…
As I mentioned in my review of Outlast, I’ve heard many people claim it to be a better horror game than A Machine For Pigs. In my experience, this wasn’t so at all. I thoroughly enjoyed both games – albeit for different reasons – and found that both were equally worthy of being part of…
Valve has recently made three announced that will shake up PC gaming, for what the company assumes is the better. I disagree. SteamOS sounds great at first: your whole Steam collection in console form that can easily be usable while on the couch in the living room, why not!? SteamOS Well, unfortunately, that’s hardly the…
At some point, growing up happens to all of us. The all-night gaming sessions give way to an all-day work schedule. The Mega Man sheets and bedspreads are thrown out and replaced with something more “sensible” and “adult”, and we’re told to start paying attention to things like thread count, instead of which one of…
Rhythm games are as hard to find these days as fanny packs and Surge. With the declining interest of the popular plastic-instrument pastimes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, there just is not much of a demand for those types of games anymore. Luckily, there are still enough diehard fans of the genre so good…
Hey there, folks! I’m trying something new; something which will hopefully become a regular fixture on Geek Insider. It’s called Horror Game of The Week. Every week, I’ll dig up a new horror game – or mod – from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Internet. After playing that game for a little while (and…
Diablo 3 has just been released for home console to critical acclaim. It has been described as the definitive version of Diablo 3 and an all around awesome game. In commemoration of this event I want to talk to you all about the real Diablo 3. Many hardcore fans of the Diablo series were…unhappy with…
So in part 1 of my Grand Theft Auto Retrospective, I discussed the humble early days of the world’s biggest video game franchise. Those trashy shows and early tours, playing dive bars and garages for petrol money and tequila shots and becoming known for wild and controversial stage shows. It’s hard to remember those heedy…
It’s difficult to know where to start with GTA V. As a reviewer, I want my opening gambit to not only capture my reader but to also summarize nicely whatever game I happen to be reviewing at the time. Nowadays, a popular method among game journalists is to describe, in vivid detail, a small nugget…
Ouya was hoping for lightning to strike twice when they launched their “Free the Games Fund.” After the Ouya console itself was funded by a kickstarter that snagged a good chunk of cash and became one of the most successful campaigns ever, they figured they’d try again for the software side of things. The premise…