Nerd Or Geek

Hot on the heels of the PS3 price drop to $199.99, Microsoft has fired back with an XBOX/Kinect bundle for $99.00. The catch is you have to sign up for 2 years of XBOX Live Gold for $14.99 a month bringing the total package to around $460.  Wait, what? If you were going to sign [...]

  Hidden Gem: Legend of Dragoon    Legend of Dragoon for the PS1 game console is what you would call a hidden gem.  You go to the store looking for games for your PS1 and you come across this game, looks cool, good price and its four disks long.  Worth a try you say to [...]

    As many of you know from playing Halo Reach, you know have the ability to use a jetpack.  Is this a good thing or is this a bad thing?  Let’s examine some pros and cons of the new jetpack feature below:   Pros of the Jetpack New way to get out of danger [...]

It’s the yearly trip to funny book mecca, tomorrow! There will be 42 different free comic books available at your local comics shop on Saturday, May 5th. Major publishers like Marvel and DC will have offerings as well as smaller imprints. Looking at the list, I see many interesting books to seek out. Sure to [...]

Activision brings Call of Duty franchise to the future. Activision went live with the official UK website for Call of Duty: Black Ops II hours before its NBA Playoffs reveal tonight. The site confirms a November 13 release date and futuristic setting for the title. “Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, [...]

The gaming landscape is shifting sand right now and GameStop is doing everything it can to stay relevant and profitable. Despite charges that its used games policy is killing developers, GameStop does provide a huge variety of offerings to the video game playing public. But as a brick and mortar entity, the future is much [...]

The surprise announcement was made by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang during his keynote address at the NVIDIA Game Festival in Shanghai Powered by dual Kepler architecture-based GeForce GPUs, the GTX 690 is meticulously designed—inside and out—to deliver the most refined, elegant and smooth PC gaming experience possible.   The company notes the “exterior [...]

While Nintendo is arguably the console maker best known for its wide stable of easy-to-milk established franchises, Sony has been building up its own impressive roster of exclusive series over the last couple of decades. So it’s not that much of a shock that the company is throwing many of its biggest titles together into [...]

The US House Of Representatives has passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a margin of 248 to 168. Despite the passing, the bill is still stalled in the Senate and President Obama has indicated he will veto the bill no matter what, regardless.   What is Cispa? The new Act is [...]

Even the pickiest of graphics obsessives has to admit that Crysis 2 looked pretty damn spiffy upon its release last March. But the PC version of the game didn’t look as spiffy as it could until a DirectX 11 update last June. That added features like hardware tessellation, displacement mapping, and realistic shadows. For Crysis [...]