Nerd Or Geek

At the PlayStation event, Sony has shown off the DualShock 4 controller, and it looks very familiar if you have been following the leaks and rumors. As rumored, the DualShock 4 brings social to your hands with a Share button, that makes it easy to capture and share clips of gameplay with friends and the [...]

Shout out to the guys at TITAN BOOKS for sending me Assassin’s Creed DESMOND, AQUILUS, and ACCIPITER for review!   Assassin’s Creed 1: DESMOND The first in a three-volume series, Desmond essentially provides some back story to the game’s protagonist prior to the very first Assassin’s Creed game. It introduces as new ancestor as well, a [...]

Style: Cherry MX Blue key switch with Mac keys Review Big shout out to the guys over at Das Keyboards for sending me a review unit! (Picture Gallery at then end of the review)   The Das Keyboard is an absolute dream to type on. I don’t do many reviews on keyboards, but this is an exception. All I [...]

The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis (Or At Least Your Battery Life) Why aren’t we powering everything with tiny, fast, biodegradable “batteries”?   THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material [...]

Google has posted a video to show you how it feels to use its ambitious Glass prototype. All the footage in the video is actually recorded through Glass.   The video shows a variety of different scenarios, including sky diving, a rollercoaster ride, horse riding and more. You interact with Glass by simply instructing it to [...]

A picture of an alleged early prototype of a PS4 controller containing what appears to be a touchpad has leaked ahead of the PlayStation event. It had been rumoured in the previous week that the new PlayStation 4 controller would have a touchpad (or touchscreen?) on the front.   Now an image has been posted online [...]

PlayStation 4 will use Sony cloud gaming service Gaikai to stream PlayStation 3 titles over the internet, Wall Street Journal sources “familiar with the company’s plans” have said. Microsoft also experimented with cloud gaming for its next generation Xbox, but has “questioned the costs” associated with building such a service, according to the source.   Additionally, the outlet reports [...]

GameStop cites surveys of its customers. The game retailer – which makes around half of its profits from selling pre-owned games – has warned that its customers might decide not to buy a next generation games console if it blocks playing pre-owned titles.   GameStop spokesman, Matt Hodges, pointed to surveys of members of the [...]

Iwata says Cloud gaming has major issues. Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, was asked by investors about the future of dedicated gaming platforms, and whether they would be negatively affected by newer gaming solutions, like Cloud gaming services.   Needless to say, he dismissed the notion right away, pointing out that Cloud gaming has some [...]

Microsoft apparently aware of Sony’s launch. While Sony is planning to reveal its next-generation PlayStation later this month, Microsoft won’t reveal its next-generation Xbox until spring, according to Polygon “sources familiar with the Microsoft console.”    “Microsoft, while already aware of Sony’s launch timing, plans to hold its own announcement this spring, months after Sony’s [...]