Archive for the 'Games' Category

Aug 03 2012

Being mentored by a League of Legends Vet. A Noobs diary begins now #LoL

There has been hype of all kinds the last few years in PC Gaming. I have embraced some of it (See SWTOR, Skyrim, Arkham City), and have avoided others (League of Legends, Minecraft, Dungeons of Dreadmore). LoL is the perfect example of one that I have not entirely avoided on purpose. Although I am not […]

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Jul 18 2012

Visiting Eastern Long Island and a couple of FLGS, my thoughts #Boardgames #FLGS

Published by under board games,Games

This week is vacation week for the GeekJock and also the first time I have been back home to Long Island in prob. 3 years. As I am sure most people are tired of hearing about, the whole working overnight thing had gotten in the way a bit and I wasn’t able to get back […]

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Feb 06 2012

More attention should be paid to color blind board gamers by publishers #boardgames #colorblind

Published by under board games,Games

Anyone who has listened to our podcast (The Geek Allstars) will know that one of our ranks, Todd (Gyroplay), is a colorblind gamer. Generally this has been only a minor inconvenience to him in the game and also garners the usual good natured ribbing by the rest of us. However, it wasn’t until our latest […]

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Sep 20 2011

A Nice full weekend of gaming at a local board game convention Part 1 #boardgames #TBGT

Published by under board games,Games

The weekend had finally arrived… it was basically my first board gaming convention ever. I have always been a big gamer, both in board games and in card games (and obviously video games but we all knew that) but it was a little over a year ago that I took the plunge and decided to […]

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Aug 19 2011

Just Dance 3 Song list revealed, a decent list of fun and WTF

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My kids and wife love this game, and I will admit I have fun watching them play it. I can safely admit I play it at times too b/c hey it’s fun to play with the kids (and the Mrs.) and it’s a good way to get a decent work out too! But, the problem […]

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Aug 04 2011

Diablo 3 to have real money auction house. Smart move or sign of the apocalypse #diablo3 #diablo3auctionhouse

Published by under Blizzard,Diablo3,Games

In most people’s eyes when it comes to gaming Blizzard can do no wrong. And sure, in other peoples eyes, everything Blizzard does is work of the wort people in the industry. Just like with the RealID fiasco that was almost 1 year ago to the month, Blizzard has made HUGE waves with one of […]

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Jul 25 2011

Comic Con 2011 GeekJock’s good the bad the ugly and the great #comiccon2011

I have put a few things up with some comments this weekend but I wanted to highlight just a couple more things here as a conclusion to Comic Con 2011 weekend. The Good Gamespot.com and EW.com’s coverage were both amazingly awesome. EW had some great interviews (although most posted were only about 3 mins which […]

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Jul 23 2011

Warhammer 40000 Space Marine in game footage

Published by under Comic Con 2011,Games

Another great interview brought to us from Gamespot.com. They show us some in game footage from Warhammer 40K  Space Marine. It’s a third person shooting fighting romp set in the hyper violent world of Warhammer 40K, where there is an unlimited supply of Orks and humans walk around in 7 foot tall armor and cannot […]

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Jul 21 2011

Comic-Con 2011 has started… SWTOR pre-order is live and here’s a nice Batman AC trailer

Published by under Comic Con 2011,Games

So this morning while I was finishing up at work, I checked my mail and saw the official mail from SWTOR…. Pre-Order is live! I was pretty excited to see that the rumors about it were true. Well, excited about it all except for that nice 150$ pricetag for the ultimate collector’s edition and that […]

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Mar 23 2011

PVP servers are for teenagers/College kids and the unemployed… A take on a point brought up on “The Instance” podcast #PVP #MMO #TheInstance

I was listening to one of the most recent episodes of the great podcast “The Instance”, when Turpster, “Dills” and Scott all seemed to have differing opinions on the idea of PVP in MMOs. A caller said he made a character on a PVP server b/c a friend played there. However, he has since grown […]

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