The official statement: Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, a major global eSports event featuring some of the best pro-gaming competition in the world.Slated to take place in Asia toward the end of 2012, the Battle.net World Championship will host this year’s StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. Blizzard gamers [...]
January 25, 2012
Dominick Vitelli
Computers, Diablo III, Games
According to Boy Genius Report the Nokia Lumia 900 will go on sale March 18th for $99 on AT&T. The Lumia 900 is a huge flagship phone for Nokia and Windows Phone 7. Nokia’s line up of handsets have been quoted as “the first real Windows Phone”, those words were passed on the heels the Lumia 800. [...]
January 25, 2012
Damian Estrada
Hardware, Microsoft, Phones, WP7
Grand Theft Auto 3 looks like it will be heading to the PSN. The news comes from a new ESRB rating for the title! There will also be a re-release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City along side it. The ESRB only mentions a rating for PS3 versions of the titles. This means Xbox 360 users will not [...]
Back at the lack luster VGA awards Epic Games debut their new game Fortnite I was immediately intrigued. The game pits you against the army of the undead as you build a base set in a stylized post-apocalyptic world. Instead of going the Minecraft route the game will allow you to build prefab [...]
January 24, 2012
Phasmatis
XBox 360
We’ve all seen articles about ten ways to improve Skyrim but this isn’t one of them. No instead we have used devious cunning to figure out ten deliciously malevolent ways to ruin Skyrim. Presenting Ten Ways to Ruin Skyrim. Warning: Ideas may not in fact ruin game but make for a sweet mod. All modders [...]
January 24, 2012
Phasmatis
Skyrim
Throughout history the market continues to move forward and change. Those who don’t or can’t keep up with the market and its changes are set to go out of business to be replaced with more competent and better competing businesses. This constitutes a basic market force that many in industry seek to circumvent. To accomplish [...]
January 24, 2012
Phasmatis
Internet, Security, SOPA / PIPA
My nerd out meter was off the charts when I saw this. I don’t know about all of you but when I first saw the other videos of Quantum Levitation I immediately thought flying cars! In the video a couple of scientists use a wipe out track to demonstrate the potential of quantum levitation So here [...]
January 24, 2012
Chris Collazo
Nerd
Have you ever sat back in your gamer chair and thought on how a company could be so dumb to include DRM. We all know it doesn’t stop pirates who have DRM free version out and often within 2 hours of the games release. All DRM does is encourage pirating because everyone would rather own [...]
January 23, 2012
Phasmatis
Games
This is a video game review for the new Playstation 3 game Heavy Rain and an evaluation of the replay value of the game. I had high expectations for this based on the buzz of rave reviews from Gamespot and IGN. Overall I was only somewhat impressed with this offering from Quantic Dream studios. Be [...]
January 23, 2012
Danny Hauger
PlayStation 3
It’s been a while so bear with me. With the amount of people investing in SSD’s due to the outrageous prices of platter drives because of the flooding, I figure that it would be beneficial to talk about how to keep that Windows 7 install small on that drive so you can load it up with other [...]
January 23, 2012
Kyle Toves
Computers, Hardware, Nerd, Software, Windows