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Nelson Abalos

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San Diego Comic Con Tickets Sold Out in One Day

If you forgot to set your alarm clock last Saturday at 9am, you missed out. All San Diego Comic Con badges are now sold out. I’m not just talking about the four-day badges without the preview night. This also includes all the single-day passes. This year is the fastest yet that the Comic Con badges

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Real Bullet Magazine Counter

Inspired by FPS games, someone has gone ahead and created something so simple and genius for guns.  A real bullet magazine counter that will tell you have many bullets you have left to fire.  It’s funny how I would see this everyday on my HUD but never have thought to see these in real life.

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Duty Calls – A Call of Duty Parody Game by Epic Games and EA

The Call of Duty franchise always had a huge marketing push before it’s initial release date. But, big hype doesn’t actually mean the game will be any good.  Epic Games and EA, have come out with a downloadable parody game called Duty Calls.  The game was basically a shot in the face of what Call

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Marvel VS Capcom 3 – Intro Video Shows the Fate of Two Worlds

We are just days away from the official release date of the long-awaited Marvel VS Capcom 3. We’ve played this game at E3 and PAX, seen exhibition matches played and streamed online from EVO. February 15th couldn’t come any sooner. (I want to bash heads in with my lifebar using Deadpool, now!) Past the break, is the

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Today Show 1994 – “What is the Internet?”

It’s amazing how fast technology grows. In a YouTube clip from the 1994 Today Show with Bryant Gumble, a puzzled Gumble starts asking what the “@” means.  Does it mean “at,” “around,” or “about”? I was in the 6th grade back in 1994.  All I knew about the Internet was that it came in the

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Welcome to Another Exciting Match-up on Monday Night Combat

The popular Xbox Live Arcade game, Monday Night Combat, is now on Steam! Download it now, here. I don’t know why you even need to read further than this. I guess you need more information on why this game needs to be in your Steam library as of right now? Ugh. Read our review here

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Tripod – Ep.006 – World of Starcraft, GameCrush and Little Big Planet 2

In this week’s episode, we talk about the now famous World of Starcraft MMO mod, get impressions of GameCrush from Andrew and James, and talk about Little Big Planet 2.  Also, starting with this episode, we’ll be doing some geek trivia.  If you know the answer, just email it to nelson[at]pixelatedgeek(dot)com and get yourself some points.

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