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James Huneycutt

James is a stealth nerd, and a subtle geek focusing on interactive entertainment, tabletop RPGs, and sci-fi fandom of all sorts.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Announced. Also, Kevin Spacey

In a move that almost defines the opposite of surprise, Activision has released a trailer for the next installment in the venerable Call of Duty franchise. In a move that almost defines the very concept of surprise, this trailer features Kevin Spacey and is … almost unquestionably awesome.

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Announcing PixelatedGeek’s Weekly TwitchTV Stream – PXL Play!

Hiya loyal fan-base of excellently clever geeks with good character and awesome taste! We here over at the PixelatedGeek offices would like to extend a warm invitation to our newest weekly tradition, the PixelatedGeek TwitchTV Stream, lately dubbed PXL Play!. Tune in every week at 10PM Eastern/7PM Pacific at http://www.twitch.tv/pixelatedgeek to check out PixelatedGeek staffers go

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TITANFALL Launch Live-Blog!

Hey lovely gentle-nerds. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Respawn Entertainment’s TITANFALL launched earlier this evening, and we’re live-blogging and streaming the first few hours of play from our Twitch.TV account. Make sure to check back with us!      Please feel free to shoot comments to the CoverItLive window, and make sure you check out

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James Huneycutt

Review: Thief

Thief is the latest installment in a franchise that is near and dear to my heart – in fact, I can think of one title only that predates the first installment in the franchise in my experience, and that was some nonsense pack-in with the first computer my family ever purchased – Thief was the first real

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Batman: Arkham Night Preview Trailer

Hold on to your utility-belts, Bat-faithful, because today brings us some bat-tastic news regarding Rocksteady‘s next entry into the brilliant Arkham franchise! Appearing today on Warner Brothers’ Games UK channel, the new trailer gives us a glimpse of Bruce’s new bat-suit, a smattering of baddies, including fan favorites Harley Quinn and Two-Face, but most importantly a brand-new,

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Gaming
James Huneycutt

[State of Play] Nintendo Plays Their Own Way

Welcome to State of Play, an editorial column from Pixelated Geek. In State of Play, we’ll be dealing with major issues in the gaming community, and we’ll be reaching out to our community for feedback and interaction. Our goal with State of Play is to create a respectful, professional, and insightful dialogue within a group

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TITANFALL – Hands-On Beta Impressions

im·pres·sion noun \im-ˈpre-shən\ : the effect or influence that something or someone has on a person’s thoughts or feelings. … 2.C: an especially marked and often favorable influence or effect on feeling, sense, or mind. We’ve had several teeth-jarringly intense hours to get our feet wet in Respawn‘s high-profile FPS-Hybrid Titanfall. And boy, are we impressed. Unless you’ve

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Gaming
James Huneycutt

Review – Insurgency

In the fall of last year, I had the opportunity to do an extended preview of New World Interactive‘s Insurgency – and was, to put it mildly, not very impressed. Insurgency follows in the footsteps of a great heaping mass of cookie-cutter tactical class-based multi-player shooters, and did so with very little in the way of

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