Category: Gaming

Skip Starbucks: Go to the Dark Side

Exam time, cold weather, or just an addiction to caffeine in general has me drinking coffee as though the fate of Alderaan depends on it (which apparently means that I should have imbibed a lot more).  I usually like my coffee with a lot of creamer and sugar, flavored some, but the fate of my exam grades

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Josh

WCG Holiday Heroes III

This weekend, December 11-12 in New York City, World Cyber Games (WCG) kicked off its third annual Holiday Heroes tournament, focusing on Halo: Reach. Teams had to meet at 9AM for check-in at the Samsung Experience and, soon after, the gaming had begun. There were about twelve teams, and each faced a double elimination. When a

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WETA Builds Life-Sized, Fully Functional, Team Fortress 2 Sentry Gun

WETA, bad-ass creators of props for popular films such as Lord of Rings, District 9, Halo Live-Action Short Films recently sent a nice holiday gift to VALVe.  According to the official Team Fortress blog, a level one sentry gun was delivered and placed in the VALVe lobby. The gun comes fully equipped with a motion

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And the 2010 Spike TV VGA winners are…

Andrew and I just got back home from the Video Game Awards “Red Carpet.”  We are tired as fuck.  This was our first red carpet event, and we learned quite a lot.  We’ll be posting a video of our interviewees as well as an article about our own thoughts.  But, for now, we are going

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Impressive Call of Duty 4 Video

Keeping up with our apparent video theme for this week, I wanted to show you guys a video I have been holding on to in my favorites list for some time now. Mazarini and Paradox are professional CoD: 4 players who put together this rather amazing video of their adventures. Quite honestly, I am not even concerned

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Gaming
Nelson Abalos

Tripod – Ep.003 – Uncharted makes grown men cry

On last night’s recording of the Tripod, there was a lot of crying, especially when I mentioned Uncharted 3. Other topics we discussed on the show were a little bit of the anonymous protest (Operation PayBack) over the Wikileaks shut down, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and some TRON: Legacy.

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

OnLive Micro Console Bandwidth Test

There has been a lot of talk recently about OnLive. Especially after the announcement about their $9.99 a month Unlimited Game service. Now OnLive has more the one flavor. I’ve already had a chance to do a Video Bandwidth test on PC / Mac. Though I was really itching to try out the console version.

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Neil Patrick Harris Talks About the Spike TV VGAs

With the Spike TV Video Game Awards only two days away, it’s safe to say that we here at Pixelated Geek are excited to be part of it this year. So, while Andrew and Nelson prepare to suit up for the red carpet event, Neil Patrick Harris gives us a glimpse of what to expect

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The List of Presenters at this Year’s Spike TV VGAs

This just in: we got our red carpet passes as well as the list of celebs that will be there. I hope I get to shake the hand of Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible.  Everyone else is an “eh” for me.  We’ll have live streaming coverage of the red carpet this weekend at PixelatedLive.com. Stay

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