Category: Gaming

Bioshock Infinite to Feature “1999 Mode.”

Have you found yourself playing a modern shooter/rpg and found yourself wishing it could be more like the games of your past? Well the folks at Irrational Games had the same idea and polled their fans to see what they thought. Turns out a lot of people agree and Irrational Games announced today that Bioshock

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Trailer Park – Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Welcome to the first episode of Trailer Park, a new show where we take a look at, analyze, and discuss new trailers.  And for our inaugural episode, fellow writer James Trauben and I discuss something that’s been bothering us for quite some time. With a brand new year comes brand new things, and something big

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[CES 2012] Mass Effect 3 Kinect Support, Interview with Aaryn Flynn

With Mass Effect 3’s release only a couple months away, BioWare held a private hands-on demonstration of the game’s Kinect support during the Consumer Electronics Show. Mass Effect 3 uses the Kinect to allow players to interact with the game through vocal commands. This neatly avoids the potential difficulty of adapting a conventional third-person shooter

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Bethesda Softworks Regains Rights to Fallout MMO

The rights to a potential Fallout MMO have landed back home at Bethesda Softworks, concluding a battle between Interplay and Bethesday since April 2009 when Interplay missed a two-year deadline to acquire funding and begin development. Interplay pointed fingers at Masthead Studios, claiming that they already sublicensed the title for development, and that said development

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Gaming
Anthony Silva

Review: Star Wars the Old Republic

A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far far away, rumors of a new Star Wars MMO began to circulate. The star systems of Star Wars Galaxies had all but been abandoned and the thought of another MMO would have been tedious and redundant. Soon to follow was the confirmation of the

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

Review: Turtle Beach X12 with DSS Encoder

Seems gaming headsets are becoming a popular item these days. A once-vacant aisle at Best Buy is now filled with a plethora of different types, ranging from casual all the way up to pro, including the Turtle Beach X12. While my initial impressions of this headset were good at my local Best Buy, I wanted

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Skryim, Portal, Arkham City Headline Spike TV’s VGAs

On December 10th, Spike TV held their annual Video Game Awards special, where all things gaming were celebrated and commemorated.  This was certainly a great year in gaming — even your fellow PG! writers are trying to figure out what the best of the best was this year. For those of you who didn’t catch the

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Gaming
Raul Valle

[Review] Back to the Future: The Game – Retail Edition (PS3/Wii)

Last December, we here at Pixelated Geek took a first look at the first episode of Telltale Games’ five-part time-traveling point-and-click adventure series, Back to the Future: The Game. A welcome entry to an already stellar film trilogy, Back to the Future: The Game’s premiere episode was not only entertaining, but also helped pave the way for an

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