Category: Gaming

Huge Update for the Nintendo 3DS this Holiday Season

Although the high price of the Nintendo 3DS deterred many potential customers at first, the company seems determined to really give the customers what they want. In addition to the somewhat recent price drop, Nintendo is also releasing a whole slew of new games and features that will “make Nintendo 3DS a smart gift option

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Portal 2 DLC to Feature In-Game Editor

Valve, creators of the hit franchise Portal, are going to be releasing an in-game editor via DLC for Portal 2 early next year. Valve has released a few sneak peeks at the tool currently in development. Stay tuned in with PixelatedGeek for any developments in this story.

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Taylor Tate

Pixelated Geek’s BlizzCon News Center

Blizzcon is in full swing and news is flying out at such speed it can be difficult to keep up, but never fear: Pixelated Geek is here to help. This will be a collection of news stories focused on Blizzcon updated throughout the convention. First up: the addition and removal of units from Starcraft 2

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Gaming
Andrew Plein

Video Review: Batman Arkham City

This seems to be the week of the Bat. Not only did we get an animated bat-flick with Year One, we also get to revisit the joys of a RockSteady bat-title with a trip to Arkham City. Our heroes are ready to take on all the riddles to help you, our dear reader, figure out

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The Rare Art of Gaming Perfection

Hopefully everyone has played a game that when you experience any particular part about the game or just the product as a whole you think to yourself, “Wow, that game really does (x-feature) really well.” If you haven’t then I suggest you should just play every game you can get your hands on and embark on a quest of game discovery. There are many ways in which a game can be perfect or can present something unique to anyone who plays them. Whether it be environmental design, character design, voice acting, even something as basic as controller layouts. Literally any feature or part of a game is a chance for perfection or excellence.

Usually I would say that it is a rare occasion where I find a game that I put on a special shelf of games I will never part with because they did one thing so well. Perhaps it is because I find myself in a less than totally cynical mood while writing this or maybe it is because it is the holiday release season where all good things gaming are supposedly showering down around us for a good 5 months. My point is that this presentation of something so wonderful is usually a rare experience. So let us take a wonderful journey through some of games I feel truly stand above the rest in one form or the other.

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Gaming
James Trauben

Ace Combat Assault Horizon Flits in and out of the Danger Zone

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon places me into an awkward position. On the one hand, it is damned hard to make flying a jet fighter through epic dogfights not exhilarating. My inner child, the one who watched Top Gun as a kid until my parents must have conveniently “lost” the video, is very easily pleased when

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e-SportsCenter

Welcome to the debut edition of e-SportsCenter, a new weekly column bringing you the latest news, updates, and info about all things to do with e-sports…if I can stop watching the MLG Orlando streams for long enough to write, that is.

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Starcraft Universe launching Open Developer Preview

Starcraft Universe is holding an Open Developer Preview over the US and EU Battle.net from October 19th to October 30th while the developers are at BlizzCon. The preview takes place in the “Encephalon Grid,” a player-vs-player arena allowing players to start as level 30 with a full set of gear tailored towards PvP. The player’s

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New walkthrough video for Deux Ex: Human Revolution DLC

A new walkthrough video is available for the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution downloadable content pack “The Missing Link,” dealing with Adam Jensen’s three-day absence in his search for the truth during Human Revolution. Narrated by designer Antoine Thisdale, the new video displays a section of the second half of “The Missing Link,” due for

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