Hi guys! Welcome back to the Water Cooler, featuring your host James Huneycutt, Bob Beshere, Jonathan Crass, Payne Curlin, Alex Wylie, and Taylor Tate. This week’s Water Cooler focuses on the blockbuster hit Gears of War 3! Check it out for the best in genuine, loud, and slightly inappropriate geek discourse. Topics include: Destroyed beauty
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Hi guys! Welcome back to the Water Cooler! Check out this very special Star Wars edition of the Water Cooler, brought to you by Pixelated Geek’s east coast staff! Brilliantly geeky topics include (but are FAR from limited to): Favorite Star Wars EVERYTHING! The relative morality of Lando Calrissian. The unsung heroes of the Star Wars trilogy.
Finally, after months of waiting with baited breath, BioWare and LucasArts have decided to keep us is the dark no longer. According to the official Star Wars: The Old Republic news site, this highly-anticipated MMORPG (not to mention potential WoW-killer) will be released on December 20 in North America, and the 22nd in Europe. I’m
Gears of War 3 has finally graced our presence and I am here to tackle the Epic Edition. Is this collector’s edition worth calling “epic,” or just epic fail?
Without even going into a discussion of its mechanical achievements, Gears of War 3 is a compelling work of narrative and the most polished entry in the franchise. It is a rejection of the concept that storytelling is anathema to the shooter genre, and developers could certainly do worse than mimic Epic’s masterpiece. It is
I’m not the largest Call of Duty fan out there, I don’t buy all the dlc packs, I don’t particularly enjoy Black Ops, and I find myself growing ever more cynical about the lack of cooperation amongst teammates when playing the more recent titles in the Call of Duty franchise.
That being said, I still play Modern Warfare 2 like a fiend. Its as if I have an addiction to the game which wouldn’t be a total surprise as I often ride passenger to my addictive personality. I hit the prestige cap long ago and I can clearly remember numerous nights of playing round after round of the fast paced and twitchy shooter. Most likely, after I finish this column I will proceed directly to my PlayStation 3 and fire up Modern Warfare 2 and play a few rounds.
Just what is it that draws me back to playing the Call of Duty games time after time? Why do Call of Duty games persistently outsell equally good, if not better, other first person shooters? What does Call of Duty have that other games don’t?
Warbreaker is a stand alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, who you may know as the author finishing The Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan. That is where I first saw Sanderson’s work, and I immediately fell in love with his writing. I started devouring his books, from his first fantasy novel, Elantris, to
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