Over the past few weeks, StarCraft has become the game of choice for me and my roommates. Sure, it’s pretty old, and we’ve been waiting for a sequel for-freaking-ever, but it still inspires discussion: yesterday, over a few slices of…
Leave it to Star Trek fans (specifically, players from Cryptic’s licensed MMO Star Trek Online) to boldly go where no geek has gone before. With a combination of style and sheer numbers, nearly one-hundred costumed Trekkies descended on London to…
Happy Presidents’ Day, Geekologists! As your commander-in-chief for all things pixelated, nerdy and intellectual, I’m here to send you out on an important mission. You didn’t really think you’d have the day off today, did you? Listen up: your orders…
Two weeks ago, my roommates and I began a new tradition: once every weekend, our Marines, Zealots and Hydralisks meet on the fields of war to decide the weekend’s StarCraft Sunday champion. For an hour or so, amid seas of…
Ah, Facebook games. The time was that Facebook was just a humble social networking site, connecting college students to the cute people in their recitation sessions. Nowadays, Facebook users can log on and become mafia dons, bloodthirsty vampires, Special Forces…
As new games are released and new technology develops in response, we’re often forced to bid farewell to our favorites from the last generation. This is the case, I fear, with the original Xbox Live classics, such as Counter-Strike and…
Last night, during a viewing of Millennial classic Superbad on network TV, Natalie and I saw a trailer for the upcoming carnage-fest Aliens vs. Predator. The sheer creepy factor of the Aliens, set up in opposition to the sturdy, clunky…
It’s more likely than you think! Only slightly more likely, but still! With the Winter Olympics on the horizon and Morgan Freeman’s voice extolling the virtues of international athletes, it’s only natural that gamers want their piece of the eskimo…
Many Pokemon fans are skilled battlers or trainers, but few have the dedication, stick-to-it-iveness, and sheer geek pride to rise to the level of Pokemon Master. To ascend to this enviable rank and finally ‘catch them all,’ players must not…
You may not remember now that he’s left his 3-D mark on modern cinema, but once upon a time, James Cameron was behind another massive box office success: Titanic. It was a sweeping romance with a heavy dose of history,…
