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Trekkies Break World’s Geekiest Record

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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…

Snag ‘Command and Conquer’ Free of Charge

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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…

Facebook’s First FPS

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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…

Steam’s Hardware Survey Says…

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Steam, Valve’s digital content delivery service and candidate for evolution into Skynet, has just completed its monthly hardware survey.  This cyber census collects data from gamers and uses the information to map trends in its users’ hardware preferences.  From the…

What Your Rock Band Instrument Says About You

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I dove head-first into the Rock Band ocean of awesome this Christmas, when I received my first set of plastic instruments and started playing with my family.  As we progressed together through the World Tour, I realized that most people…

Final Fantasy XIV Seeks Beta Testers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Are you excited for Final Fantasy XIII? Sorry, Ologist–you’re living in the past.  Which is also the future.  Square Enix has already moved on to Final Fantasy XIV, the MMO successor to FFXI.  They’re working the kinks out of the…