Author Archive for Catalin Alexandru


Valve Want EA On Steam, Apparently

Whether EA’s Origin is just a show of strength to open up a new revenue stream by prying DLC from Steam’s clutches or an earnest attempt at chipping away a few flakes off Valve’s granite foothold in the PC

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Blizzard Giving Console Diablo 3 “Very Serious” Thought

All that thought Blizzard was putting into a console incarnation of the world’s poorliest categorized action game with RPG elements? Nothing, compared to the push it’s going to get from now on. Gamescom, home of a million revelations and all

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Sony Panel: Single Player Games Extinct In Three Years

We’re not entirely sure what makes otherwise discerning professionals go in for these fanciful predictions. We just hope video game consultant Mark Cerny provided more than the one example Eurogamer wrote about, although it’s not like anyone actually takes

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New Wii Loses GameCube Support, Not Coming To US

New information is trickling out about Nintendo’s non-update to its formerly barely next-gen, soon to be stone age-gen console. Sure, it’s reportedly slightly slimmer and it has a newfound fondness for the horizontal plane, but apparently it’s losing something

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New €99 Sony PSP Lacks WiFi & Is Europe Only

That’s one way to compete with smartphones, we guess, though thinking back to the PSP’s heyday as a sleek and sexy luxury handheld nearly brought a tear to our eyes. Sony’s new PSP will be dubbed E-1000 and will

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“To The Moon” Trailer Could Draw Tears From A Stone

While the art style will most definitely stir Chrono Trigger nostalgia, there’s more of an Up quality to this achingly beautiful trailer for what’s sure to be a thoroughly emotional game. The story behind the game, which the trailer

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Gears Of War 3 Gets 3D, Jaggies As Trade-Off

It must have been an exceedingly strange feeling for Epic, being on the outside looking in at a type of graphics technology they couldn’t quite support in their games when they’ve spent the past decade or so setting the

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Lego Universe Getting Free Trial

We here at Geeky Gadgets love universes since we’ve pretty much been living in one for a while now and it’s working out swimmingly. Probably the only thing we love more is LEGO because… well it’s LEGO alright? Three

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id Kept Rage’s Sewers Out Of Used Copies

The entertainment industry in general and the game industry in particular has been a place where people on both sides of the counter aren’t doing things because, they should, but because they can. Customers shouldn’t pirate games and developers

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New Counter-Strike Game Coming 2012

It’s been a while since Valve has turned its gaze upon one of its best workhorses in the early days of Steam. The Half-Life mod arguably helped make Valve’s digital delivery service what it is today and is still

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Free Nintendo 3DS Games Offer Ends Tonight

We knew ambassadors in war zones tend to be short-lived, but Nintendo’s seem more akin to mayflies at this point. You may be familiar with Nintendo’s massive 3DS price cut meant to push the slow-selling handheld out of the

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Resident Evil’s Paul WS Anderson: Directors Don’t Know Video Games

Much like a Resident Evil zombie, director Paul WS Anderson is turning against his own kind. In keeping with the zombie theme, he asserted that “a lot of video game movies are made by directors who don’t know the

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