Gaming posts

Do I really need to explain the sheer amazement that occurs when a video game meets a popular stunting sport? Okay, perhaps I do. This video will show you what an in real life Assassin’s Creed character would look like doing parkour. …

Gamers are kind of getting tired of having to remain in one place whether it is in front of the television or the PC, yes even including laptops (since who wants to lug those around?). Mobility even when you get the gaming itch is necessary since we gamers like to play anywhere. …

Okay so the “Gangnam Style” video was a big hit and now it is a global sensation, sure the dance moves are kind of neat and the choreography is being taught by many dance teachers I am sure, there is one move that would have made it more epic, if it was made to look like as old school game. …

We all hear the hype of people on Facebook complaining about game notifications, Farmville in particular, even memes have been made surrounding this very topic. However, someone has got to be playing it right? I guess so, since the game has 3,200,000 daily active users. …

There are so many Angry Bird fanatics out there and admittedly I am taken by the game as well, so much so I now see many angry birds more so than ever before. …

Every now and then you come across a spark of magic. Children propose the best types of magic since their minds are fresh with imagination and when their creativity ignites it can be powerful.  As with Caine’s story, a 9-year old who loved arcades so much that he decided to create his very own in his dad’s auto body shop, cleverly designed out of boxes. …

We all have played the memory game growing up, you know, the card game where you have to flip to find the matching one. There have been many versions of this game based on memory and in fact even Nintendo has incorporated it in their Brain Age editions that will show your true brain age by doing various skillful short games. Keeping your memory sharp has been proven to actually make you smarter according to a study done by Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences repetition improves your IQ and actually makes you smarter by simply doing brain exercises. …

I did a bad thing the other day. My son showed me a video (below) of an enhanced variation of Skyrim, the popular video game that has kids and adults alike addicted to a strange fantasy world. It isn’t just the nearly-unlimited potential that the game offers to players. It’s also the amazing graphics, and the ones enhanced in the video below fooled even my Facebook friends. We took a screenshot and posted it on Facebook and Google+. I wanted to see if anyone would notice that the image (the one above) was computer generated rather than a real photograph. If anyone noticed, they didn’t call me out. In fact,…

  For any true hardcore retro gamer, the love of the game goes far beyond the stretch of a console. As a gamer you want to surround yourself with items that remind you of favorite past games, levels that you awesomely beat and reminders of unforgettable characters everywhere you turn. You don’t have to always wait to Game Get to be around your most loved games. Here are 5  gotta have gifts for retro gamers. …

From August 16th to 19th, I attended Gen Con, a hobby game convention held in the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. The four-day convention was attended by over 41,000 unique individuals this year, which marked its most successful year to date. Started in 1967, Gen Con is one of the world’s first gaming conventions. Unlike the NY and CA Comic Cons, or E3, Gen Con is mainly focused on tabletop games, like Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and board games like Settlers of Catan. Attendance numbers for Gen Con peaked in the mid-90s at around 30,000 unique visitors,…