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Dimension Drive’s Second Chance

I hadn’t heard of Dimension Drive at all until this morning when I saw this Polygon article, but I’m glad I got a second chance. Dimension Drive is an indie shooter game (a scrolling shooter with a twist – this is not your average galaxian) with a beautiful art style that got screwed on kickstarter in the final hour. This is the game that’s gotten a second chance, and that first troll is getting…

Arcade Block May Unboxing!

This month’s box was pretty exciting – there’s nothing better than getting surprises in the mail once (or twice) a month. Do you subscribe to any other boxes? Nerd block has a bunch of them. Horror, Nerd, Anime and Arcade for starters! There’s a block for everyone :)

Is Skylanders a game worth picking up? Let us know in the comments.

Arcade Block: March Unboxing

My Arcade Block came and I open it up on camera! What a novel concept. I might be am getting a little saturated with t-shirts from all my boxes, so I show you a couple of the things I’m doing with them at the end of this video!

Aside from me not knowing much about Farcry and Street fighter, I was pretty happy with my swag. Did you…

PAX East: A Look into Extreme Exorcism

I was lucky enough to sit down with Mike from Golden Ruby Games to talk about the new(ish) game Extreme Exorcism that’s coming out soon on PS4, Xbox Live & Steam! With all the buzz around the two new ghostbusters movies, why not train yourself and your friends to be the best ghost hunters and weapons experts you can be in this hi-scoring pixel driven haunted game.

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App (kind of) of the Week – Poncho

In the midst of entering the umpteenth contest to get sent to SXSW this year, I signed up for an email service that I had never heard of, and turns out I really love! Enter Poncho, the daily email you get about the weather in your area, personalized for you!

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King of the Nerds: Finale, and actually meeting the King

So when I watched King of the Nerds for the first time at the beginning of this season, I was seriously skeptical – as seen in this post. With any good reality TV show, it manages to keep you coming back for more week after week, and I grew to insanely love my Friday nights, since I’m not popular enough to be doing much else anyway ;).  Last Friday the finale aired, and I decided that not only…

PAX East 2015: The Stuff I Missed

Every year, PAX East has such a wide variety of games to check out and see that you would be hard pressed to try everything. I took a ton of photos so I could remember which games I wanted to check out when I got home, and here’s the lineup of games that I thought looked worthwhile.

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App of the Week: SUPER from Biz Stone

Instagram on steroids? Twitter with pictures? SUPER is twitter co-creator Biz Stone’s new app that lets your speak your mind with a super graphic prompt, a picture and a sign off. Simple, light hearted and fun for someone who wants something a little more substantial than just a filter on a picture, or words without visuals.

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PAX East 2015: Tabletop Review

So Tabletop has had a sincere rise in popularity over the past few years – probably in part to Wil Wheaton’s fabulous YouTube series inspiring folks to get back into analog gaming, but also due to the resurgence of developers who were interested in challenging the market. PAX East this year had a seriously packed tabletop gaming space, even bigger than the one I saw last year. Less booths, but…

PAX East 2015: Panel Review

I recently got back from PAX East in Boston, and between interviewing two up-and-coming games, playing demos, and just walking around to see all of the exhibitors, there’s so much to talk about. I usually try to check out a few panels at every convention, so I highlighted half of the panels I wanted see, and ended up being so busy wandering around the Expo hall that I  just went to two: Heads Up:…

#NVIDIA #SHIELD The Ultimate Living Room Entertainment Device #Gaming #Android #AndroidTV #GRID

NVIDIA is putting the full court press on gaming, not just with their high-powered award-winning PC graphics cards, or even their tablets and handheld gaming devices. They’re now invading the living room with the new NVIDIA SHIELD living room entertainment device.

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Bethesda Softworks Announces Wolfenstein: The Old Blood #xboxone #ps4 #pc #videogames

Following up on the success of Wolfenstein®: The New Order™, Bethesda is releasing a standalone prequel, Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ across Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC’s.

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Arcade Block Unboxing – Feb/Mar?!?

Check it out! I’m opening my mail on camera again! This box was pretty exciting – enjoy looking at all the things you didn’t get!

-Rhi

Lootcrate Unboxing – February

Readers!

Check out this month’s Lootcrate – the theme is gaming, which is exciting and perfect!

Which would you rather play – rock paper scissors or fist bump high five peace sign? Tell us in the comments! (Or rock paper scissors lizard spock)

Google Gearing Up To Take Wallet More Mainstream

After years of seeming like an experiment from Google, it looks like they’ve decided to put more emphasis on the Mobile Payment space and take Google Wallet more mainstream.

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App of the Week: QuizUp

Have you ever been chatting with your friends and gotten onto your favorite topic of all time? Do you know everything there is to know about the Miami Heat? Or maybe your knowledge of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is unparalleled. But sometimes, maybe you just like to test your knowledge on naming famous brand logos and candy bars.

QuizUp is not your typical “Can you name…” buzzfeed quiz. It is an…

When I was a kid, we had this thing called “Computer time” in our elementary school classrooms. Games like Putt Putt, Pajama Sam and Carmen Sandiego were on our computer for us to play with, but only for about a half hour during the day. The best game to play on the computer however, was always Zoombinis. The educational value was there without the overly in-your-face education tactics like games…