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Guest Geeks: Brittni Williams & the Top 5 Video Game Movies

August 25, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Guest GeeksGuess what time it is! Then again, who cares what time it is, because here’s another Guest Geek post! (People are way too obsessed with this whole space-time continuum thingy we live in anyway.) Today actually combines two features here on Geek Notes: The Guest Geek post—but we already covered that—and the less-frequent geek-related Top 5 List. Today’s guest is Brittni Williams, who’s selected what I think is a rather difficult topic: the Top 5 Best Video Game Movies. That’s a heck of a minefield right there, and let’s be honest, the pickings are pretty slim. Turning video games into movies (and, frankly, vice-versa) has rarely turned out well, and a list like this is sort of like listing the top 5 healthiest foods at McDonald’s. Still, I think Brittni manages to make some good picks out of what’s available, though I differ a little on the details. Yet enough of my blatherskite! Here’s Brittni…

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Guest Geeks, Movies and TV, Top 5 Tagged With: Brittni Williams, Final Fantasy, Games, Geek Interest, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, video game movies

XCOM2: A Look at the Strategic Layer

August 20, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

So the folks over at XCOM.com just tossed up a new video with a look at the strategic side of the upcoming XCOM sequel. Obviously I’m looking forward to this one, or I wouldn’t be talking about it here. I’m a tad bit biased. I’ve played countless hours of XCOM with the Enemy Within expansion–well, technically Steam has counted exactly how many hours, but I’m keeping that triple-digit number a secret–and as far as I’m concerned, November can’t come soon enough.

Here’s the video, for starters… [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming Tagged With: Firaxis, Geek Interest, PC Gaming, strategy, XCOM2

Guest Geeks: Capital Gamer and Twofold Secret

July 7, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Guest GeeksHi everybody, and welcome to another Guest Geek post! Today we’ll delve back onto the gaming world with a Twitter friend of mine in Washington, D.C. (and A Shadow in the Flames fan) who answers to Kelly but is better known as Capital Gamer. She’ll take us into the indie game developer world with a look at Camp Keepalive, which seems to be a fantastic idea for a strategy game, AND an interview with one of the developers. While this is the first time I’ve heard of Camp Keepalive myself, I can vouch for Kelly’s taste in games. She enjoyed XCOM, and introduced me to an awesomely creative puzzle game on Steam called Machinarium. Her interviewee looks to have some pretty good taste himself, and you just can’t go wrong in strategy with Sid Meyer as an influence.
But enough of me wording-around! Time for me to turn it over to my guest…

Camp Keepalive and Q&A with Twofold Secret

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Camp Keepalive, Capital Gamer, game developing, Geek Interest, Joel Haddock, Sid Meyer, Twofold Secret

Guest Geeks: Eric Turowski and the D&D “Satanic Panic”

June 23, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Guest GeeksThe world of role-playing games is widespread these days, with games of every kind, in many different mediums, spanning genres and filling up convention after convention. While stigmas and stereotypes still exist for those who play, player demographics span nearly every age, gender, and class. (Did you know Roger Moore and Vin Diesel were adult Dungeons & Dragons players?) But it wasn’t always so. Like rock & roll before it, tabletop role-playing—and D&D in particular—had some, shall we say, wildly inaccurate perceptions in its early days. Today, Guest Geek Eric Turowski paints us a picture…

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Playing, Reading, Watching

June 4, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

I should really be writing A Dragon at the Gate at the moment. That’s what I sat down here to do. Yet it’s been a long day, my brain is frazzled, and so it’s revolting and craving leisure. So in an attempt to placate my lazy-ass brain while at the same time at least appearing to get something done, I’m going to take a cue from the Geek Bomb podcast folks (who were good enough to have me on their show last fall) and geek out with you a little over what I’m playing, reading, and watching. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Movies and TV Tagged With: Galactic Civilizations III, Game of Thrones, Geek Interest, Magicka 2, Reading, Snow Crash, The Almighty Johnsons, Wasteland 2, Zombeavers

Guest Geeks: Camela Thompson and Gaming

May 5, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 3 Comments

It’s not an advance screening of Star Wars VII, but it’s the next best thing: another Guest Geek post! This time around my guest is my friend, geek, and fellow author Camela Thompson. She’s got geek-cred on multiple levels (she introduced me to The Strain, for one), and today she’s going to talk about growing up—and continuing to be—a female gamer. Before I turn it over to Camela, however, a quick plug: She and I will be doing a joint event at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA on May 28th. If you like cyberpunk and non-sparkling vampires, come by, say hi, and listen to us read!

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Okay, enough of my yammering…

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming, Guest Geeks Tagged With: Blood Spirit and Bone, Camela Thompson, Games, Geek Interest, GTA, Skyrim, Third Place Books, Tribes, women gamers

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

April 9, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Square-Enix, Eidos-Montreal)The Deus Ex franchise is back!

Or, at least, it’s coming back. Eidos-Montreal has made it official with the first game trailer (scroll down to view it), and a GameInformer exclusive: Get ready for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

I honestly didn’t think we’d be getting another game in this series. Foolish me didn’t think there was room for more to go between the ending(s) of Adam Jensen’s story in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the story of J.C. Denton in the original, but I underestimated the influence of an interested market and the lure of additional gamer-dollars.

This is not a complaint! The original Deus Ex is one of my favorite games of all time, and Human Revolution gave us a prequel that updated the series (and gameplay) for the current generation. (We won’t speak of DX: Invisible War, the New Coke of the series.) Human Revolution didn’t quite capture the greatness of the original, yet it was still a (mostly) excellent game despite its flaws, and worth the long wait. I’m excited to see what they’ve got for Mankind Divided.

Reportedly, Mankind Divided (I’m not crazy about that name, but oh well) takes place two years following the events of Human Revolution, with the canon ending apparently being one where everyone augmented went violent and berserk. Jensen is now with an organization linked with Interpol, apparently dealing with cyborg terrorists. Will we see some of the events alluded to in Deus Ex? (Will the Statue of Liberty get its head blown off? Will UNATCO be formed? Will Bob Page return?

WILL WE GET LEMON-LIME WHEN WE WANTED ORANGE?!

WILL WE GET LEMON-LIME WHEN WE WANTED ORANGE?!

I guess we’ll find out. Eidos has apparently stated that they’ve learned from HR’s mistakes, especially with regard to boss fights. (Why they ever thought farming them out to another studio completely unrelated to the rest of the game was a good idea, perhaps we’ll never really know.) I’ll be waiting for this one, folks. Have a look at the trailer:

Geez, another upcoming game I need to play? I’m going to need more free time.

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaming Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Deus Ex, Eidos-Montreal, Games, Geek Interest, Mankind Divided

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