The Bling Ring Review
In 2008 a group of obnoxious, privileged L.A. teenagers decided that living so close to the rich and famous wasn’t enough, so they broke into their houses and took what they wanted to that they too could live the glamorous lifestyle. After more burglaries than you would ever expect, the group was eventually discovered and [...]
Deadpool Hands-On Preview
You know why you should be excited for Deadpool at this point, but we’ve gotten hands on with High Moon’s ode to the Merc with a Mouth and if you’ve been feeling some trepidation, you should know that those feelings are dumb and Wade Wilson is here to kick your ass until you stop acting [...]
Top 5 Reasons to be Excited for Deadpool
If you’re not familiar with the Marvel comic universe, your experience with Deadpool is severely lacking and this game looks to make up for that fact. Besides the atrocious handling of his appearance in the equally terrible X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the game and film appearances have been good, but ultimately lacking for a character this [...]
This Is The End Review
Just as what happened in the late 90s with Deep Impact and Armageddon, Dante’s Peak and Volcano, and countless other movie pairs, 2013 is seeing its share of near identical movies coming out, starting with Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down and now This Is The End and The World’s End. While we have [...]
The Internship Review
So Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are two schlubby guys who manage to somehow get an internship at Google and now they have to compete against some of the greatest minds for the chance to work at one of the best companies in the world. Hilarity ensues. I went into The Internship not expecting a [...]
Game of Thrones: Ascent Interview with Jon Radoff
What do you do when you’re a game developer who doesn’t see the type of games they want to play on a platform? You make them yourself. Jon Radoff, the CEO of Disruptor Beam, did exactly that. He looked at the state of Facebook games, with its endless stream of Farmvilles or games that are [...]
In the Lab with Frima’s Vincent Martel
Have you ever wanted to blast demons apart as a gun toting nun? Nun Attack let’s you do just that and in glorious, turn based RPG action. Frima’s Vincent Martel, the producer behind Nun Attack, joins us in the Geekenstein labs to talk about making a game based on such a ridiculous concept.
Weekly Webcomic Wrap-Up 6/2/13
Welcome to the first installment of the Weekly Webcomic Wrap-Up. While we create a header image allow one of this week’s selection from Kris Straub’s Chainsawsuit to entertain you. There was just something about being mocked by the people whose sole job is to create laughter that made me smile. If you haven’t [...]
In the Lab with Vellum Interactive’s Brian Reinhart
There are two things the mobile market is positively flooded with, city building time sinks and puzzle games. Telekinesis Kyle puts you in the shoes of a small boy gifted with telekinetic powers who must escape from a secret mountaintop base. It takes a special title to stand out above the crushing waves of either [...]
In the Lab with Zen’s Mel Kirk and Neil Sorens
Sometimes all you need is a little information to understand why something is great. Up until I had the chance to talk with Zen Studios’s Mel Kirk and Neil Sorens, I enjoyed Zen Pinball HD, but I didn’t appreciate what it was doing. Zen Studios is putting out the best digital pinball tables on the [...]
