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Champions Online Beta: Game at a glance

On August 17th, 2009, Cryptic Studios opened the doors--kinda--for a lucky few thousand to kinda open beta test their game, Champions Online. Your loyal geekatrons, Shawn and Mel, have their hands on this game and are beta testing it right now. With the NDA lifted, we're free to talk about it as we so want. It's only been a day though, not much time to form an opinion. What do we think at a glance? Let us tell you!

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Pinkopalypse

When it comes to computers, there are pink components, and there are good components, but there are scant few good pink components. While for most geeks this is not a problem, for me it is as the better half loves the color pink. So, in addition to doing every odd job I could think of to fill my time, I decided to right a serious geek wrong and make the pink computer I know she wants.

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Gaming Sadness

There is always a period in every year where there are basically no major releases in PC and console gaming. When you’re like me and don’t care about first person shooters and sports games, the gap is even more noticeable. Even so, there is usually at least one title that is halfway decent in the [...]

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SWGemu, and why I think it’s worth it.

You mention Star Wars: Galaxies on a PC gaming forum and you can be pretty sure of certain reactions. One camp will roll their eyes and post, “not again. Let it rest.” One camp will come along with the, “yeah, it’s a shame what they did to the game after CU and NGE, but I [...]

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