Your Neighborhood Geek

03/17/2013

Hey everyone, the Geek here. Sorry for the lack of posts; the life of a geek is a busy one.

Hope you've had a good and safe St. Patrick's Day. Here's some info on how technology is making it's way into pubs:

http://www.connectedworldmag.com/latestNews.aspx?id=NEWS130315124311700

A new craze is hitting pubs all across the country—self-serve beer and wine stations. As consumers are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend, M2M technology will allow some bar patrons to stop spending so much time in lines waiting for beverages and instead grab a drink from a beer station.

11/07/2012

Everything's better on PC.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/11/06/star-citizen-dev-thinks-next-gen-consoles-still-wont-match-pcs/

While it’s widely acknowledged that current consoles don’t stand a chance next to modern PCs, Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts believes even the next generation of consoles won’t match the horsepower of top-of-the-line home computers. Speaking with Ars Technica, Roberts explained that Star Citizen...

08/14/2012

Diablo 3 Starter Edition now free to play.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6939568/

The demonically-besieged world of Sanctuary needs heroes. Now you can join in the apocalyptic battle for FREE via the all-new Diablo® III Starter Edition. Available exclusively via Battle.net®, the Starter Edition allows you to fight your way up to the Skeleton King boss in Act I, and advance all ...

08/11/2012

Checkout "Today's Deal" on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/38720/

From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor b...

08/11/2012

The Geek found an early review of Nvidia's GTX 660 Ti 2GB Reference Video Card Overclocked, enjoy.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4869/nvidia_geforce_gtx_660_ti_2gb_reference_video_card_review/index.html

We don't know when it's officially coming because NVIDIA don't talk to us, but we've got the new GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti 2GB video card in our hot little hands to tell you all about right now.

05/24/2012

It's the Geeks Diablo 3 Guest Pass Giveaway. Just let the geek know you would like to be entered for a chance to win the drawing on May 31.

05/07/2012

Maintenance Monday scan for viruses and do those system updates.

05/01/2012

It's May Day -- and time for a Clean Sweep! Run your defragment and disc clean-up programs for a "healthy" start to the month.

05/01/2012

Maintenance Monday people.

04/26/2012

Nvidia Tgra 3, the way its ment to be played.

Ever had one of those nightmares from which you couldn’t wake up? You twist and turn through narrow halls facing unimaginable horrors, hoping only to wake up from this terrifying phantasm. Only this is no nightmare, it’s all too real. That’s how it goes in the latest Tegra 3 gaming title, Dark Meado...

04/25/2012

Can't wait to see 7990 vs GTX 690 Benchmark Tests.

Word has come out that AMD isn't planning to unveil its dual-GPU based Radeon HD 7990 "New Zealand" SKU until early June (at Computex in Taipei which kicks off on June 5), this despite NVIDIA pulling the trigger on its GeForce GTX 690 later in the week.

04/23/2012

Age of Conan rules.

Massively