Happy New Year from Art of Geek!

Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2010! 2009 was a rough year for me, so I have high hopes for 2010. Probably has a lot to do with “2010: The Year We Make Contact” being one of my favourite sci-fi movies. Really enjoyed the book [...]

Resistance 2’s finale is EPIC, says I

I finished Resistance 2 for Playstation 3 a few days ago. Not a bad shooter at all, just as good as the first one in terms of overall enjoyment and gameplay, and on some levels much improved. The CG cutscenes are far and away much more immersive and exciting than the voiceover still image [...]

Too many games, too little time (and money)

I got my PlayStation 3 during launch week back in November of 2006. There were a couple of good launch titles which kept me occupied well enough during the 2006 holidays (Resistance: Fall Of Man and Call of Duty 3 come to mind), but if it wasn’t for Rainbow Six Vegas and Oblivion, much [...]

Futureshop.ca game pre-orders are a scam [Update 1]

[Update 1] Given the difficulty I had securing a PLAYSTATION 3 on launch weekend back in 2006, I got in the habit of pre-ordering popular PS3 games from Futureshop.ca months in advance as a security precaution in case they were in short supply come launch day.

So far this hasn’t really been worth it, because there [...]

This is what it sounds like when a console dies [Update 4]

DualShock 3 controller initial impressions

Yesterday news broke that the Sony DualShock 3 controller for the PS3 had been spotted at big box retailers stateside. After reading the news, I proceeded to check the store stock for local Best Buy and Future Shop stores to see if they were in Canada too. Future Shop didn’t have them, but [...]