There are days where normal society deems that we will succeed with greater furver if you hide our geekiness, or just quel it enough to pass through unnoticed. These days are the ones I have deemed “Sucky days”. Vancouver is still a baby when it comes to celebrating our geeks, our gamers, and our nerds. But the intention is strong...
Round-Up: Playstation 4 Event
Hey guys! Like many others, I was glued to my stream of the Playstation event from Sony last night. A lot of things were brought to the table, and a lot of things were completely brushed over. I’m going to go through all of the biggest announcements and ghosts from the event and rate each one in a score that...
CoV Plug: IPL San Francisco Showdown Replay
Head on over to our little brother League of Legends site and check out their new post! http://cofv.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/the-replay-ipl-san-francisco-showdown/ Thanks!
Let’s Change Vancouver’s Video Game Community Forever – Fight the LCLB
We here at Geek Badge have been engrained into the video game community for as long as we can remember. Vancouver is a beautiful place for both development and talent. A long-time acquaintance of Geek Badge, Brian “Danger” Vidovic, has been working on making our city a premier place for us. His project, EXP Restaurant & Bar is set to change the...
E3 2012: The Nintendo Conference
It’s to be expected, I suppose, that since this is the year of Nintendo’s next hardware launch that we’re not going to get a conference chock full of new first-party announcements. In an interview soon after the conference Reggie Fils-Aime himself even said that the focus of Nintendo’s press conference was less about big titles coming in the distant future,...
E3 2012: Nintendo Press Conference Live-Blog
This event is now OVER. Please feel free to read through the news as it broke, and comment on the article.
E3 2012: The Sony Conference
Sony, as they are often want to do, had themselves a press conference today. And the fact that now moments after its conclusion I’m looking through my notes to see what was discussed can only really tell me that there wasn’t too much to get excited over. There were a couple of announcements, some potentially novel new gaming ideas, and...
E3 2012: The Ubisoft Conference
It was at about the moment where they showed off Rayman: Legends, their third of three games they had brought out at the press conference that made me say “Damn I want that game” when I realized that Ubisoft was having hands-down the best conference of the day. I don’t know what’s going on. Everything’s turned upside-down. The list of...
E3 2012: Sony Press Conference Live-Blog
This event is now OVER. Please feel free to read through the news as it broke, and comment on the article.
E3 2012: The EA Conference
It’s slowly dawning on me that this may be the E3 year that’s not about games or hardware. Gaming is now a service industry, with platforms and software coming in secondarily to that all-important, ever-financially-viable service provision. And no one seems to be as on this as EA. While there were some interesting games shown, it felt like everything else...
E3 2012: Ubisoft Press Conference Live-Blog
This event is now OVER. Please feel free to read through the news as it broke, and comment on the article.
E3 2012: Electronic Arts “The Download” Live-Blog
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E3 2012: Xbox “Entertainment Evolved” Live-Blog
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Wizards, Storm Troopers, and Hip-Hop Iron Men – My First Experience with a Comic Convention at Vancouver’s Fan Expo
It was the moment I saw the line-up for Fan Expo going around the block outside of the convention centre that I knew geekdom was a big deal in our fair city of Vancouver. Overhearing from the Expo’s staff and volunteers that they had been expecting an audience of around 20,000 people, only to open the gates Saturday morning to...
The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses.
Of all things gaming that reside close to my heart, the Legend of Zelda series bodes the most ownership of property. We recently attended the epic 25th anniversary tour of the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses performance. The tour kicked off in front of an astounded crowd at last years E3, to the amazement of everyone else around the world...
EA Announces New Swedish Game Studio, EA Gothenburg
Announced yesterday at the 2012 Game Developer’s Conference, the giant that is Electronic Arts is growing yet another arm, this time in the ominous-sounding (though admittedly very pretty) Swedish city of Gothenburg. This will mark the second EA studio in the nordic country, alongside EADICE. Though no concrete details on what EA Gothenburg is or will be working on first...
VFS Game Design Expo 2012
For those of you not in the know, the Vancouver Film School holds an annual event called the Game Design Expo to give potential game design students a chance to rub elbows and learn from some of the biggest names in video games. The undertone in the event is to drive up the enrollment in their game design program, but this...