The final bell has tolled, the curtain’s been called, the…ending metaphor has been exhausted, and the once-great name in gaming that is THQ is no more. If you’ve been following the stories in the news for the past week you’ll likely know as much as I do as to how it all carved out, but I’ll give you all a...
Last Pick Productions Begs to Differ in the Streets of Vancouver
Another local group who have a long history of creating great games in this fair city of ours. Last Pick Productions is the new mind beast from Chris Worboys, Simon Roscoe, and Jeunessa Cheng. It seems as if they’re trying to make a statement right out of the gate. In a time where our consoles and cell phones are draped in overly...
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!
Mass Effect Movie to be Based on the First Game, With the Script Already Written
I’m waiting for the day when a video game movie comes out that does for our genre what Spiderman did for the comic book film world. While thankfully everyone’s favourite German boxer Uwe Boll seems to have gotten out of the video game film industry, there still hasn’t been a single good or even passable movie based on a game...
EA (Kind of?) Announces Battlefield 4
Battlefield 3 was one of EA’s biggest tent-pole releases last year, with a little over two million sales worldwide, as well as numerous accolades from the game critique crowd. So it was a foregone conclusion that another Battlefield title would be put into development, that we’d hear about its announcement in a huge splashy Game Informer cover, and promptly proceed...
Metal Gear Solid 5 Screenshots Displayed at San Diego Comic Con *DEBUNKED*
*UPDATE* Konami UK has proven the MGS 5 screenshots were a hoax. I’d feel duped, but I wanted so badly for it to be real that I let my optimism run away with me. Oh well, it was a pleasant couple of hours. I’ll leave the original article unaltered, because I find my blind optimism endearing, and I hope you...
Deadpool franchise announced at SDCC
High Moon studios dropped an awesome bomb at San Diego Comic-Con, announcing a Deadpool video game in the vein of the Wolverine solo action titles. There are a lot of great feelings inside of this guy upon watching the announcement trailer for Deadpool. He’s never taken very seriously because of his hilarious nature, and overly wicked style of fighting. But the character depth is...
Rockstar Vancouver is Closing its Doors
It’s been a really hard couple of weeks for the Vancouver gaming scene. A few scant weeks ago our fair city lost one of its premier development houses with the closing of Radical Entertainment’s doors, and now less than two weeks later one of the most high-profile names in town, Rockstar Vancouver, are also shutting their doors. The developers of...
Introducing the “Ouya”, a $99 Console that wants to Change the Industry
While many in the video game industry have been waiting patiently for announcements regarding Microsoft or Sony‘s new console, a curve ball’s been recently thrown into the ring, one that looks to…fumble the Big Three’s…field goal? That was a solid sports metaphor, right? Called the “Ouya” (which without fact-checking I’m assuming and shall henceforth pronounce solely as “Oh-Yah!”), this $99...
Radical Entertainment is Shutting its Doors [UPDATE]
The last twitter update from Radical Entertainment, just nine hours ago, reads “Did you know that we have a Radical Facebook page? http://ow.ly/bz5kC Head over NOW & LIKE it for a behind-the-scenes look at our studio! ” which would make the rest of what I’m about to say almost comical if it wasn’t so depressing. Announced by Kotaku earlier today,...
Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut has Been Released, but Does it Solve the Game’s Ending? *Spoilers*
I made it a daily game in early April to trawl through various gaming forums, reading the constant, vocal, and in some ways almost creative outcries against Bioware and its perceived mangling of the ending of what was supposed to be the preeminent trilogy of this console generation. While it’s generally ridiculous to expect anything but angry noise from the...
My OTHER Me set to open the eyes of the Ignorant & Anti-Geeky.
Living in a world of geek-dom, I’ve come across a lot of hate and judgement. However for those judges, I have little care as to their insight on my way of life and interested. One of the biggest misconceptions in our culture is the lives touched by Cosplay. The act of Cosplay is a lifestyle in which people can become something or...
Remember that 3DS Hardware Revision That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen? It’ll be Out in August
Well that didn’t take long, did it? As many of you may recall, Nintendo boss Shigeru Miyamoto stated in an interview with IGN that there wouldn’t be a hardware update for the 3DS. It was a common refrain among potential 3DS buyers that they’d just “wait for the 3DS Lite,” and it seems Miyamoto wanted to put those rumors to...
The Lingerie Football League is Getting a Video Game
And you people thought video games were misogynistic. Boy, I bet you all must feel silly now, huh. Announced earlier this week, and straight from the “I have to laugh because otherwise I’m going to cry” news bag, game developer Yuke’s (known for the creation of such luminary titles as WWE 13 and Rumble Roses, which I believe is one...
Microsoft Surface Pro: LAN Party Superstar?
As you may have heard, Microsoft has just announced a new Windows 8 tablet to compete with the iPad. Called the Microsoft Surface, it’s the first time Microsoft has really gone all-in on a first-party hardware project in awhile (since the Xbox, really, unless you want to count Zune) so people are pretty excited. As a replacement for the current iPad,...
Gamersbook Giveaway: CS:GO Beta Keys, Death Adder Razer Mouse.
The awesome guys at Valve sent us more Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta keys for you guys and galls, but this time you will also get a chance to win the awesome Razer Deathadder mouse that is specially designed for FPS games. In total, there are 20 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta keys and 3 Razer Deathadder mouses. In order to be eligible to win those prizes, the...
Gamersbook Giveaway: Dota 2 Beta & Sapphire Products
Our new friends at Gamersbook bring the gaming community together in a unique and fantastic way. They also have huge give-aways on their site and bring you (the gamers) some of the best games and products our pretty little industry has. This week’s give-away is for Dota 2 Beta keys, or a Sapphire product. Prizes include: Dota...
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...
Honor & Shame: E3 2012
In our latest feature, We will be taking one subject and highlight the best and the worst of said concept. With this week being the big thunderous E3 week, we want to choose what games we thought had the high point, and the low point of the show. Watch_Dogs The new title from Ubisoft boasts what I assume is all...
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,...