Category Archives: Geekery

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Caine’s Arcade gets Flashmobbed

I intended to post info about Mass Effect 3’s Resurgence pack today but I saw this video and thought it just HAD to be shown. 9 year old Caine Monroy, built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store. Caine’s first Fun Pass customer helps organize the best day of his life. […]

 

Kinect Powered Shopping Cart

Texas based Chaotic Moon is developing a “Smarter Cart” for Whole Foods. This awesome new shopping cart utilizes a tablet and Kinect scanner to keep track of the items you put in the cart, see if they’re on your shopping list, AND handles the check-out process for you! I’m gonna let that sink in until […]

 

MEGACON!!!

Every time I hear, say, or see MEGACON… I hear it in the voice from the radio commercials… If you haven’t heard it, you’re missing it. Penny Arcade needs to get that guy on their shit. I can hear it now… PENNY ARCADE EXPO *echos* This year was my first visit to MegaCon. I volunteered […]

 

DIY Arcade

by Ryokea in Geekery

Ryo here, this will be the first post of a very sporadic series of updates about a personal project I intend to undertake. The idea behind it is I have always wanted to own an arcade cabinet since I was a kid playing Joust and Galaga. That dream is still alive, just much more toned […]

 

PAX Prime 2011: Day 3

Last day of PAX. Our plan was to wake up early and catch the Halo 4 presentation at Halo Fest (which started at 10am). Plans fail. Especially that one. We got up… buuuut we hated the idea of walking there that early in the morning. Fortunately for us, they were streaming it live on IGN. […]

 

PAX Prime 2011: Day 1

I realize this post is coming in kind of late, but please keep in mind it’s meant to be a recounting of our experience and not necessarily reporting or coverage of PAX itself. So many of you may know that we had a close call with us making it to PAX this year. First thing […]