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Archive of : 2009

Hold Down E in Borderlands

…And you can pick up a bunch of loot at once, though this will probably only apply if you run a multiple Bloodwing build. At level 50, multiple stacks of $700 to one grand are not uncommon. From each enemy. Plus health. And ammo. Add in a maxed Ransack...

Or are you just happy to see me?

Valve released the Soldier/Demo update about a week ago, adding 35 achievements to both classes, four new Soldier weapons, three new Demo weapons, crafting, two maps, Scout weapon tweaks, and about a bajillion bugs. There were a few server breaking ones but some were just… how...

Backlog: Grand Theft Auto 4

I’ve had a long history with Grand Theft Auto games: I went to two midnight release parties for Vice City and San Andreas and played San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto 4 through to completion with 100% progress. I’ve always loved the series and end up spending way too...

New Blade and Soul Trailer

We have been gifted with another long trailer for Blade & Soul and it’s as gorgeous as the first. This one shows us four races and classes, classes with names translated by a twelve year old boy: Blade Master, Kung Fu Master, Force Master and Destroyer. But...

I am Supremely Suspicious

…that something is amiss with the hat drop rate since the Team Fortress 2 Hallowe’en Special. The Geek Escape has three accounts running almost 24/7 in our Achievement Idle server; since the September 2nd update we’ve been getting around one hat every other day between us. Since Halloween, we’ve gotten...

An Independent Studio Short – Fumiko’s Confession

I came across this 2 1/2 minute anime short in the course of my daily browsing and throughly enjoyed it. While watching it, the old Looney Tunes cartoons came to mind. If nothing else, you can get your daily recommended pantsu. Loose translation:

Backlog: Mass Effect

Since we’ve had this website, there were games that I completed but never really wrote about. I always fully intended to do a write up on each of them, but for one reason or another, didn’t. I would like to do a series of very quick write ups about...

Left 4 Dead 2 “Leaked” Trailer

I was on vacation last week so that’s the excuse I’m using for how I missed this. A “leaked” version of a L4D2 trailer appeared on the web last week. I bet you can’t avoid getting a little excited. Me, I cried… out of happiness.