Fans of the paranormal and unsolved mysteries are sure to be familiar with the story of Dyatlov Pass. Starting in January and continuing through February 1959, a group of 9 hikers set out with a goal to reach Otorten. However, these expert hikers would never reach their location. When the hikers never returned on February …
My job takes me all over the nation. Sometimes I’m chatting with auto-workers in the Great Lakes region, others I’m standing in the plains of southern Oklahoma talking to some fella about oil patch work. With few exceptions, the conversation starts with the decline in skilled labor, circles to the price of metal, before ultimately coming to …
Raw Fury Games, the folks that brought you Kingdom, has announced that they are publishing their third game, GoNNER. It is a 2D platformer that is procedurally-generated, has roguelike elements, and looks beautiful. GoNNER is being developed by Art in Heart, which was founded by programmer, game designer, and artist Ditto. We only know a little bit about GoNNER so far, …
I have never had the competitive spirit. This comes largely from an assumption that no matter how good I got at something, I would never be good enough to hang with the big boys. Because of this truth I had accepted about myself, I never really spent the time to become particularly skilled at any …
Firewatch is a special game that had me feeling more in the first twenty minutes than most games do in their entire run. In it you will explore a story of guilt and isolation, subjects not often explored in the video game genre to satisfying ends. Fortunately, I found Firewatch incredible. I would suggest …
XCOM 2 has a great feature called the “Character Pool” that allows you to import custom characters into your game. Throughout the game your Character Pool characters will just pop up during missions or rewards or even as villains. Honestly, I don’t really know how it works because I haven’t played the “game” part of the …
Should auld podcasts be forgot, and never brought to mind? As we move into the new year, let us remember to look back on our past and learn from it. Today we look back and learn that #NotAllTedBundys are serial killers (probably), Yanni has only one natural predator in the wild, and spelling is important when …
Hello again, all you Geeklies who are fans of Pokémon and/or marriage! Last week Christina Ladd and I began our gender-tagged Pokémon journeys on Pokémon X and Y. This week: a deep dark forest! New Pokémon! And our first gym battle! Harry (Pokémon Y) I ended last article on the steps of Santalune Forest, so that’s …
Hello, Geekly fans! Welcome to a new feature, where a newlywed couple play Pokémon and blog about it. Christina Ladd and I recently acquired copies of Pokémon X and Y (those classic digital representations of the artificial gender binary), and we wanted to invite you all to join us as we discover a new Pokémon world. In …
Whoa momma! Here we are at the final, final episode of Geekly Game Lab – Game of Thrones: The Ice Dragon! It has all led up to this. People die. More people die. Another person, they die. It is Game of Thrones as heck. One story gets a little weird, but all and all this series …