http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/-t1.htm With the help of the all seeing eye the ÜberGeek watches over things both cinematic and graphical. Beware kiddies, contents of this forum are under extreme pressure! Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:35:15 GMT 10 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e96/i-eat-fireworks/TGB/gamerboardsnewban.png http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/-t1.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-rise-of-the-eldrazi-t1247.htm Alcatraz Magic the Gathering: Rise of the Eldrazi Third Installment of the Zendikar Series Release Date April 23, 2010 The Eldrazi have returned "And Carnage Shall Follow". The shear brutality of the Eldrazi is unleashed upon the world as the Planeswalkers, Vampires, Goblins, and other warring races try to put it down. With new abilities like 'annihilator' we will tremble in fear as the very heart of our resources we must sacrifice to quell the Eldrazi beast. Can the power of your armies ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:35:15 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-rise-of-the-eldrazi-t1247.htm#7567 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-rise-of-the-eldrazi-t1247.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-endless-ocean-blue-world-t1229.htm J1NX You may think that a game like Endless Ocean: Blue World won't appeal to you at all. The first Endless Ocean was a glorified diving simulator which led some people to complain that it wasn't a game at all. I was right there with you guys; I could barely muster up the interest to slip the disc into my Wii. A title centered on diving was so out of my gaming wheelhouse that I thought I'd hate every blue-tinted minute of it. I don't even like seafood. I was wrong. Let me put it in game ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:47:22 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-endless-ocean-blue-world-t1229.htm#7520 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-endless-ocean-blue-world-t1229.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-worldwake-t1167.htm Alcatraz Magic the Gathering: Worldwake Second Installment of the Zendikar Series Released February 5, 2010 In Worldwake, we finally see "A World Enraged" as the land itself takes up arms to fight back the ever growing strength of the warring factions.Once again we fall before the brute strength of the landfall ability as we are pushed to the very edge against all shapes and sizes of creatures. Death defying krakens, land-rich elementals, blood-thirsty vampires, and war-hungry kazuul all fight ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:33:22 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-worldwake-t1167.htm#7261 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/magic-the-gathering-worldwake-t1167.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-aliens-vs-predator-t1225.htm J1NX I have to admit that I've been struggling with how to review this game. With some games, you can immediately say "it's good" or "it's bad." Aliens vs. Predator, however, is not one of those games. It's tempting to lay out the elements of the game, measure them against how well other games do similar things and then determine a score based on the difference. Many other sites review their games in just this way, based on things like graphics (they suck), story (meh), voice acting (heard ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:56:51 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-aliens-vs-predator-t1225.htm#7509 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-aliens-vs-predator-t1225.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-dante-s-inferno-t1221.htm J1NX When I first heard about Dante's Inferno, I was like, "What the hell? I had to read that in college. How are they making a game about it?" Then when publicity stunt after stunt was pulled, I figured that the game must have sucked and that EA was compensating by throwing lots of marketing money at it. I was convinced that there was no way the designers at Visceral Games could make a playable game out of some 14th century Italian literature and, if they did, it wouldn't be very good. Well, ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:58:20 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-dante-s-inferno-t1221.htm#7503 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/review-dante-s-inferno-t1221.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/preview-starcraft-ii-t1219.htm J1NX If you have ever spent any length of time with Blizzard's seminal 1998 RTS StarCraft, then the first time you sit down to a game of StarCraft II will feel like greeting an old friend all over again. Your friend may be older and wiser, he may have learned a few new tricks and may have changed over the years since you last saw him, but he's still unmistakably the same person he was an age and a half ago. There is no mistake: This is StarCraft. I have put hours upon hours into the StarCraft ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:30:58 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/preview-starcraft-ii-t1219.htm#7498 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/preview-starcraft-ii-t1219.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/chuck-norris-botnet-uses-fists-to-break-routers-t1216.htm J1NX A botnet named after Chuck Norris has been using roundhouse kicks and password guessing to take control of your router, and steal your girlfriend. Researchers in the Czech Republic have discovered a piece of malware that has been taking control of routers with the Linux operating system. Masaryk University's Institute of Computer Science in Brno, Czech Republic, dubbed the malware and its botnet after the American martial artist because of a line of code in it which reads, "in nome di Chuck ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:32:06 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/chuck-norris-botnet-uses-fists-to-break-routers-t1216.htm#7489 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/chuck-norris-botnet-uses-fists-to-break-routers-t1216.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/bioshock-2-pc-review-t1207.htm J1NX Does Bioshock 2 live up to expectations? Bioshock, a first person shooter RPG from 2K Games, was released in August of 2007 on the Xbox 360 and PC to critical and commercial success. 2K Marin aims to take that success to a new level with Bioshock 2. To this end, they dramatically stepped up the polish of the game and have obviously addressed many of the criticisms Bioshock received as a first person shooter. Bioshock 2 takes place 10 years after the original game ends. The main ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:04:00 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/bioshock-2-pc-review-t1207.htm#7440 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/bioshock-2-pc-review-t1207.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/molyneux-confirms-new-continent-and-new-race-in-fable-iii-t1206.htm J1NX Peter Molyneux has confirmed to IncGamers that there will be a whole new continent in Fable 3. Speaking in an interview with IncGamers at the X10 eventin San Francisco last week, Molyneux said the new continent will be accessible from the world of Albion. This will be the first time the Fable series will come out of the continent of Albion. We asked Molyneux what exactly would populate the continent of Arora and whether it would feature a new race, to which he responded "yes, it will have ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:42:43 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/molyneux-confirms-new-continent-and-new-race-in-fable-iii-t1206.htm#7439 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/molyneux-confirms-new-continent-and-new-race-in-fable-iii-t1206.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/firefox-40-gui-evolution-get-a-taste-t1195.htm J1NX Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches have been already published. However, Firefox 4.0 developer Stephen Horlander has now offered two video demonstrations featuring Firefox 4.0’s ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:18:51 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/firefox-40-gui-evolution-get-a-taste-t1195.htm#7412 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/firefox-40-gui-evolution-get-a-taste-t1195.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/leak-windows-8-will-be-completely-different-from-what-users-usually-expect-of-windows-t1194.htm J1NX Even before the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft was hard at work planning the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms. But even though the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred to, even by Microsoft’s own employees, under the codename Windows 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not sharing any details on the release with the public. The silence continues even at this point in time, when the first reports indicating that Microsoft has actually kicked off the development ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:03:40 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/leak-windows-8-will-be-completely-different-from-what-users-usually-expect-of-windows-t1194.htm#7411 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/leak-windows-8-will-be-completely-different-from-what-users-usually-expect-of-windows-t1194.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/mistwalker-s-new-game-revealed-t1175.htm J1NX Mistwalker has finally unveiled their new project, The Last Story. After much speculation regarding what Mistwalker has been teasing the past few months, the game has been confirmed for the Wii. Nintendo and Mistwalker have yet to share many details, but the game is an RPG and will be released in Japan this year. You can check out the game’s official site here. Theme of universal feelings held by peopleCo-developed by Mistwalker and NintendoGoal is to create a new type of RPGDeveloper blog ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:36:28 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/mistwalker-s-new-game-revealed-t1175.htm#7322 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/mistwalker-s-new-game-revealed-t1175.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/no-more-heroes-2-cutscene-has-nude-transformations-t1174.htm J1NX No More Heroes on the Nintendo Wii was just full of moments you wouldn't want children to see and/or know of, like simulating masturbation on the Wii Remote to power up your in-game LightSaber or the fact that Travis Touchdown is driven to kill off the worlds best assassins because he was told he would get some in the end.Now here comes No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle on the Wii. This game has it's moments but the one that screams for attention "right now" is a unlockable intro to Travis's ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:15:46 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/no-more-heroes-2-cutscene-has-nude-transformations-t1174.htm#7321 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/no-more-heroes-2-cutscene-has-nude-transformations-t1174.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/twisted-trailer-coming-for-jaffe-s-next-game-t1169.htm J1NX Eat Sleep Play, a small, independent games company spearheaded by the infamous developer and God of War creator David Jaffe, has been teasing its second game, out of a three game exclusive deal with Sony, for some time. Although it is heavily rumored to be a Twisted Metal game, very little has actually been announced about the title, despite Jaffe’s talkative reputation. However, this may all be set to change, as, according to a tweet from Eat Sleep Play’s official twitter page, an exciting ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:35:06 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/twisted-trailer-coming-for-jaffe-s-next-game-t1169.htm#7265 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/twisted-trailer-coming-for-jaffe-s-next-game-t1169.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/the-real-reason-bad-company-2-beta-didn-t-come-to-360-t1161.htm J1NX Earlier this month DICE producer Gordon Van Dyke said that the reason the beta of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 didn't come to Xbox 360 was because it 'didn't work out for the Xbox 360' due to legal stuff and logistics. However, the games senior producer, Patrick Bach has given a different explanation as to why it was a PS3 exclusive. In an interview with French site XboxMag360, Bach said; "We had made an exclusive on Xbox 360 for the first Battlefield: Bad Company and we had lots of negative ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:28:09 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/the-real-reason-bad-company-2-beta-didn-t-come-to-360-t1161.htm#7229 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/the-real-reason-bad-company-2-beta-didn-t-come-to-360-t1161.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/dungeons-dragons-player-s-handbook-3-coming-march-2010-t1160.htm J1NX Player's Handbook 3 D&D Rules Supplement Mike Mearls, Rob Heinsoo, and Robert J. Schwalb Rules for psionic, divine, and primal heroes, Player's Handbook 3 expands the range of options available to D&D players with new classes, races, powers, and other material.This book builds on the array of classes and races presented in the Player's Handbook and Player's Handbook 2 core rulebooks, presenting old favorites and new, never-before-seen options to the game. Player's Handbook 3 also adds ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:20:07 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/dungeons-dragons-player-s-handbook-3-coming-march-2010-t1160.htm#7228 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/dungeons-dragons-player-s-handbook-3-coming-march-2010-t1160.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/blizzard-s-morhaime-plays-down-wow-sequel-plans-t1146.htm J1NX Blizzard are not eager to begin development on a full sequel to World Of Warcraft, the studio has confirmed. Company president Mike Morhaime said that the studio's current business strategy is to avoid making long-term plans, citing rapid changes the industry is experiencing. "We really don't have World of Warcraft planned out five or ten years," he said. "We have it planned through our next expansion and we have ideas for what should come after that, but nothing is really ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:12:32 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/blizzard-s-morhaime-plays-down-wow-sequel-plans-t1146.htm#7135 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/blizzard-s-morhaime-plays-down-wow-sequel-plans-t1146.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/force-unleashed-ii-t1095.htm Darth_Kitsune The world's coolest Jedi, Samuel L. Jackson (suck it, Yoda) has just taken the stage at the 2009 Video Game Awards to reveal Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. In the announcement trailer -- Darth Vader's once apprentice -- codenamed "Starkiller" steps into a dark arena only to be faced with a creature hellbent on his destruction. Thankfully, Starkiller -- armed with two light sabers -- pounces to attack the gargantuan foe. Sadly, it was all CG, but we'll take any new Force Unleashed ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:02:49 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/force-unleashed-ii-t1095.htm#6840 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/force-unleashed-ii-t1095.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day-t1091.htm J1NX Rating: Review: The much awaited return of the MacManus brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery & Norman Reedus) was carried on a whisper, but received with a roar as fans saw once again the boys they had grown attached to carry out their god given abilities to clean the streets of filth that should have run into the gutters on their first go around. A priest has been killed in Boston and the Saints are the only suspects (even though they have been gone for several years now), ... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:27 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day-t1091.htm#6825 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day-t1091.htm http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/left-4-dead-it-finally-happened-t1025.htm J1NX So finally somebody decided to do what all gamers wanted from the get go.... ÜberGeek News and Reviews Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:23:52 GMT http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/left-4-dead-it-finally-happened-t1025.htm#6459 http://www.thegamerboards.com/ubergeek-news-and-reviews-f30/left-4-dead-it-finally-happened-t1025.htm