Arkeg: Drink and Game [Update]

A company called Allstarcade is looking to reinvent the way you play arcade games in a pretty unique way. It seems like a dream come true for a college student when you can have a machine that booth allows you to play video games and get your drank on at the same time. Arkeg is an old school arcade cabinet with a very sleek and sexy look to it. Black vinyl siding with a shiny aluminum control panel, it’s enough to make any gamer’s mouth water, but what will really make you salivate about this machine is it’s built in beer keg with tap attached at the left side of the machine. Not to say that it can only be used for beer, the company says they have hosted a few parties where it was stock full of alternative beverages such as root beer or soda.

Blackberry’s Answer to the iPad

Earlier today Research in Motion revealed announced their Blackberry Playbook. A professional grade tablet with a new Blackberry Tablet OS. Some of the stats we do know are:

2 Minute Review For You: Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands

8-bit Battle

Have you ever wanted to watch a movie of a guy wearing only boxers beat up a bunch of bugs to save a girl who somehow controls whether or not the world is 2 dimensional or 3? Well take a look at this video called 8-bit. It is a great throwback to the way games used to be. A time in which the average player didn’t have to worry about storyline or character development. The main thing on your mind was either time your jumps properly or beat the clock.

Metal Gear and Monster Hunter Mash-up

On September 19th Konami and Capcom announced a Monster Hunter X Metal Gear collaboration in the new Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. You will now be able to Change your main Character to look like Naked Snake or The Boss from Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker. This doesn’t come as a complete surprise as Metal Gear Solid: Peace walker had a special stage where a cat named  Trenya who leads you over a river in it’s boat and it’s there that you fight monsters from the Monster Hunter games, including Gear Rex that seems to be a Monster Hunter remake of Metal Gear Rex.

Where Will You Be Picking Up Halo: Reach?

Halo: Reach is only 3 days away. Where will you be picking up your copy? We have done all the research and from what we can tell everywhere is selling the editions for the same price-points, being…

Regular Edition:$59.99

Limited Edition: $79.99

Legendary Edition: $149.99

Xbox 360 Halo: Reach Edition: $399.99

2 Minute Review For You: UFC Undisputed 2010

Video Review of UFC Undisputed 2010.

Hydrophobia, the Game that is a Water Level

I know when I think back to famous underwater levels, the first thing that comes to mind is one of the most difficult levels of all time, The water temple from the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. I was never really a fan of water levels in general, but i believe this is a game that has done it right. 

Blizzard Pays Homage to Themselves in Starcraft 2.

Well it has finally arrived, Starcraft 2 has finally hit stores and Blizzards pockets are just another few miles deeper. For those of us who went to the midnight launches that were happening almost anywhere that sold the game were treated to quite the smooth connection to battlenet last night. So far there hasn’t been any huge outages or major bugs found. If you were anything like myself and jumped straight into the campaign to see what it was all about, you may have found some of the little tidbit throwbacks Blizzard threw in there for their hardcore fans.

Gnarcade, the Music Video Where Boards and Video Games Battle It Out

“Ground Up Sounds” and “The Knife Show” team up to bring one of the best music videos involving video games we have ever seen. It includes appearance from well known games as, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, Frogger and Portal. It has some spectacular Stunts pulled off by Scott Stevens, Micah Hollinger, Chris Beresford, Tim Eddy, Ben Bogart, and Casey Wrightsman a team of Board experts so to speak. Even if you are not a fan of the style of music, the visuals alone are worth the watch.