3DS reveal

Hey guys this is Tom, a member of GeekBeerz, you may have seen my other sites ZA4M and STAT. Anyways I put up a video of me and Shrew opening up his 3DS for the first time. Here is the video:



Pretty cool huh?



We admit that it was hard to get use to the 3D, almost made my head hurt from looking too long, but overall it is a nice new piece of technology. -Tom West

Minecraft Creator Challenges Bethesda

Recently, Notch, the brilliant mind behind the hit game Minecraft, announced the title and details about his next game Scrolls. Shortly after, Bethesda found out about it and filed a lawsuit against him saying that the title, "infringes on their trademark and everyone will confuse it with Skyrim."

Now, in my opinion, the reason that they're saying Scrolls would get confused with Skyrim is absurd. I mean, yes, technically the full title is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but no one even addresses anything before the colon. Everyone who knows about these games calls them Morrowind or Oblivion.

In response to all this nonsense, Notch has sent a challenge back to Bethesda:

The only negative thing going on at this moment is the Scrolls trademark lawsuit nonsense, and I think I came up with the perfect solution:

Remember that scene in Game of Thrones where Tyrion chose a trial by battle in the Eyrie? Well, let’s do that instead!
I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.

If we win, you drop the lawsuit.

If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with.

Regardless of the outcome, we could still have a small text somewhere saying our game is not related to your game series in any way, if you wish.

Bethesda has yet to respond to this, but if they accept the challenge, I'm hoping everything ends well...with a livestream going so everyone else can watch the carnage. :)

~Geoff

Source: Notch

Geoff's Big List of Games

Yo, this is Geoff from the Geek Beerz Podcast. On the podcast, we're going to get together and list of all the games each of us has beaten. In preparation for that, I decided to post my list of games I own. I'll be updating this monthly.

PC Games

Age of Empires: Gold Edition

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings + The Conquerors

Age of Mythology: Gold Edition

And Yet It Moves

Atom Zombie Smasher

Black & White

Braid

Cogs

Cortex Commander

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Diablo II

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

Fate

Fate: Undiscovered Realms

Frozen Synapse

Hammerfight

Jack Claw

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Machinarium

Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition

Neverwinter Nights 2 + expansions

Osmos

Revenge of the Titans

Shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds: Survivor

Starcraft + Brood Wars

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

SpaceChem

Splot

Thief Gold

Thief 2: The Metal Age

Thief: Deadly Shadows

TRAUMA

Trine

VVVVVV

Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition

Warcraft III: Battlechest

Gamecube Games

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Killer7

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Metroid Prime

Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary

Resident Evil

Sonic Gems Collection

Sonic Mega Collection

Starfox Adventures

Starfox Assault

Super Smash Bros.: Melee

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

Nintendo Wii
MadWorld
Red Steel
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

Playstation Portable

Final Fantasy

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

Nintendo 64

All-Star Baseball '99

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Nuclear Strike 64

Starfox 64

Top Gear Rally

Nintendo DS

Elite Beat Agents
Feel The Magic XY♥XX
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Solatorobo: Red the Hunter

Starfox: Command

The World Ends With You

Playstation 2

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Barbarian

Bujingai: The Forsaken City
Dance Dance Revolution: Max

Dance Dance Revolution: Supernova 2

Darkwatch
Devil Kings

Devil May Cry

Dynasty Warriors 5

Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends
EOE: Eve of Extinction

Extermination

Fatal Frame

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII

Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir

Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge
Gitaroo Man

Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde
Half-Life

Haunting Ground

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman: Contracts

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories

Kingdom Hearts II

Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

The Mark of Kri

Max Payne

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Monster Hunter
NanoBreaker

No One Lives Forever
Odin Sphere

Okami

Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer

Project Eden

PRYZM Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn
Radiata Stories

Ratchet: Deadlocked

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X

Resident Evil 4
Rogue Galaxy

Rule of Rose

Samurai Western

Shadow of the Colossus
Shinobi

Siren

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals: Commbined Assault

Space Channel 5: Special Edition
State of Emergency

The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Thing

Tekken Tag Tournament
Total Overdose: Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
Tribes: Ariel Assault
Tsugunai: Atonement
Turok: Evolution

Twisted Metal: Black
Way of the Samurai
Yakuza

Xbox 360

Aegis Wing

Alone in the Dark
Alpha Protocol

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed 2
Bayonetta

The Beatles: Rock Band

Beyond Good & Evil HD

Bioshock

Blue Dragon

Borderlands: Game of the Year

Bubble Bobble Neo!

Burnout: Paradise

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Chime
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Crackdown

Dark Souls

Dance Dance Revolution

Dead to Rights: Retribution

Deadly Premonition
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

DJ Hero

DJ Hero 2

Doom

Doom 3

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

Dragon Age: Origins + DLC & Awakening
Enclave

Enchanted Arms
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Fable II

Fallout 3

Final Fantasy XIII

Frontlines: Feul of War

Gears of War

Greed Corp

Halo

Halo 3

Halo: Reach

Hard Corps: Uprising

Hexic HD

Hydro Thunder: Hurricane

Ikaruga

ilomilo
Infinite Undiscovery
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Kameo: Elements of Power
The Last Remnant

Left 4 Dead

Limbo

Lost Odyssey

Lost Planet

Lost Planet 2

Magic: The Gathering

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 2

N+

Ninety-Nine Nights
Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Gaiden Black

Oblivion

Operation: Darkness

The Orange Box
Panzer Dragoon: Orta

Perfect Dark

Power Gig: Rise of the Six String

Project Sylpheed

Rainbow Six: Vegas

Rock Band 2

Rock Band 3
Saint's Row
Saint's Row 2

Shadow Complex

Small Arms

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

'Splosion Man

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Stranglehold

Tekken 6

TimeShift

Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Torchlight

Two Worlds
Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgement
Vanquish

Viking: Battle For Asgard

X Men: The official Game

~Geoff

New 3DS Color and Price Drop

      At the E3 press release of the latest handheld device, the 3DS, there was one design and six colors shown. (http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/207/nintendo3dssystemcolour.jpg http://www.infendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nintendo-3ds-black-blue-640x460.jpg these are the 6 colors Nintendo has come up with.) But when released in the US UK and Japan the Colors were Black and Blue, what happened to the others? It seems like Nintendo enjoys giving us amazing things to look forward to then ends up just falling short of their expectations.

      You know black and blue are great colors for Nintendo to start with, I mean they have been beat up so much that now all they are black and blue bruises trying to fix the problems they have created. Now seems like Nintendo is making the right choice, starting September 9 of the year 2011 Nintendo will be releasing the new Cherry Red 3DS (color not specific to cherry red alone) and dropping the price from the overly expensive amount of $250, down to a reasonable $170. Personally if i were Nintendo I would have taken a vote among the people of japan to find out what colors they would prefer. The way I see it the choices would not fall as blue being the second choice among consumers, it most likely  would have been Black, Red, Green, Blue, then either purple or orange. I believe Nintendo released the blue at first to appeal more to the rising female generation of video gamers, its no longer a guys club anymore, and then the black for the neutrality of the color making it suitable for all.

      Personally I would have chosen purple, mostly because its a color that's not often used, and when talking to Geoff earlier about the 3DS colors he would have liked to see green growing up from out of the ground. The colors Black, Blue, and Red have been used so much by Nintendo that it would have been a nice relief to see some more prominent colors. This price drop will significantly improve the sales of the 3DS, I might consider getting one now that its in my price range, but why such a significant drop in price? Well the release of the 3DS was a failure for Nintendo in many ways, with an amazing new generation of handheld devices who wouldn't want it? and after the release many of us were wondering "where are all of these games Nintendo promised us!" Well here they come, several new games are coming out just in  time for the holiday rush and all of the people out there who were on the edge of fence questioning which way jump, now you no longer have to wonder, the 3DS will become a great handheld system you just have to give it a little more time, so buy it now. 

      - Written by Shrew

GBP Episode 1 - Top 5 Games

Tom, Alex and Geoff gather around the mic to introduce themselves and say their top 5 games of all time.