Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games.

The three big games this week are Jagged Alliance – Back in Action and … oh yeah, that Playstation Vita thing. This week brings the special early adopters bundle, and a bunch of games are hitting stores as well. Early looks are no surprise – great hardware, extremely locked down transfer options, and pretty crappy PSP game compatibility.

Jagged Alliance is one of the great franchises, and although it is also getting a re-make as a shooter, strategy fans are more excited for this great looking strategy game reboot. We might not be getting a true turn-based game – this is the classic ‘Real-Time with Pause’, but it is still a fun addition to the franchise and much better than many feared.

There are a few others worth checking this week – read on to find out! Read the full story

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games.

The three big games this week are The Darkness II , Jagged Alliance – Back in Action and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning . The original Darkness game was a bit of a sleeper, getting solid reviews but not immediately gaining the commercial success it deserved. Since then it has become a definite fave for many gamers, making the arrival of the sequel even more exciting.

Jagged Alliance is one of the great franchises, and although it is also getting a re-make as a shooter, strategy fans are more excited for this great looking strategy game reboot.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the highly anticipated first title from 38 Studios, headed by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. The demo met with decidedly mixed reviews, with fairly negative feedback particularly from PC gamers. Schilling has been on the forums touting the changes and advances from the demo to the release (and spouting off on just about everything, apparently), so hopefully the troubles with the demo will be rectified.

There are a few others worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games.

The two big games this week are Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning . The original Final Fantasy XIII was initially met with high review scores, but there was plenty of criticism from a mediocre story to extreme linearity to too many protracted cutscenes and more. Overall it is thought of as one of the weaker franchise games. The sequel is getting early looks that say it definitely addresses the criticism.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the highly anticipated first title from 38 Studios, headed by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. The demo met with decidedly mixed reviews, with fairly negative feedback particularly from PC gamers. Schilling has been on the forums touting the changes and advances from the demo to the release (and spouting off on just about everything, apparently), so hopefully the troubles with the demo will be rectified.

There are a few others worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Today’s Gear Deal comes to us from the Microsoft Store via our Gear Sponsor and it is a great one! The Samsung Series 7 11.6″ Core i5 Slate is an impressive piece of kit that will only get better with the release of the touch-enabled Windows 8. This model of the Series 7 Slate (model XE700T1A-A04) features an 11.6″ 1366×768 display, an Intel Core i5-2467M processor running at 1.6GHz, 4GB RAM, a 128GB SSD, a USB port, a microHDMI, dual facing cameras (2MP front, 3MP rear), Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and a microSD slot. It weighs just 1.98lbs and gets up to 7 hours battery life. Yes, it runs Windows 7 Professional 64 OS but the developer… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games.

The only big game this week is King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame. The original game had loads of content and did a great job combining role-playing and strategy, and the expansions added even more great stuff, making this game highly anticipated by RPG and strategy fans alike!

There are a few others worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Way back in January Microsoft released OneNote for the iPhone, taking aim at EverNote and others. Now they have upped the ante, releasing an iPad version of the versatile note-taking app. As before, it is free – but limited to 500 notes, requiring an in-app purchase to unlock.

Microsoft OneNote for iPad is a note-taking app for capturing all of your ideas and to-dos on the go, brought to you by Microsoft Office.

Create searchable notes with text, pictures and bullets. Make and manage to-do lists with checkboxes. Then keep your notes in sync using free Microsoft SkyDrive® online storage to access, edit and manage them from virtually anywhere, from your PC

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Clinton recently wrote an opinion piece entitled, “As RIM Writes Off The Playbook, The Pressure is on Microsoft to Make a Complete Windows 8 Tablet“, in which he says:

This morning the Wall Street Journal reported that RIM is taking a $485 million charge for their lackluster tablet, the Playbook.  The charge comes by way of a markdown in the value of the massive inventor that RIM still has of the devices.  It is a brutal and costly reminder that if you kinda-sorta-maybe-woulda-shoulda your tablet strategy, the price can be steep.  Very steep.

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The challenge facing Microsoft is that they are behind when it comes to a tablet strategy.  Regardless of what

Sometimes there is no better way to demonstrate that what a company is saying is pure rubbish than by putting it to a simple test. Apple’s Siri was released to simultaneous cheers and yawns – cheers from those who use it and yawns from Microsoft and Google (and their fanboys) saying that they already have the same technology.

This week Microsoft made a big deal about how they already had a ‘Siri-like’ technology and all Apple had going for it was ‘good marketing’. This is very similar to what Google has said, and is the sort of thing that plays well to the faithful. But is it true? TechAU took a look… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

From the Editorial Staff of Gear Diary: Is there someone in your life who loves gaming? If so, here are five gifts with which you can’t go wrong.

XBOX360 (or Playstation 3)- not an inexpensive gift, but more and more families are using consoles as a way of gaming, streaming video, and more!

The Xbox 360 250GB Holiday bundle is just $299.99 in our Amazon Affiliate Store.

The PlayStation 3 160GB System is just $249.96 in our Amazon Affiliate Store

iPod Touch – As Mike wrote here, the DS and PSP are fading… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! The contrast between the hundred plus releases last week and the couple of dozen this week shows that we are now in the slide into the holidays and the big releases are done. Well, almost – we have The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Wii this week, which had been listed for last week on some sites.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Saint’s Row: The Third, and Need for Speed: The Run! And those are just the ‘blockbusters’!

There are a few other big games, such as Serious Sam 3: BFE, which is a prequel to the classic pure-fun shooter series. I loved the first two, but felt they stumbled with Serious Sam 2 by trying to be …well, too serious.

There are other interesting releases like The King of Fighters XIII, as well as WWE ’12, as well as some others. Every platform has something worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! This week we have ‘oh-no-it-is-almost-thanksgiving-and-call-of-duty-is-out-so-we-better-release-our-stuff-FAST’ week! This week we get The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Saint’s Row: The Third, and Need for Speed: The Run! And those are just the ‘blockbusters’!

There are plenty of other big games, such as the cool looking Jurassic Park – The Game, which comes from Telltale Games, who has brought us Sam & Max, Monkey Island, and Back to the Future in recent years.

There are other interesting releases like Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, as well as Rayman Origins, as well as some others. Every platform has something worth checking this week – read on to find out!… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

If you use Microsoft Office, but found yourself dozing on the day they were sharing tips & tricks, now is your chance to catch up with the other power users!

“Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks – Limited Time Offer“ This $7 Value eBook Expires 11/16/2011.

Microsoft Office is one of the most popular and user friendly office suites in the market. With Office 2010, Microsoft had made it bigger by integrating features for Office Web Apps and Mobile Office and significant changes to User Interface and included a lot of new features in Office Suite. This eBook offers more than 50 tips and tricks focused on making sure that you get the most out of Office

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! This week we have two massive releases that will each result in millions of copies sold, with one already gaining an estimate of more than a billion dollars in revenue! Those games are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

While Modern Warfare 3 will be the larger game in terms of sales, Skyrim is more anticipated for a few reasons: first, it has been five years since the last entry, the highly over-rated but still amazing and successful Oblivion. Since Call of Duty has basically become ‘Madden with guns’, there isn’t much to anticipate… Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Get ready for an onslaught of Xbox 360 video game releases including expanded Kinect camera/sensor games where players do not need a remote to play. Continue reading on Gear Diary ...

Today’s deal is an awesome Xbox 360 Holiday Bundle Deal. This bundle includes a 250GB Xbox 360, Fable 3, a Halo: Reach Download, an Xbox 360 headset and 3-month Xbox LIVE Gold. The bundle is just $299.99 but there is more. It also includes a $50 gift card which effectively makes this bundle just $249.99!! Details and ordering options can be found here on the deal page.

Gear Deal: Microsoft Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Bundle (Includes Fable 3, Halo : Reach Download, Xbox 360 headset and 3-month Xbox LIVE Gold) + $50 Gift Card via LogicBUY