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 [...]
Gear Games February 5 – 11, Featuring Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Again)
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 [...]
Gear Games January 29 – February 4, Featuring Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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 [...]
Gear Deal: Samsung Series 7 11.6″ Core i5 Slate AND a $200 MS Store GC AND a Free Docking Station
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 [...]
Gear Games January 22 – 28, Featuring King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame
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 [...]
Microsoft Releases Free Limited Version of OneNote for iPad!
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 [...]
One More Tablet Gone; Can Microsoft Avoid the Same Fate?
image courtesy of BerryReporter 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 [...]
Microsoft’s Claims of TellMe Being ‘Basically the Same as Siri’ Put to the Test
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 [...]
Holiday Gift Guide: For All Gamers
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 [...]
Gear Games Weekly: November 20 – 27 Featuring The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (again)
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 [...]
Gear Games Weekly: November 13 – 19 Featuring The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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 [...]
Limited Time Deal: Get a FREE Copy of the $7 Book, ‘Microsoft Office 2010: Tips and Tricks’
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 [...]
Gear Games Weekly: November 6 – 12 Featuring The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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 [...]
Holiday Gift Guide: For the XBox 360 Video Gamer
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.
Gear Deal: Microsoft Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Bundle Deal
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!! [...]



