Primary Audio/Visual Workstation: Asus G73JH-RBBX05This is the headliner workstation in the 'WERKz right now. It is used for: ○ Gaming - since I have set it up for its second tour of duty, I am playing Steam downloads only ○ Video edi… more »

Pencil's down. It has been one of my roughest semester's in school, but it is over. Time enough to lick my wounds and reflect on why I am subjecting myself to this pain. Six weeks before the Spring session starts. Time enough to play games in something l… more »

I was listening to the one of the IGN podcasts (I think it was Beyond) during my morning commute this week. One of the most interesting conversations was a relatively heated discussion on the forecast of when the digital download revolution will truly ta… more »

I am much more excited about the NGP than the Wii U. Problem is, the hardware looks great, but I did not see any games that excited me. I am sure the Uncharted title will be good, but I have not yet become immersed in that franchise, so I did not see any… more »

I am preparing for the Casual Adult Gamers Post-E3 podcast. Since most of the GearWERKZ.net readership does not listen to that podcast, and since most CAGers are not the bulk of the readership, I thought it would not be a bad idea to share my hot-notes f… more »

It took a long time for me to buy into the premise of mobile gaming. Sure, I have been gaming on laptops for eleven years. But it is a slightly different paradigm to game on a device not much bigger than your smartphone. I had a GameBoy in undergrad, but… more »

I get myself into trouble just about every time I bring this up. But the next recording session of the Regular Joe Gamer Podcast is this afternoon, and I want time to flesh my thoughts out before I run this by my fellow cast-members. My thoughts were pus… more »

 Despite my class load, I insist on continuing to keep certain titles on my radar. Regardless of whether or not I will ever get a chance to play them. Without further ado, here are the titles that have trickled to the top of my interest list: Gam… more »

The battle within me wages on...grad school, work, home-life are all in a pitched war with my desire to game and spend time with my gadgets. Maybe it is a sign of my advancing age, but the gaming and gadgeting are on the losing end of this battle right n… more »

I have not been getting much time to game. Not much time at all. Between 60 to 80 hour weeks at work on the night-shift, training, feeding, and taking out our new dog, and grad school classes getting started, there is hardly free time for geeking at all.… more »