A Spore Nerd Corner

Today I'm going to write about Salvador the Gunzerker. Salvador is what would be referred to in traditional games as the berserker.  He's the guy that goes in with guns blazing and takes everybody out. If you're the more up-close and personal kinda fps player this is the guy to go for. Salavadors' special ability is Gunzerking. Gunzerking lets you bust out two weapons at the same time and take out everything in your way. While with other classes the cool down for your skills isn't that bad the Gunzerking is one of the higher ones with a 42 second wait until you can use it again. As with all the other toons you get your choice of 3 skill trees to buff up Salvador. Gun Lust- this skill tree is more about reloading, changing weapons and making the guns use more potent. Rampage - this tree is more about your ammo, recovering and capacity, not to mention lowering cool down time and making the actual gunzeking last longer. Brawn - the tank class making you toughe...

This is the third installment in my Borderlands 2 guides. I've covered Axton, and Zer0 so far and now it's time for the beauty of the wastelands, Maya. Maya is the Siren class for Borderlands. Lilith was a Siren of the original game. Maya's special skill is Phaselock. It brings enemies into the air locking them down for you to take out. As you gain levels the Phaselock ability will gain different additional powers. Everything from giving back some health, increasing critical and hit damage, not to forget lighting enemies on fire. Tips: The Harmony skill tree has abilities that bring back health and is great for playing with friends. The Cataclysm tree is just what is sounds like. Your Phaselock ability will have the added elemental effect. Phaselock is a great ability for setting up sniper shots. Always carry a sniper rifle. The Motion tree is great for handling large groups of enemies. With skills like Converge that will suck a bunch of enemies together setting t...

So for all of us Starcraft fans, prepare to wet your pants with excitement! Blizzard has launched the opening cinematic for Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm! If you want to check it out just click right here . Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion to the super fun RTS Starcraft 2. You will be Sarah Kerrigan. No longer with Queen of Blades you are stuck in a cell in some high-security research lab. Your job is to make your escape and take back what is yours. Heart of the Swarm along with continuing the story we have all grown to love, will add new units for the Terran, Protoss and Zerg. You'll be able to pick up Heart of the Swarm March 12, 2013.

Zer0 from Borderlands 2 is the super nifty looking assassin. His special power is called deception, Zero turns invisible for a short period and places a decoy out, so he can get close behind an enemy and use his melee attack for a devastating attack bonus. His three skill trees are Sniping for accuracy and critical hit, cunning which is mostly for melee but also helps with sniping, and Bloodshed which is more about giving buffs after each kill. Tips Ninja Vanish! Your Deception skill isn't just a great way to take down enemies. When you feel the world tumbling out of control pop your Deception skill and run for it. Sniper Rifles are your friend. Zer0  is an assassin, getting yourself in the middle of every fight isn't always the best way to go. Sometimes it's better to sit back and take out your enemies from afar. Good skills for a Sniping: Bore , your shots pierce through enemies if it hits another target after it's first it gains a massive damage bonus. Critica...

Hey everybody I decided to continue with Borderlands 2 by giving tips on each of the playable classes. So for this blog I'm going to start of with Axton. Axton for those that don't know is the soldier. He actually reminds me a lot of Roland from Borerlands 1, as he summons torrents  to help you take out his opponents. The Tips: Use your ability's. That torrent is going to save you in all sorts of tricky situations and it's not like it's not going to recharge so bust out that bad boy. Watch where you put your torrent. If you place a rocket torrent to close to a wall the rockets will hit the wall and  nothing else. I know how much we all hate walls but their are more important targets. Your torrent goes after whoever is closest. This gives you a chance to pick your target better. If the torrent is going to take out what it's shooting at before it can get to you, you should go after bad guys further away. Offense or Defense. If you are more upfront offens...

Borderlands 2 isn't your average fps and treating it as one will leave you in the dust while all your borerlands buddies grab the goodies. So here are  some great tips to put you in the good gear and lay your enemies in the dust. Where's the money? The answer, EVERYWHERE! If you want to make good money pick everything up, open ever chest, break everything and anything. You can sell and any money is good money. Want to find the good stuff to sell? Go exploring! The further afield you go wondering the better the gear you're going to find and what you can't use you can sell. Where is the Really good gear? Like I said before, go wondering.The more abstract of a place you are the better the gear is your going to get. Also keep track of the Borderlands facebook page. Every so often they will post codes up that you can enter into the game to collect more of those keys that open the chest in the travel station in  Solitude. The Best Exp? While wondering around is go...

That's right another mmo has dropped the fee and decided to free, or at least basically free. Tera Online has decided to drop it's subscription fees this February. All the game content will be free and the Tera will make money by charging people to customize their toons with costumes. Also an elite status will be available to buy which will allow 30 days of extra dungeon rewards, bonus daily quests along with an elite mount and in-game store discounts. If you already are playing Tera you'll be considered a founder. That gives players 8 character slots, 4 bank slots, a special mount and the title "Founder" For those of us just jumping into the world of Tera we will be greeted with new battlegrounds and dungeons. If you're looking for the official Tera website just click right  here . I don't know what everybody else is thinking but with all the mmo's going free to play I'm going to have a whole lot less free time on my hands. It also makes me...

So for the past week or so the world has been waiting to see what this epic news we were going to find out about the Pokemon world. Today we found out that a new Pokemon game is on it's way. Pokemon X and Y is coming for the 3DS and if all goes according to plan should be here in October. This new Pokemon adventure not only brings back old favorite Pokemon but a whole new set to wander the world catching. It's also going to give us something we've all been waiting for, a giant 3D world to explore, complete with full Pokemon models and characters. Want to see the trailer? I know you do so all you have to do is click right here !

I'm a Tomb Raider fan from way back when. So when I heard they were rebooting the series I got kinda worried. But after watching all the new vids online and seeing the screen shots I can't wait to dive back into Laura Crofts world. One thing that's been floating around the net is the question will Tomb Raider have multiplayer? Well we finally know. Today Crystal Dynamics Global Brand Director Karl Stewart Twitted "Ok, So after all the speculation..yes it's true. oxmonline.com/our-next-issue...check out @oxm for all the info on @tombraider's new multiplayer." I'm not exactly sure how a multiplayer option is going to work for a game like Tomb Raider, but it's no good to start judging things before we get a chance to play. The rest of the game, from what we've seen so far looks amazing.

Hey everybody, hope you had a great Christmas or what ever you celebrate. For those of us who have been waiting for the PvP content for Diablo 3, we're in for surprise... OK not so much. They've pushed it back......... again. PvP was part of the content that was supposed to come with the launch of Diablo 3, but Blizzard said it came with too many bugs and they didn't want to give the consumer something that isn't any good. I can go for that, I don't want to play something that doesn't work. Now however the PvP has been pushed back again because of a lack of depth. Game director Jay Wilson posted on the Diablo 3 site that "team deathmatch has been indefinitely tabled." "For us it comes to a few issues, one of which is depth.  Simply fighting each other with no other objectives or choices to make gets old relatively quickly.  We've brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our...

WoW addicts rejoice! wowhead.com has published 5.2 patch notes that are up on the public test realm. So what can we get excited for? Well i'm not going to list everything if you want to know a full list go here . Some of the neater stuff I noticed goes as follows. First a new raid will be opening up, Throne of Thunder. Also rogues will get 3 new abilities, along with monks getting two more. Their will be 3 more mounts to collect along with another 3 more companions. Heirloom gear will now be good until level 85, although I think heirloom gear takes away from the fun of the game. Some of the glyphs will be reworked. The last big thing I saw was the slick new Tier 15 armor, something you really should take a look at. Of course this is all just up on the PTR and nothing is set in stone. Really like the new caster armors, but the new paladin armor doesn't look as good.

Gearbox has done a great job so far giving us new content for Borderlands 2 with their third DLC, Sir Hammerlocks Big Game Hunt on it's way. With the super popularity of the last 2k has said that it wants  to keep supporting more new content to keep the fans happy.  2K has also confirmed that they will be raising the level cap from 50 in the beginning of the first quarter of next year. Past DLC have included Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage, the Mechromancer pack, Creature Slaughterdome, and Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's booty. All of which are available on Steam and worth picking up. At least I've enjoyed them a ton. The Mechromancer being my favorite character so far. I'm looking forward to any other new character classes they might think up.

Yup, another mmo has decided to loose it's subscription fee. In an attempt to get people to play, The Lost World has decided to loose the sub fee and instead make it a one time price of $30 and you'll be able to get additional content by paying a small fee. Funcoms other mmo, Conan, has also recently removed it's sub fees. The secret world takes place in the present world where you join one of three factions to fight the war against the secret world. That secret world being supernatural beings that threaten human kind. Threw the game you will not only kill supernatural monsters but also investigate conspiracy theories and myths putting the player in a deep and interesting story. The Metasscore for The Secret World is 73 out of  100 and the user score is 8.2 out of 10. You can download The Secret World on Steam for $29.99.

The first DLC for ID's fps Rage has been released today. It's going to cost you about $5. While the DLC doesn't fix any problems that Rage had it does give us a new gun, more places to explore, a new ultra-nightmare mode and a new clan of of bandits, The Scorchers. If you enjoyed Rage when you did play it, I think it's worth picking up. If you weren't a fan of the game to begin with this isn't going give it some new redeeming qualities.

Well it's been awhile since we heard anything at all about id's first person shooter Rage came to us but they've finally decided to give us some new content.  It's going to include six new areas, The Scorchers (a new evil gang), new Mutant Bash TV, more mini-games and new gun, the Nailgun. It should be available for $5 or 400 microsoft points. Rage came out in the U.S. in October of 2011 to mediocre reviews. While I enjoyed the game as a whole the ending, which I'll try not to spoil, felt like it didn't actually conclude anything.  It almost felt like we were supposed to have a whole next section to the game. I always figured the first DLC would give us a better ending but not so much. This DLC does give me a bit of hope though, it shows us that they still are thinking about their game and who knows they might actually listen to their fans and finish it.  The DLC should be available next week.

I wasn't to excited about the new Lone Ranger until about two seconds ago. A new trailer for the movie has been released and you can go here to see it. Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer have gotten together with Disney and the same group that gave us the Pirates of Caribbean movies to give us The Lone Ranger.  The story brings us The Long Ranger, a ranger that comes back from the dead being a spirit walker. He now rides the west for justice with his trusty sidekick, an American Indian, Tonto. OK I as soon as I said back from the dead a lot of people rolled their eyes and figure it's going to be a dumb movie but really it looks amazing and you should check it out.

Everybody has been worried... and I guess excited about the new Superman movie. Superman has been around for a long time now and what can I say, a lot of people have become slightly protective of the man of steel and that's why I'm a little worried after seeing the latest trailer. So before I go off and start everybody worrying to much I'll give a link to the official website, here . You really should go and take the time to watch the trailer so you can judge for yourself.  My problem? Yes the entire thing had beautiful special effects, it looks pretty. Then about a minute in Jonathan Kent kinda sounds like he was telling Clark to just let people die. Jonathan, telling Superman to let people die..... Does anybody else see something horribly wrong with that? That seem horribly our of character to me. It's almost as bad as Alfred Pennyworth abandoning Bruce Wayne in the last Batman movie, and if you've read any of my blogs you know how I feel about that. Of cour...

It's a super exciting time for Trekkies, Star Trek Into the Darkness has come out with a trailer. If you'd like the chance to see feel free to click here , that's going to take you to Apple trailers. People are already starting to analyze the trailer and what they think to be Spock's ultimate fate. I'm not going to make any guesses what's going to happen, since when you do it only leads to disappointment. What can I say, I'm jaded. People have already started taking shots at the movie poster. Not that they shouldn't it is really close to the Batman Dark Knight Rising movie poster.  Still it's a nice looking poster, but still how about  a little creativity. After all they were making the movie poster to one of the biggest franchises around.

So Batman The Dark Knight Rises is out on blue-ray for everybody so I thought I would give it a review. First of all I'm a Batman fan. I've seen the all the movies, I've read the comics and played the games. So maybe I have a bias, keep that in mind when reading the rest of the review. To be honest I can't believe that anybody liked this movie. While the acting and action was good the plot was crap. It had holes in it you could drive a batmobile threw. Characters that we have all grown to know and love threw the ages acted in ways that not only were out of character but were down right frustrating. I don't want to say exactly what happened not just keep the spoilers away for those masochists that still want to see the movie,  but to save the rest of you the suffering I had to endure. I've never been to a movie that actually wanted to leave in the middle of but I guess their is a first time for everything. Do yourself a favor and skip this movie.