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Batman – Arkham City

Posted  October 20, 2011  by  TheJAEffect

TheJAEffect takes a strole through Arkham City… For my first review for Pittco.org, I’ll be going over Rocksteady Studios’ Batman: Arkham City. Now while I haven’t played the whole game yet, I have gotten through the a bunch of it. I’ve played through about 4 hours worth of the 12 hour boasted gameplay and let [...]

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FITES February 200 Man LAN Party

Posted  September 28, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

Our brothers out in Central PA have announced that registration is open for the biggest LAN in Harrisburg’s history. The FITES 200 is set to be the biggest nerd party ever so if your in the Pittsburgh, Philly, Lancaster, or Baltimore area you have no reason to not be there. These guys have been part of NERDS [...]

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Pittco eScene – Ep: 001 – The Beginning

Posted  August 2, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

Okay kids this was a project that was talked about some time ago but we never had the equipment or drive to pull it off. The Pittco eScene was a project that Derek ‘Synapse’ Staley and I came up with and figured that the Pittco site was a perfect place to showcase it. The goal [...]

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RetroLAN old-school LAN party registration open!

Posted  June 14, 2011  by  Colin Dean

Do you remember the early days of LAN parties, when dial-up was the mainstay and only the rich kids had that newfangled “DSL” or “cable Internet” service? Do you remember lugging your Pentium 3 or your AMD K6 and that shiny new ATI Rage 128 graphics card with a 30 pound 19″ CRT monitor to [...]

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Pittco Gamer Interview – The GXL TMG 2011 Promo

Posted  May 5, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

Okay this was a post that was supposed to go up a couple of days ago, actually this is an Interview that I did only a couple of days ago… But alas due to the shear amount of editing I would have had to do to this Interview I decided to post it in its [...]

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The GXL TMG 2011 :: May 6th-8th :: Philly Expo Center

Posted  April 28, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

If you like to LAN and you don’t know about the GXL you must live under a rock. They are by far the largest LAN organization on the east coast and a proud partner of Pittco. They make up the largest part of the North East Regional Digital Syndicate and after the LAN they have [...]

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Keyboards+Mouse = Console Controller?

Posted  November 2, 2011  by  TheJAEffect

So I received an email from our Executive Manager here at Pittco about doing an opinion piece to be posted on the new website. Obviously, you are reading it now. I said that I would love to do any kind of article, and kindly asked about the topic he wished me to offer my insight [...]

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Video Game Releases :: 11-1-11

Posted  November 1, 2011  by  Nik Parenti
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MechWarrior Online

Posted  October 31, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

I was 11 years old when I first overheated a computer into shutting off. The cause: MechWarrior 2! It was very amusing  how my computer seemed to act the same way the Mech would. The harder I ran my comp the quicker it crashed and anyone who has ever played a MechWarrior game knows the [...]

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The Story of Modern Warfare

Posted  October 31, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

If you’ve been alive for the past 6 months you’ve seen at least one Modern Warfare 3 advertisement. If you’re going to sit there and say that you didn’t… you’re lying. Since seeing these advertisements maybe you’ve decided that MW3 is my time to finally jump into the Call of Duty world. Well, the boys over at IGN [...]

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Soul Caliber 5 Surprise Character Announcement

Posted  October 21, 2011  by  Nik Parenti

Soul Caliber has recently been the fighting series daring enough to bring characters in from other games and seemless transition them into the fighting arena-d world. In the past we’ve seen the likes of Heihachi Mishima from the Tekken series, Link from the Zelda series, and Spawn, from well, Spawn. But never have we been graced with [...]

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