This week in Geek in Review, Wil Wheaton talks about saving your local shop.

While you may be able to get 10% off if you use your preferred customer card at the bookstore in the mall, is cranky manager guy going to take the time to talk with you, and suggest a graphic novel you may have missed, like Kinetic?

While you may be able to save a few bucks on the latest d20 source book in that same bookstore (if they stock it, that is) don’t count on stumbling across any new games, like the boxed version of Kill Doctor Lucky, or High School Drama. And I can guarantee you that the bookstore in the mall won’t stay open late because the owner really wants to do a Shadowrun one-off, and will provide pizza and Mountain Dew for any players who show up this Friday at 7.

Good stuff.

80,000 votes. 4,000 mods. Over the course of 2 months, gamers from across the globe came together to decide which mods rank as the epitome of what our hard working community can do. Now, gallons of blood and sweat later, we tell you what triumphed in 2006.

Congratulations to Black Mesa for winning this award. I’m definitely checking out this mod very soon. PC Gaming developers continue to amaze me with all of their hard work and dedication to modding games for free.

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Balance one ball and and keep another ball as long as you can. My record 8 sec. The site is in French, but all you have to do is click On JOUER To begin!!

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Gamecron PC Gaming has a review of Rappelz up at their site.  This is a free MMORPG that looks a lot like World of Warcraft to me, and apparently has pretty good gameplay.  This looks like it’s worth checking out if you love MMORPG’s and can’t afford one of the pay to play MMORPG’s.