Free Skull Key Code On Borderlands 2!

Hey! Do you play Borderlands 2, and want a free skull key for the chest in Sanctuary? There are a couple of ways if you don't know. Go to the main menu and go to the extras tab. From there you'll click on the "SHIFT CODE" button. Sign up for a shift account and get your first free key!

The next way is to simply follow Randy Pitchford on Twitter. He'll be periodically giving away codes to redeem on the SHIFT code screen for more free skull keys! Happy Vault Hunting!

Until next time, keep on Gamin' on!

Heroes Call (Free Android Game)

Heroes Call
Android, (iPod/iPad/iPhone upcoming)
Free-to-Play


Heroes Call is a free Android (coming soon to iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone) adventure game with a decent RPG element. The player is able to choose from one free hero, and can pay U.S $1.99 each for up to three other heroes. Think of it as a Diablo type game, but on a much smaller and a little more repetitive scale. E.G. Most of the dungeons look the same, even though they are titled different.

Best of the Best: Cheap and/or Free Games

For a game about a cat trying to get milk, it sure doesn't feature many cats...

Hey all, we're going to try a little something new here over the next month, and we want your feedback to help us out with our new experiment.   Once a week, for the next month, we here at Gaming Cuisine are going to post a review of a game that we love that is cheap or free.  Since these games will mostly be free-to-play games, we won't go into too much depth on the details of each title, but will instead focus more about what audience they're aimed at.

Also the price of the game will reflect how long the reviews are.  The more expensive a game is, the more words the review will contain.  Any games we review that are bordering the $10 mark will have a fairly standard review, but most free-to-play titles will just be short, easy to get through synopses, essentially stating why you should be playing the game we've featured.

League Of Legends 5v5 tournament **UPDATED**

We are happy to announce the League Of Legends five versus five tournament. It will be on October 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, and will be held at The Gamerz Funk. Please go to the Cook Off's page for all of the details!

Until next time, keep on gamin' on!

**Initially the date was October 13, 2012. This has now changed to October 20, 2012. Sorry for any inconveniences. See you then!

Borderlands 2 Review

I was introduced to the original Borderlands by a buddy of mine about a year before its release in 2009 and I immediately fell in love with the idea of a 4 player co-op game. After I picked up the game I spent countless hours with my family and friends traveling around Pandora, enjoying the humorous dialogue and killing anything that moved. Needless to say, when Borderlands 2 was announced I was as happy as a fat kid with a corn dog! It has become an obsession over the last few months and it was all I could do to avoid watching all the gameplay footage released by Gearbox. I wanted my first night with the game to be filled with surprises and it almost seemed like Gearbox wanted everyone to know everything about the new game before its release. I know there are people out there that enjoy a ton of prerelease info, but I enjoy the anticipation. It’s like Christmas, how fun is it Christmas morning if you already know everything you’re gonna get? I’ll step down off my soap box now, but you get my point.

Borderlands 2 Midnight Release, and Future Midnight Launches

We had around one hundred and fifty people attend the midnight launch at the GameStop in Jordan Landing last night. It was a pretty exciting night to say the least. Noodles and Company stayed open late so that people could eat some food while they waited, but also so people could show Noodles and Company their receipt from prepaying the game off and receive a free desert! So, Thank you Noodles and Company. We look forward to you staying open late again for the bigger releases in November. Through the night Gaming Cuisine provided a TV set up with a copy of the first Borderlands for two players to enjoy if they so desired. GameStop had two stations for gaming as well. One for Halo: Reach, and the other for the most recent Mortal Kombat. People were sure to not get bored with all we had set up for them. On top of that there was an epic raffle with a boatload of prizes.

Gears of War 3: 2v2 Tournament Recap (Picture Heavy)

We had an incredible turn out! Six teams of two signed up and competed in last Saturday's GOW3: 2v2 tournament. I want to thank everyone that participated, and I must say that each and every one of you are very talented. We also had several people spectating, and that made it even more legit than it already was! I'd also like to thank Mike and The Gamerz Funk crew for helping us throw the tournament, and for providing their incredible gaming space for the event. And a special thanks to Robby for coming to represent Gaming Cuisine and run the entire bracket for the tournament, and for Rusty for providing the second place prizes for the competition from GameStop in Jordan Landing. Couldn't have done it as smoothly with out any of you!

Update

We will be posting pictures and information from our Gears of War 3: 2v2 tournament later today. I apologize nothing was posted for yesterday, but it was all in good cause! I went to the midnight launch for Borderlands 2 last night and it was awesome! Details on that to come later tonight too!

Until next time, keep on gamin' on!

Borderlands 2 Midnight Launch Giveaway

We will be at the midnight launch of Borderlands 2 on September 17, 2012. At this midnight launch we will have a raffle, and will be giving away a Borderlands 2 strategy guide to one lucky winner! This strategy guide will come with a bonus! A 15 month calendar themed after Borderlands 2! If you haven't reserved Borderlands 2, head over to the Gamestop in Jordan Landing and do, so that you don't miss out on the chance to win the awesome strategy guide, calendar, and the opportunity buy a game that will not disappoint!! See you there!

Until next time, keep on gamin' on!

Gears of War 2v2 Tournament Rules, and Maps

The rules and maps for the Gears of War 2v2 tournament this weekend have been added to the Cook Off's page. Head over there now to see this list. We can't wait for Saturday! And remember to re-read the "Disclosure" so that you are aware of the time you are expected to show, and sign up by.

Until next time, keep on gamin' on!

Star Wars: Battlefront meets Battlefield 3?

LucasArts has brought the videogame world and its huge Star Wars following some pretty incredible games, including the upcoming Star Wars: 1313. One of my absolute favorite adventure games from the world of SW is The Force Unleashed. It gives the player an amazing opportunity to feel what it would be like to have the force that a Jedi has, and from the dark side at that. The way the game ran, the story, the graphics, music, control, and several other things is what made this game good. One of the most fun SW games I have played would have to be Star Wars: Battlefront, and for some of the same reasons that made TFU excellent.

Gears of War 3 2v2 Tournament UPDATE, and Halo 4

It has come to my attention that one of the biggest rivalry games in the history of the NCAA is going to be happening only an hour after we are holding the Gears of War 3 tournament. In the interest of our attendance, and the BYU vs. Utah's attendance, we are moving the time from 7:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Please check out our Cook Off's page for further details.

It has also come to my attention that Halo 4 is quite possibly going to be the best title in the Halo franchise yet. When Halo: Combat Evolved was released the bar was set high for console FPS's. Halo 2 added to it with the addition of Xbox Live, duel wielding, better graphics, harder enemies, but the story sort of lacked. Halo 3 was an exciting ending to the war with the Covenant race, and added incredible multiplayer, much better graphics, customization, and several other things. Halo: Reach gave us insight on how the Halo story all began, added a new style of multiplayer, and was graphically enhanced.

Symphony: Gaming Dissonance

A demon is taking over your music in the hopes of, something...
It was apparently evil though, and involved music...

Symphony 
PC 


I'm not going to lie I was looking forward to this game, a lot. Perhaps that's why I felt so disappointed in it. Or perhaps it's just a truly awful game. I will say one thing, it was at least bad enough that I forgot to post my original review of it last week. That says something, that says, at the very least, that this game was bad enough that I purposefully tried to forget about it. It says this game was so bad I uninstalled it, and had to reinstall it to grab some screens from it. That statement says many, many things, but "good" is certainly not one of them. But I digress, Symphony, is a music based shooter. Similar to games like Beat Hazard, and Audiosurf, Symphony uses the music in your computers library to build the levels. Unlike Beat Hazard or Audiosurf, though, Symphony is not a railed button-pushing rhythm game or arena shooter. Symphony is an amalgamation of several genres we've seen before, including arena shooters, single-button shooters, music-rhythm shooters, railed shooters, etc. (See what I did there?). Shooting is the name of the game in Symphony, and while this should have been a real blast, and could be with the right tweeks, as is Symphony falls flat.