Adam "Kharakov" Kharatian

Adam "Kharakov" Kharatian

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Adam "kharakov" Kharat is part nerd, part geed, and full awesome. Born with a joystick in hand on October 2, 1988, this gaming god has dominated the Overmind, slain the Reapers, destroyed the Archdemon, and disposed of The Lich King. Be it FPS, RPG, MMO, and many other three letter acronyms, games are this writer's specialty, PC to be exact. No mac tomfoolery here, PC gaming is in his DNA. Razer Naga in hand, he rides to root out the foul games that plague PC's reputation. With deadly writing skills and the sleeping habits of a jackrabbit, late night gaming sessions are all but mandatory.

Favorite game series include:
Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Warcraft, (<3 Blizzard), Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest, Call of Duty, Duke Nukem, Forsaken, League Of Legends, and o so many many more.

Favorite Shows: House.

But gaming is not this charming devil's only forte. Also specializing in geek chic, it is this casanova's goal to make "Nerd" more than a classification, but a title to be proud of.

Posts by Adam "Kharakov" Kharatian
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Jackie Chan is NOT retiring!

 

A recent press conference in Cannes for the movie “Chinese 12 Zodiac”  Jackie Chan stated that he will no longer be staring in action movies. UNTRUE. According to Chan himself as per his facebook account, not happening. Source: http://www.facebook.com/jackie

Hello all my friends and More >

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Diablo 3 review (normal/nightmare)

How do you follow up an act like Diablo II?

That is the question Blizzard had to find an answer to when working on the third title in the legendary franchise. There are expectations to meet, standards to adhere to, and the satisfaction of millions of fans to satiate. For a title that people have More >

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Diablo 3 Launch: Hell Has Issues

We’ve been through much together Blizzard. The good times (vanilla WOW), and the bad (Mists of Panderia), and with every launch you have taken careful consideration on server traffic, game compatibility, and customer support. What happened!? One lay off and suddenly the biggest launch of this year More >

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Ubisoft: A future in Hollywood

As Ubisoft has previously stated, a subsidiary of theirs has now began producing movies based on the franchises we know and love. The first of which will be based on the upcoming title Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. As always, the Russians get nukes and all hell breaks loose, meaning America has to More >

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SWTOR: Rakhgoul Event 150k+ credits per hour

The process is extremely simple and can be done by any character in any factions, as long as you have fleet access and can enter a flashpoint.

1. Become infected with the virus. There will be people huddled in the revive area of your fleet waiting to blow so just chill a few minutes and surely More >

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Is Blizzard Really Getting This Desperate?

A recent announcement by Blizzard has the World of Warcraft community in an uproar pertaining to a certain bonus of the new Scroll of Resurrection.

Originally the Scroll of Resurrection was Blizzards welcome back tool that gave the player that re-invited another player a free month of game time More >

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Review: Logitech Cube

With an endless sea of ergonomic shapes, fancy LEDs, strangely misplaced buttons, sizes and oddly unnecessary features, the world of computing mice is filled with options to satisfy anybody from the hardcore gamers to soccer moms. The Logitec Cube has its own niche. Lightweight, simple, elegant, More >

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Must see League of Legends videos

With the burst of League of Legends popularity over the last couple years, many have begun creating Machinema, or Video Game Movies, with a wide array of focuses. Such names as the hilarious Wowcrendor, Grasshyrenn, and many others have been posting great videos on YouTube and entertaining us all More >

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Steelseries Fire Sale! Get everything you wanted NOW!

In celebration of of the Quad leap year as hinted just a few days ago on Steelseries’ Facebook, Steelseries is having a sale of up to 65% off on select products. Hurry in and grab what you want, with great products like the Siberia V2 (My personal headphones of choice) going for only $35. This More >

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Review: Warpia ConnectHD SWP400VC – Couch Skyping at its finest

First unveiled at CES 2012, the Warpia ConnectHD SWP400VC is an all-in-one solution to wireless streaming, video conferencing, and high definition recording. Utilizing a wide angle webcam and multidirectional microphone, the ConnectHD allows video chat at 720p with wireless streaming at 1080p.

The More >

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Kingston HyperX 120g SandForce SF-2281 SSD Review

Why, oh great tech gods, why have I not done this sooner. Seeing the SSD craze at CES this year, we have decided it was about time we got our hands on one and saw what all the hubbub was all about. For those unaware, an SSD (Solid State Hard Drive) is exactly as the name describes. The hard drive More >

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Vessel preview: A drink of fresh water for puzzle platformers

At first glance Vessel will seem like your average run-of-the-mill puzzle platform shooter, but this is neither a shooter and is definitely nowhere near average. Strange Loop Games brings us a beautifully rendered side-scroller with some of the most interesting puzzles since Portal.

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Bleach: Fade to Black – Blu-ray review

Swords, Shinigami, Baddies and Bankai ring a bell? Well if you’re already a fan of the Bleach series than none of these should be new to you except maybe the baddies, but we need those too. But first let me explain the series a bit in a familiar rap.

Now this is a story all about how His life got More >

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Kinect SDK 1.0 for Windows Shipping out!

As previously announced at CES 2012, the Windows SDK 1.0 Kinect Hardware will be available as of today and begin shipping out for the price of $249. But do not let this discourage you, if you can convince Microsoft that this is for educational purposes than you get a $100 discount!

 

The SDK More >

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Trion Worlds Announces Rift “Lite” FTP

As of Feb 1, 2012, Trion World’s massive MMO Rift has become unlimited free to play up to level 20! Thats right, no limits to anything you can do other than leveling past the cap. This move could have many positive and negative effects on the MMO. Let us examine some pros and cons of an MMO More >

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Guild Leaders of SWTOR, Unite!

Bioware has just announced that they will be hosting a guild leader summit in Austin, Texas from March 4th to the 6th. The event is invitation only, but any guild leader may apply at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SWTORGuildSummit. Guild leaders from all over the world will gather for these couple More >

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Starbucks, DAFUQ?!

A Caramel Maccihato, three shots, extra sauce, maple scone, and free wi-fi, good as it gets, right? Well along with this heavenly combination, I also enjoy taking a few puffs of my electronic cigarette, when the store manager told me it is against Starbucks policy to do that indoors. Apologizing More >

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Gunnar Optiks at CES 2012

Gunnar Optiks, creators of the beloved Scope and pioneers in the field of gaming eye-wear, showed us something very different this year at CES 2012.

The first big surprise was when we heard rap superstar 50 Cent is an active investor in Gunnar! With their new line of trendy and flashy gear, is More >

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League of Legends: Intel Extreme Masters in Kiev!

This week in the Russian cold, the world’s top LOL teams compete for the Intel Extreme Masters tournament with a very generous grand prize. The Competing teams are as follows :

Group A Wins Losses Team SoloMid 3 0 SK Gaming 2 1 Curse Gaming 1 2 White Lotus 0 3 Group More >
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Cyborg MMO 7 Preview

Many of us know and love Cyborg for their great R.A.T series gaming mouse ( The one that looks like a stealth bomber). While unable to get my hands on one of these in the past, I was able to play around with the newest release by Cyborg, the MMO 7.

In actuality this is a redesigned R.A.T 7. The More >

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Lightning Strikes Before Thunder, AMD’s Lightning Bolt

With all the news about Intel and Apple’s Thunderbolt wiring technology, we were sure it was the wave of the future. After meeting with AMD today at CES 2012, we had an extremely pleasant awakening. Named Lightning Bolt, this is AMD’s direct answer to the emerging technology. Simply, it’s More >

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Ballistic, Feel Free to Drop Your Devices

Ballistic, infamous provider of the industry’s toughest and hardest phone cases has opened up to us at CES 2012 and shown us just how much of a beating their products can take. Their new line includes:

Ballistic Hard Core (HC) Series Case Layer Description: • Layer 1: Built-in screen protector • More >

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Steelseries at CES 2012, DOTA 2!

As the title so enthusiastically suggests, yes, Steelseries has fully secured the contract with Valve and DOTA 2 as the official peripheral provider. So far this only includes a mousepad, but it is highly hinted that they plan to take this contract much further in terms of peripherals, More >

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Intel at CES 2012: Ultrabooks Now!

With quite the comedic intro, Intel kicks off CES 2012 with some of the biggest announcements of day 0. As Mooley Eden, Vice president of general manager, entered a stage full of unrecognizable notebooks, there were plenty of premonitions, all of which were highly underrated.

Intel’s vision for More >

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Steelseries Diablo Edition Siberia V2 / Xai Review

While Diablo III lingers in the months to come, little other than the beta has been shown to those patiently waiting for this epic sequel. But thankfully , we finaly have something to curb our hungers. Steelseries, has taken up arms with Blizzard to give us something dark, demonic, and absolutely More >

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