• Archive for the 'PC Games' Category

    A Big $10 for Limited Edition: Rainbow Six Vegas 2
    Friday, February 15th, 2008

    The limited edition version of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 gives you … hold on this is *so exciting* … pro tip videos, frag dolls, and a keychain (WTF?). If you can’t contain yourself either the box will be on store shelves March 18th for an extra $10. As if $60 wasn’t enough already, now we’re [...]

    Oh Thank God, Now I Can Finally Get Some Sleep.
    Saturday, February 9th, 2008
    PC Gaming is Dead: 2007 Sales Numbers (unless you play MMO)
    Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

    Only one PC game in 2007 sold over a million units (and it’s name is Warcraft). The PC game take of $911 million is a lot of money, but console games had a record year and total sales of $17.94 billion. Another comparison, the #10 console game sold twice as many units as the #2 [...]

    Big Brother Finds a New Weapon: Video Game Reviews for Parents
    Friday, February 1st, 2008

    The internet stinks sometimes, but this isn’t a spam-blog or an ugly made by a friend-of-a-friend site. What They Play is a professional site built for parents, and it’s about video games.
    The site reviews video games for all systems (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, & older consoles) and gives each a rating. None of these [...]

    Gameplay Trailer: Tiberium
    Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

    Squad control, air drops, and mechs are getting us excited about Tiberium. A first person shooter with buttery-smooth looking gameplay and a lot of multiplayer online promise as the in the Command & Conquer line.
    The trailer (after the jump) is early and probably doesn’t have finished graphics (at least I hope they’re not done). We [...]

    Top 6 Online Gaming Incidents. Just Wait Until Organized Crime Moves In.
    Monday, January 28th, 2008

    I’ll never understand why the media and gaming outsiders are surprised by anything that happens in-game or by the weird game-related incidents that happen out-of-game. Especially as games get better and move toward open world exploration and open-ended invention (like scripting new events and motions in Wow or Second Life) people are going to do [...]

    Zero Punctuation: The Witcher
    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

    Yahtzee takes a look at PC game The Witcher this week, and his pain is our pleasure. The game is an action RPG with a complex story line and, from the sounds of it, unnecessary adult situations. If you think the phrase “unnecessary adult situations” is an oxymoron, well, maybe this is the game for [...]

    Assassin’s Creed PC Requirements published by Ubisoft – NVIDIA & ATI Applaud
    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

    As if you didn’t already want a new PC and a faster video setup. Today there’s a whole new reason to make you upgrade.
    System requirements for Assassin’s Creed were published by Ubisoft today. Move over Crysis.
    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
    CPU: Pentium 4 Dual core, 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
    RAM: 2 GB
    Video Card: 256 MB, DirectX [...]

    EVE Online Wants to Hug and Make Up, Free Trial on Steam
    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

    Did EVE Online tick you off last year?
    If you missed the parts where their own developers were cheating in the game or the really big one where their Trinity update killed Windows XP then CCP has a deal for you. Not $20, not $10, now free! Yes free!
    Yeah, whether I’ve watched too many infomercials tonight [...]

    EA Unveils Free Battlefield Heroes – Did I Mention It’s Free?
    Monday, January 21st, 2008

    Electronic Arts has announced an online-only entry in the Battlefield series that will be completely ad-supported and will be able to run “on Grandma’s laptop.” As if I needed any more reasons not to make eye contact at family gatherings — if gramms frags me in an online game, I may have to skip the [...]

    Zero Punctuation Reviews Crysis
    Thursday, January 17th, 2008

    This week Yahtzee looks at the PC game Crysis. When I say “PC,” I’m talking computers, not sociology. In fact, if Yahtzee’s opinion on CryTek games holds any weight, political correctness is the last thing Crysis players need to worry about. Warning: He actually likes the game, so it’s not quite as fun as his [...]