Robert Bowling, Community Relations Manager at Infinity Ward, has posted a weekly Call of Duty 4 roundup over at his blog in which he laments just how pervasive piracy has become on the PC, writing: They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 28, 2007
As terrorist and counter-terrorist activities continue to dominate the news, and as game developers continue to exploit current events as the basis for new games, more and more players are turning to the original to live their escapist fantasies. According to Online Gaming Zeitgeist, Counter-Strike is still the most-played first-person shooter on the PC [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 24, 2007
The FPS has always been seen as the poster child of PC gaming. Innovative titles that pushed game design and game hardware to their limits established the first-person shooter as the go-to genre for the hardcore PC gamer. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom established the rules of the genre; Duke Nukem 3D pushed them [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 22, 2007
Evil Avatar has a great new feature up detailing some of the multiplayer features in the upcoming Turok. It sounds like they came away impressed, and that Turok is on track to be the best game in the franchise yet (which, admittedly, wouldn’t take much). They praise the control, comparing it to Halo, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 25, 2007
According to a thread in our Forums, no one seems to remember a game that helped start this crazy world of multiplayer gaming. Yes, I know we talk about old school gaming a lot here, but I believe it’s important for you kids to know the roots of your favorite online [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 8, 2007
The Turok series used to be respectable, honest. Propaganda Games has been hard at work at hoisting the series out of the gaming garbage heap and undoing all the damage Acclaim did to the FPS franchise. Featuring gorgeous graphics, a return to its brutally violent roots, and 16-player mutliplayer, the upcoming series reboot, simply titled [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 23, 2007
BlackSite: Area 51, Midway’s impressive FPS based on the classic lightgun arcade game, has suffered from some unfortunate multiplayer content cuts, according to a recent IGN preview. While all versions of the game will no longer support the much-hyped online co-op, these cuts have hit the PS3 the hardest. Xbox 360 owners will still be [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 19, 2007
Well, this definitely isn’t always true. However, 2007 is the year of the shooter games. Every gamer anticipated the release of Halo 3 for months, if not longer, but the excitement do not end there. One could criticize the product release tactics of the Epic Games, but where they lack in the strategy of marketing, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 12, 2007
Sega takes a stab at the strategy genre with the release of a beta for Universe at War. With a release date only a few weeks away, how much benefit is there in a beta anyway? Consider it a sneaky way to shovel a demo to you while making you think you’re contributing. Notable inclusions include [...]
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