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Monday, March 8, 2010
If you're a PC gamer, chances are you've heard about the fiasco surrounding the latest insidious digital rights management (DRM) system designed to screw legitimate customers... sorry, I mean't to say "designed to combat piracy". Funny now the two always...
Posted at 11:17 PM in Games
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I'm always slightly wary of any game that is flaunted by a major publisher as ground-breaking, particularly when that publisher is Electronic Arts. This is, after all, a company renowned for milking its intellectual properties to death, with an annual...
Posted at 8:05 PM in Games
Sunday, November 29, 2009
In gaming, the phrase "spiritual successor" is tossed around a lot. Developers are always waiting to cash in on biggest greatest hit, whether it's the endless sea of first person shooters getting cranked out (usually populated by gruff-voiced, steroid-abusing muscle...
Posted at 2:54 PM in Games
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
For many people, the greatest casualty of the demise of Flagship Studios in 2008 was not its A-title, Hellgate: London, but rather Mythos, a side project headed by Fate designer Travis Baldree. Originally intended to test the servers that were...
Posted at 1:25 PM in Games
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Over August 21 and 22, Blizzard Entertainment held its fourth annual BlizzCon convention in Anaheim, California, packing all the gaming fun and associated geekery one could wish for into a two day event. The convention, the 200,000 tickets for which...
Posted at 4:49 PM in Games
Monday, August 17, 2009
Hot on the heels of news that the release of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been pushed back to 2010 (come on, is anyone even slightly surprised?) comes a wealth of new information to tide us over, pertaining mainly...
Posted at 12:24 PM in Games
Friday, July 10, 2009
Blizzard Entertainment recently confirmed that their two upcoming games, Starcraft II and Diablo III, will not support local area network (LAN) games. Instead, players who want to play the games' multiplayer mode will have to connect to the company's Battle.net...
Posted at 3:15 PM in Games
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The other day, I completed my first playthrough of Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3, which I previously discussed just under a month ago when I first picked it up. Because of a myriad of other commitments, including my university work and...
Posted at 12:39 PM in Games
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Yesterday, the British Board of Film Censors lost out in a bid to become the state censor for all computer and video games. All ratings duties will instead be carried out by pan-European body PEGI, which already rates the majority...
Posted at 10:23 AM in Games
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Mirror's Edge is one of those games that I've been meaning to try out for some time. Various reasons have conspired to prevent this from happening, however, ranging from its DRM implementation (I'm still pissed about losing one of my...
Posted at 11:10 AM in Games
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Quelling the fears of a lot of concerned gamers, worried by cagey responses from Blizzard Entertainment spokespersons, we now have explicit confirmation from the company's president himself, Mike Morhaime, that the upcoming Starcraft II (due to go into beta this...
Posted at 4:16 PM in Games
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Posts in Games
- UbiSoft's DRM faux-pas
- Some thoughts on Mirror's Edge
- A few thoughts on Dragon Age: Origins
- A few thoughts on Torchlight
- Two days of gaming goodness
- Starcraft II: the good, the bad and the ugly
- This is the way you'll play our game
- Some thoughts on Fallout 3 and the immersion factor
- Bitch-slapped Board of Film Censors
- Once upon a time, X and Y planes were enough for everyone
- Starcraft II will be free to play
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