Archive for the ‘pc’ Category

First Look: Family Guy Online

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

This is almost like the time they made a Facebook game out of a popular TV show. Except it isn't. Family Guy Online isn't your standard social grind. It's not even a Facebook game. It's a graphically convincing free-to-play browser-based RPG with plenty of character, TV-showness and gameplay challenges...

Seven Ways to Expand Skyrim

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Many are still busy plowing through the insane amount of content included in Skyrim. Maybe you're not one of them. Maybe you've unlocked and spent every perk point, cleared every dungeon and punched every NPC in the nose. Maybe you've tried out every mod and are looking for more. Bethesda ...

‘Special Surprise’ Incoming for Skyrim PC Players

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Bethesda's Creation Kit for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be made available on February 7, according to a Twitter update by VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines...

Guild Wars 2 Beta Coverage on the Way

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Good news, we just received an invite to play in an upcoming round of beta testing in ArenaNet's highly anticipated Guild Wars 2. Unfortunately we can't share, but you can expect plenty of coverage to hit on Monday, February 20 at 6 AM Pacific...

Valve Working on Team Fortress 2 Secret Project

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

An update posted to the Team Fortress 2 blog teases "something brand new" for Valve's free-to-play online shooter. No word yet on what it is, but Valve did say it wasn't a hat, and it wasn't a new map. Could it be a new class? A new layer to its ...

The First 90 Minutes of Mass Effect 3

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

When I first started playing Mass Effect, I set out to behave like a stony-hearted space-bitch. I was going to take the universe for everything it had: credits, loot, fame, blue ladies, the lot. It didn't last long. By the beginning of Mass Effect 2, my red-headed Shepard whom ...

The Evolution of Counter-Strike’s de_dust

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Valve's ever-popular competitive shooter Counter-Strike has been around for over a decade. The latest iteration of the franchise, Global Offensive, is currently in closed beta testing on PC. Though not all features are currently built into the beta, the classic de_dust and de_dust2 maps are...

Game of Thrones RPG Launches in May

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Publisher Atlus announced that Game of Thrones, a new role-playing game from Cyanide Studios based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy fiction, will launch on May 15 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC...

Spec Ops: The Line’s Breakdown of a Soldier

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

"Walker, at the beginning of the game, is specifically meant to invoke other military shooters," says Walt Williams, the lead writer on 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line. "We want the player to feel that they're walking into a situation that they know what it's going to be. Like, 'I ...

EA’s Syndicate Will Not Use Online Pass

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

It is now common practice for Electronic Arts (EA) to include an online pass in new copies of its games that must be activated in order to access online features. However, Syndicate, which EA will publish later this month, will arrive free of any online pass. A producer at EA ...

Wakfu Premium Pricing Plan Revealed

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Ankama's Wakfu, a turn-based tactical MMO set to launch in North America on February 29, will be free to download but also include premium options. Publisher Square Enix has revealed the pricing plan for Wakfu, which includes a subscription alternative...