Tweet Normally the week before Christmas is pretty quiet as far as major releases go. A couple generic titles might make an appearance, but with gifts already purchased a major game would do better releasing in the new year. Star Wars: The Old Republic is breaking this trend in a big way. This isn’t...

Tweet There was a time not to long ago when the market was absolutely flooded with World War 2 shooters. This changed when Infinity Ward made the somewhat gutsy decision to move their franchise shooter Call of Duty into the current era with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. After that the copycats followed...

Tweet Game Time: City of Heroes: Going Rogue (PC) In any MMO, the player may come to dislike something about their character (toon, avatar, etc…) well my character Funky Sunshine suffered this and got little play from me. I loved his background. Who could not love a 20 something young man, trained in...

Tweet According to this tweet, and as reported on the Unknown Gamer blog, Magicka, the new sensation from Paradox, is getting PvP. As soon as they finish up the Magicka: Vietnam expansion, they’ll be putting out the player vs player additions. According to Shams Jorjani, Magicka’s...

Tweet Gamers probably spending 90% of there time killing three groups of creatures: aliens, terrorists and zombies. This weeks biggest release focuses on the later of the trio. Capcom’s latest iteration of their zombie killing series is back! Unlike other games that are centered around the living dead,...

Tweet Software piracy is something that really rubs me the wrong way.  As a developer of PC software (not of the gaming variety) it makes me especially irritated when game studios chose to release a game DRM-free as a show of good faith, only to have it exploited to hell and back by the selfish masses. ...

Tweet Well, ALMOST half: Of the 44.8 million PC games sold in the US last year, 21.3 million of them, that’s 48%, were digital downloads. Physical unit sales only just managed to top that figure with 23.5 million, despite a year-on-year decline in physical game sales, notes the NPD report. That’s...

Tweet Coming this holiday season for all major platforms is James Bond 007:  Blood Stone. The latest news from Activision on their upcoming title is the real world identity of their virtual Bond girl, recording superstar Joss Stone.  Stone will be lending her vocal talents to the game in play as well as in...

Tweet Tabletop gaming in the form of a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game is on its way to your PC, courtesy of Bigpoint. Devleoped by Frogwares Studio, World of Battles promises RTS style game play combined with the customization of table top gaming. World of Battles takes place in the the medieval world of...

Tweet Deep in a row of cubicles, away from the loud noises and flashy lights that characterize most booths at E3, sat Iron Will Innovations. Instead of a demo for a secret game not yet ready for the public, they wanted to show off a high tech peripheral that could change the way PC games are played. The...