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XBOX360 Tissue Mod
Whoever did this is amazing. ...
I’m OK with the Wii
As you may or may not know, I have a general hatred for consoles. Not because they are evil themselves, but because they have suffocated the PC Gaming market with their rising popularity. However, one console has managed to gain my respect over the p...
We Already Have The Answer To PC Game Piracy
Crytek whines and complains, Ubisoft throws in the towel, Epic…fails epically. But one PC game development company stands undaunted by the terrors of Piracy — in fact, it’s not even something they worry about. Yes, I’m talking...
Building A Gaming PC — Part 1: Deciding to Build
The internet is flooded with “how-to” videos on building your own PC, but is this necessarily a good thing? Yes, many of them have good advice, but for the average Joe (or Jane), deciphering between professional counsel and amateur ego ca...
Sins of a Solar Empire Sells 500,000 copies
Good for them. That’s a significant number considering they did not use any copy protection schemes like many of the other developers have been implementing recently. I actually haven’t bought this game yet, but it has gotten such good re...
PC Games — September Releases
Stop Acting Like Your Parents And Get Vista Already
When Vista came out it was buggy and annoying: programs were not compatible, popups to “allow” your programs to run appeared every 2 seconds, etc. So people decided that Vista was no good and stuck with XP. I however did not. I continued ...
The Benedict Arnold List of PC Game Development Companies
As the title would suggest, AndersonGaming.com is publishing a list of game development companies who have turned there backs on PC gaming. When the going got tough, these companies got going…either by giving up on PC game development altogethe...
FYI — Big News in PC Gaming
Three pretty cool new developments I’d like to share with you: Instant Action Instant Action has done a great job creating free, browser-based games. Not the 2 dimensional Flash games you’re used to seeing online, but genuine 3D games tha...
PC Gaming Alliance is Giving a Speech
On August 19 of this year at the GC Developer’s Conference in Leipzig, Germany, Randy Stude of the PC Gaming Alliance will be giving a presentation outlining the challenges facing PC gaming and the steps being taken to counter them. Among the t...
News Update — GTA 4 Announced for PC
Grand Theft Auto IV will be released for the PC on November 18th in the U.S. and on November 21st in Europe. Many are complaining about the 7 month delay between the console and PC release dates, and although it does bother me, lets not forget that m...
Doom 4 — Better on the PC
Expect this game to be a real hardware hog. I’m guessing it will surpass Crysis as Sys Req king (unless someone else does it first). Even more important to us is that the pc version of the game will “support significant visual improvement...
Fable II: Is Microsoft Lying To Us?
I seem to remember a rosy, uplifting speech from John Schappert (the VP of Microsoft Live) about a month ago that spoke of great “opportunities and growth” with regards to Microsoft’s involvement in the PC Gaming industry. I persona...
Review: Gears of War for PC
Sadly, Gears of War not very impressive at all on the PC….Well, at least they tried. You can read the reasons for this here....
Nostalgia…Remebering the Apple II GS
And I think I have alot of computer games now. Back in the days of the Apple II gs I had literally hundreds of them (all on floppys of course). I don’t even know how I got them honestly, I vaguely remember that my dad knew someone from work who...
Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3: PC Exclusives?
This is a question with huge implications for our Industry. Just think of how many console gamers would be upgrading their computers to play these titles. It would be a major economic boost for us (and much needed). I’ll say this: I will be ve...
Good News from Microsoft
We’re halfway through Gamefest 2008, and already Microsoft has revealed some excellent news for PC gaming. Firstly, all games for Windows Live multiplayer are now free, something that used to require a GFW Live Gold account. I am definitely goi...
EVGA and XFX No Longer With Nvidia?
I don’t believe it for three reasons: It’s the Inquirer There’s no proof (”paperwork has been signed”…….yeah, how bout a link to that paper work, Mr. Demerjian EVGA and XFX are too big. The story would have...
The Survival of PC Gaming
Our industry is dying. We all know that the so called “Next Generation” consoles are driving our beloved PCs out of the market. I could list the reasons why this is happening…I could even list the reasons why it should not be happening, but...
