Archive for the ‘PC’ Category
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
The Charge:
Hunter. Survivor. Prey.
Opening Statement:
Everyone’s favorite extra-terrestrial Cuisinarts are back, and as per usual, mankind is caught in the middle. Can Rebellion, the studio behind the original PC classic, manage to get it right this time around?
Facts of the Case:
The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has found something beneath the surface of BG-386, a discovery so valuable that even Karl Bishop-Weyland (Lance Henriksen, of course!) has taken an active role in the excavation. When the planet side colony goes silent, the USS Marlow is dispatched on a search and rescue mission. The Marlow however isn’t the only ship in the stars above Freya’s Prospect; a group of Predators has made one hell of an explosive entrance. They’ve got some time to kill, and more than enough prey (of the soft meat and hard meat varieties) to keep them occupied.
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Tags: aliens, m41a pulse rifle, nuke the place from orbit, PC, predator, PS3, Reviews, Xbox360
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
The Charge
Assemble your team.
Opening Statement
The first Mass Effect blasted onto the Xbox scene and revolutionized many elements of the action/RPG experience, from its brilliantly-realized new IP, the revolutionary dialogue wheel and the pants-drenchingly fantastic graphics. Bioware’s anticipated follow-up is here and it is so, so much better.
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Tags: Bioware, ea, mass effect 2, PC, review, Xbox 360
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
The Charge:
Word of Ember blazed across the land, and the town of Torchlight flared to life…
Opening Statement:
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Torchlight is the least original game you will ever play. It is impossible to compare this little game to another, more popular iteration in the dungeon clicker/crawler genre—Diablo, the big kahuna, the head cheese. And Torchlight is okay with this. After all, the game was developed by Runic Games, and two of its members, Max and Erich Schaefer were co-designers on Diablo and Diablo II. They stick to what they know. And you’ll be delighted that they did.
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Tags: adventure, diablo, dungeon, dungeon crawler, PC, runic games, torchlight
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The Charge:
Lock, Load, and face the madness!
Opening Statement:
How many games come along and promise to provide a mish-mash of “Genre A” and “Genre B” and wind up with a watrered down version of both that dissapoints and frustrates. Gearbox Software, those guys behind Ubisoft’s Brothers in Arms series have unleashed their new baby onto an unsuspecting Fall market. Promising a fresh combination of first person shooter and action role playing, does Borderlands cross the gameplay border into awesometown? Or is it better off being detained at customs.
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Tags: Borderlands, mystery game, PC, PS3, review, vault, Xbox360
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Sony’s Everquest II continues to soldier on with the release of the latest game update: Everquest II The Shards of Destiny.
Anyone who’s been into MMO’s for any amount of time (pre-WoW) can tell you that EQII is probably one of the most friendly and inviting communities on the scene, and the gameplay, while not quite so “pick up and play” as World of Warcraft, is user friendly and engaging. I haven’t been back to Norrath for a while, but this looks like a pretty extensive update, and may convince me to reactivate.
Features include:
• Chronomagic: Down-tier your level to experience content you may have previously missed while you were leveling up
• Enter the Shard of Love: For the first time ever, players will be able to explore the home of Erollisi Marr
• All new 4x Dungeon: Test your skills in Miragul’s Planar Shard
• Achievement System: Track and share your accomplishments with other players
• Housing Addition: All houses will receive a new room where you can use your creativity and expand your collections
Log in now and the Shards of Destiny update is there for the downloading.
Tags: eq, Everquest 2, mmorpg, press release, shards of destiny
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Normally, I celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day, by pretending it’s Talk Like a Normal Person Day. Not this year. That’s because the point & click-ers at Telltale Games are making the first episode in their brand-new Tales of Monkey Island series free for one day only, on September 19.
Details are a little sketchy as to whether you’ll need to download the demo first or whether it will be a straight-up free download from their store, but either way I suggest you head over to their official website and check it out.
Because “tomorrow” starts at 12:01 GMT, those of us on the East Coast of the US can get the game at 7:01 p.m. tonight (if you live elsewhere, you’ll need to do the appropriate math).
The most exciting thing about this offer? I finally have a reason to use the Windows partition on my Mac.
Tags: free, Pirate, Tales of Monkey Island, Telltale Games
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel
The Charge:
What kind of driver are you?
Opening Statement:
With the onset of every fall season (which we affectionately refer to as Hurricane Retail), there are several certainties. For racing fans, one certainty is always a new entry in the Need for Speed series. It’s been a while since EA’s venerable racing marquee brand has been worth notice or discussion, but Need for Speed: Shift hopes to change that. Does it stall at the start? Or is this one racer with horsepower to spare.
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Tags: Need for Speed, PS3, Racing, Reviews, Shift, Xbox360
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
These guys are ready! But are you?
With the busy fall season officially upon us, I’m sure we’re all prepared to face a deluge of console software in the coming months.
Sure, everyone is following the big guns, we’re all ready for and awaiting our Uncharted Twos and our Modern Warfare twos and our Assassin’s Creed Twos and on and on. I’m not going to preview or run down the hot commodities here, no, my purpose here is to shed some light on a few other titles you may have overlooked in the stream of sequel hype that preceeds the glut of triple-A high-profile wallet-fodder.
I’m kicking things off with my personal favorite genre. I’m a dice roller, a stat geek, a fantasy devotee with more repeat readings of The Lord Of The Rings under my belt than i care to admit. Join me brave adventurer, or whatever, y’know, as i present to thee, or you, 5 Role-players coming to consoles this fall (marring unforseen delays) that just might be worth your time and hard earned cash, perhaps you’ll see something that looks kinda cool.
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Tags: alpha protocol, Bioware, demon's souls, Dragon Age, Gothic, Obsidian, PC, PS3, Risen, rpg, Xbox360
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