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Earlier today Steam posted the System Requirements to run the PC version of Batman: Arkham City when it launches next month. While we don't get a "Minimum" or a "Recommended" setting, we do have a very basic idea on what's going to be needed to run the game. Read More »
Communicating with your squad was a chore in the Battlefield 3 beta, what with no VOIP and the Commo Rose conspicuously absent. And while VOIP will not be in the game at launch (party chat will still go through Battlelog), DICE has confirmed that the Commo Rose will make its return to the franchise in a day-one Battlefield 3 patch. Read More »
Interested in getting a good, long look at Valve's next installment in its hallowed Counter-Strike franchise? Look no further. Courtesy of the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge, we've got an hour's worth of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gameplay footage. Get your ticket into the tournament within. Read More »
Along with the new co-op Survival Mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the biggest new features the shooter offers are found in its Strike Packages. Whether you're a lone wolf, a team player, or a CoD expert, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games have a Strike Package for you. See the devs talk about them all within. Read More »
BioWare recently opened up Star Wars: The Old Republic's early Origin Worlds levels to journalists, giving us the most lengthy, personal experience we've had with SWTOR to date. And while Electronic Arts is keeping an NDA lid on a number of features we'd love to tell you about, the publisher is allowing us to share a great deal. Click on through to learn how GameSpy's Mike Nelson and Mike Sharkey fared in their online adventures in a galaxy far, far away. Read More »
Let's get this out of our systems right now. For all of its focus on a well-written story, its player ships, and a fortune's worth of excellent voice acting, BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic still feels very much like that hulking leviathan created by the boys at Blizzard, especially in its earlier expansions. It's true. Indeed, if you're looking for an MMO that challenges conventions of how you level, how you fight, and even how you interact with other players, you'll be better off looking elsewhere (maybe even at Guild Wars 2). Rather than bash it for unoriginality, however, I'm here to argue that that's not such a bad thing. Read More »
The folks at BioWare did something a little crazy recently -- they allowed us to preview the first few levels of the Republic side of Star Wars: The Old Republic at our own leisure (and just in time to steal some buzz from BlizzCon, too). It also gave us the chance to see if four of SWTOR's most hyped aspects really made the game as unique as we've been hearing -- specifically its story, extensive voice acting, science fiction setting, and unique use of companions. They're unique, all right, but are they unique enough? Read More »
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Being a PC gamer isn't always fun. Sure, we get crisp 1080p visuals running at framerates that make a Bullet train feel slow, but we also have to wait longer than our lucky console brothers to get our mitts on many of the latest games. Take Sony's Pay Day: The Heist for example; it's been out on the PS3 for a couple of days already, yet PC gamers are still waiting to get our bank robbery on. Thankfully the wait for the PC version isn't approaching Arkham City levels; turns out PC gamers will have access to the game tomorrow, the 20th of October! Read More »
We love it, you love it, everybody loves Paradox's Norse Mythology infused, vampire-free, action adventure game, Magicka. Now it's time to show your love for the four-player co-op vampire fest with these Magicka wallpapers. Check that. We meant to say "four-player co-op wizard fest." Ahem. Yup, it's Wallpaper Wednesday at FilePlanet, and three Magicka wallpapers from our sister site are just a click away. Read More »
I'll be honest with you: I don't like 3D technology. Call me an old fogey but I still think the tech is a gimmick, especially for films. I can however, get behind the 3D gaming experience if the design aesthetic warrants it. This leaves the responsibility to companies like NVIDIA to prove that it's a worthwhile tech for the consumer to invest in. If they can manage that, perhaps the games and players will follow suit. Read More »
The countdown is officially on, with Battlefield 3 set to launch on Tuesday. DICE continued to make that day seem very far away today with the launch of a new trailer that provides a glimpse at all nine multiplayer maps the shooter will be released with, as well as the four maps included in the Back to Karkand expansion. Click on through to see them all for yourself. Read More »
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Admitting that it bit off more than it could chew and lost touch with its core franchise, Eve Online developer CCP announced today it is reorganizing, and as a result, 20% of the studio's workforce has been laid off. Hit the jump for details. Read More »
A heckler's cry of "Origin sucks!" greeted Electronic Arts' Peter Moore as he began his presentation at the EB Games Expo in Australia over the weekend -- a comment Moore easily could have ignored, but instead decided to address head on. Read More »
Gamers and laptops have always had a love-hate relationship. On the one hand, being able to take our hobby with us on the road makes traveling so much more enjoyable, on the other hand, spending tons of money on a portable system when we could use that to power up our home PCs can seem redundant or outright unnecessary. Taiwanese hardware manufacturer MSI has tried to solve that dichotomy for us by shipping a series of laptops that are as powerful as home PCs -- for not that much more money. In theory, this will be a best-of-both-worlds situation: we get portability, power, and price point (I couldn't think of any more "p" words, sorry). But while MSI, admirably, does get most of the way there, the GT 780 DXR has a few foibles that prevent it from being the perfect middle ground. Read More »
CCP Games is more nation-state than developer, and see more interesting player debates than most. We got to speak with their Texas-born director of communication and public relations, Valerie Massey, after her excellent GDC Online presentation about surviving a crisis. Read More »
Mindless drones or highly-trained warriors? We test the singleplayer to find out.
Just another id tech demo, or a fully fledged gaming experience? Read our review to find out.
Winter is coming, and it seems quality has been left out in the cold.
Middle Earth gets a little bit bigger in the latest expansion to the hit F2P MMO.
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