Category: PC

Crysis gave gaming and computer enthusiasts around the world a huge electric shock. An electric shock that would end up costing between $1500 – $5000 to anyone who got involved. This large sum of money was spent on graphics cards, processors, motherboards, processors, and water cooling units. Crysis sparked PC gamers to upgrade their system…

When it comes to videogame dystopias they tend to fall into two main categories. Dingy and dirty like Fallout and Bioshock, or so obnoxiously clean that you know something is wrong. Much like the Mirror’s Edge series, The Tomorrow Children from Q-Games falls into the latter category. As far as microtransactions go, these ones are…

In 2005, Rebellion released a third-person shooter called Sniper Elite. It was more of a simulator than what you might expect to find in your more typical shooter, similar to Bohemia Interactive’s Arma, or Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint series. Sniper Elite had a huge focus on hyper realistic ballistics, with wind, distance, and gravity affecting your…

World of Warcraft (WoW) is an interesting – and unique – game to assess. Originally released in 2004, the base title has been continually expanded over time, and in many ways barely resembles the version many of us first logged on to eight years ago. Considering that, however, the WoW we play today does still…

In case you missed all the hullabaloo surrounding Rainbow Six Vegas, the general consensus was that it was a fun game that (largely successfully) minimized the tactical nature of previous Rainbow Six games, and upped the action immensely. A lot of people enjoyed it – and then word came that a sequel would be released…

In the beginning, there was Command & Conquer. Sure, you can talk about Dune II and Herzog Zwei but if you’re looking for the definitive, original RTS game that really set the genre alight, there’s only one contender: Command & Conquer. Westwood studios took a fresh, emerging genre and polished it into one of the…

Has there ever been a more opportune time to create and develop an accurate representation of single-seater racing? Hardened champions from Formula 1’s killer years regularly voice their dissatisfaction at the new era of racer, lambasting them for a lack respect of the comparative safety of modern motorsport. The Playstation Generation are as much at…

What started out as a fantasy trilogy and now spans five books (with a planned total of seven in the series), A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is one of those series that has set a benchmark for the genre. Full of intrigue and strong characterization, it is what we…

In a traditional monster and magic-based card game players are restricted in a certain sense. The deck can only have so many cards, each player is limited to using what is only in their hand, and they can only react when it is their turn. In EA’s brand new ‘BattleForge’ players take the card game…

So this is it, the end of TellTale’s The Walking Dead adventure game. Well, season 1, anyway. So how was it? In a word – amazing! In two words – amazingly upsetting; but don’t worry, it was completely in the way TellTale intended. As I have mentioned in my previous reviews throughout the series, this…

Two decades before his Oscar-nominated, 3D masterpiece Avatar, James Cameron was scaring film-goers with his survival-horror/action sequel to the 1979 classic, Alien. Placing a squad of colonial marines in an infested colony with hundreds of aliens, Aliens was a gritty, terrifying masterpiece that set a new standard for sci-fi action/horror. That bar was matched a…

The Asian Dynasties is a new expansion for Age of Empires III, where you get to play as—yes, you guessed it—one of three Asian civilizations: China, India, and Japan. Big Huge Games are involved this time, and they’ve delivered something fresh for AOE III players. With the three new civilizations come three new single-player campaigns.…

For those who can remember that far back, games like Might and Magic (1986), Dungeon Master (1987), and Eye of the Beholder (1991) were the first foray into 3D graphics for the Dungeons & Dragons role playing genre. Innovative for their time, players effectively moved across a gridded environment, one square at a time, fighting…

There’s a problem with Garshasp: The Monster Slayer. To be fair, there are several problems, but the fundamental one is this – I want to like it. And you will too. Dead Mage Inc. have released, at best, an average game. At best. But you have to give credit to this independent developer, who took…

I was attracted to Mount&Blade; from the first time I saw it. It’s an underdog of a game (though some will – unfairly, I feel – truncate that to just ‘a dog of a game’). Coming from a small development team – TaleWorlds, based in Turkey – this Medieval Role-Playing Game was never going to…

Will Wright’s Spore was one of last year’s most innovative PC games and spawned one of the largest collections of phallic-symbol monsters on ever seen. But there was one thing lacking: when you ventured into the space age you couldn’t go to a planet and roam around the environment as you had done in the…

Borderlands is a game trapped between two worlds. On the one hand, it’s a cooperative first-person shooter. On the other, it’s an online role-playing game. While it would seem like elements from both genres could easily meld to make one cohesive game, Borderlands is not that game that does it. Though Borderlands certainly looks and…

People think it’s easy being a blob—all you do is consume a few teenagers making out on Lover’s Lane and pretty soon you’re big enough to terrorize an entire movie theater. The harsh reality is that being one isn’t easy. You have to start small before you even begin to think about taking over the…

The time has come to once again follow Simon Belmont on his quest to defeat Dracula, but the plot and presentation of Mirror of Fate only appears familiar. Beneath its viewable-in-3D, playable-in-2D, surface there is a storyline that walks down its own path, using the original series storyline as a guide rather than the rule.…

Will Wright’s Spore was one of last year’s most innovative PC games and spawned one of the largest collections of phallic-symbol monsters on ever seen. But there was one thing lacking: when you ventured into the space age you couldn’t go to a planet and roam around the environment as you had done in the…