Tag archive: PC Games

Afterfall: Insanity is a survival horror game in a similar vein of the Resident Evil and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchises with a dash of Fallout and maybe even some Metro 2033 sprinkled in, but if you’re not familiar with it, you’re not alone. The game started off as an indie project by Polish fans working under the name Intoxicate Studios, looking to create a post-apocalyptic shooter. In 2008, Nicolas Games saw it and decided to legitimize the… Read More

Video game rental company Gamefly has announced they'll be launching a digital game downloads service later this year during the holiday shopping season. The service will be available for both PC and Mac gamers. The company's by-mail video game rental subscription service is similar to the pre-streaming Netflix of old. Gamefly focuses primarily on current gen consoles such as the Wii, PS3 and the Xbox, allowing console gamers to try… Read More

When it comes to the racing genre you have two options. You can go with the racing simulators— the Forza and Gran Turismo series games— where you can lose hours of your life fiddling with gear differentials, weight distribution and thousands of other things that most of us will never truly understand. Most importantly though is a realistic sense of physics in the actual driving. On the flip side of the coin are the arcade style racers, which… Read More

Electronic Arts used to be on top of the gaming world; now it's not. To reclaim its throne, the publisher is on the hunt for new forms of revenue, and its newest target happens to be the oldest gaming market still around: PCs. In an interview with Gamasutra, Frank Gibeau, president of EA Games, said that a focus on PCs may bring EA back to its former glory. Social games on Facebook are a part of its plan, but MMORPGs and other PC games are… Read More

EA thinks free games are the future. That is, as long as they are chock full of microtransactions–small payments gamers make to obtain upgrades or bonuses. Today, the publisher unveiled Battlefield Play4Free, a fully featured Battlefield title that will be free to download and play on PCs. The game is said to be a more realistic game than Battlefield 1943 with sandbox gameplay, 16 vehicles to destroy one another with, and 32-player maps.… Read More

Soon, millions of people around the world will be kissing their free time goodbye (along with girlfriends/boyfriends) when Square Enix releases the next Final Fantasy MMO next month for PCs. Like all Final Fantasy games (not counting the spin-offs), Final Fantasy XIV is not a direct sequel to any previous entry in the series, but it will be the spiritual successor to Final Fantasy XI as the second MMORPG under the Final Fantasy banner. FFXIV… Read More

Even if you have never heard of Starcraft, even if you despise real time strategy games, this trailer is cool. Below is a new trailer that debuted last night during the NBA Finals. Expect to see this trailer pop up over the coming weeks, but you can check it out here and be blown away anytime you like. And on an unrelated note, if ever there were an argument to be made for a Starcraft movie, this trailer should help bolster that claim. The… Read More

Peripheral and accessory maker Logitech has announced a new set of input devices for the PC gaming crowd: the G9 Laser Mouse and an updated G15 Gaming Keyboard. The G9 Laser Mouse features customizable grips and onboard memory to let gmers really get a grip on their entertainment, while the G15 Gaming Keyboard ships with built-in support for popular games and offers an exclusive LCD screen that displays crucial game info. “Like… Read More

Nearly a year and a half ago I wrote a column saying that Blu-Ray wins or nothing does. This showcases the reality of doing predictions because while the analysis held up, events did not pan out as anticipated and by any current measure HD DVD will end this year with a decisive win. The basis for the prediction, which did accurately point out that Sony’s win here might actually cost them more than a loss, was the PS3 and the… Read More

When S2 Games' new title Savage 2: A Tortured Soul goes on sale this October, the company plans to bypass brick-and-mortar publishing and distribution channels for games to sell the game exclusively via download on the company Web site. By moving to a download-only model, SE hope to both cut the costs of producing and marketing a game and increase the percentage of sales revenue retained by the company. S2 Games is gambling that… Read More