By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 19, 2013 10:22 AM |
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Remember World of StarCraft? How about StarCraft Universe? If you remember one of those, you remember them both, because they're the same game, just renamed after some legal disputes with Blizzard. Even if you don't, you may be excited to know that an early version of the "MMO-style RPG" mod for StarCraft 2 is out on Battle.net, as Kotaku reports.
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By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 19, 2013 9:58 AM |
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Here's one thing I won't be doing in March of the Eagles, which launches today: invading Russia. I remember my history classes, and that never ends well. There's way too many people there, it's way too cold, and my Napoleonic-era soldiers aren't anywhere near ready for that sort of fight. I think I'll go ahead and let them do their own thing while I take the rest of Europe.
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By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 19, 2013 7:41 AM |
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From case to CPU, my PC ran me roughly $1,200, so it's safe to say I'm not exactly the target consumer for Nvidia's new monster of a GPU, the $1,000 GeForce GTX Titan. Still, I can't help but salivate over the new card Nvidia says it designed for "gaming supercomputers."
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By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 19, 2013 7:11 AM |
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BlizzCon is back. Blizzard unexpectedly canceled its annual show last year to focus on actually making games, much to the chagrin of purple-painted night elves everywhere. The convention hiatus will end in November when Blizzard opens the doors to the Anaheim Convention Center for the seventh BlizzCon.
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By Matthew Rorie | PC Reviews | Feb 19, 2013 6:00 AM |
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Let's get this clear up front: Crysis 3 is a better first-person shooter than Crysis 2 in almost every way. Gameplay is more robust and varied, the storytelling is more mature, and it's often visually stunning. Unfortunately, it's also not very ambitious: it leans heavily on ideas already established by better games, and as such isn't an especially remarkable experience. Its reach might exceed its grasp in a few key areas, but Crysis 3 is still a largely enjoyable excuse to take a trip to post-apocalyptic New York.
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By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 19, 2013 5:39 AM |
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Gamers have learned not to expect much from co-op AI companions. Keep up, don't block doorways, and throw out the occasional one-liner is about the best we can hope for. Irrational Games will attempt to raise the co-op AI bar with its time-and-space-tearing partner, Elizabeth, in BioShock Infinite, and as the latest trailer demonstrates, she will, at the very least, pack a powerful punch. And by "punch" I mean "tornado controlling super power."
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By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 18, 2013 2:10 PM |
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One of my biggest problems with Far Cry 3 is the complete disappearance of enemies in areas where I've cleared outposts. I really like the sense of constant danger their presence provides. It seems that others feel the same way, as Ubisoft is implementing a patch that will allow us to reset every last one of them, a feature apparently requested heavily by players. Oh, and there's some other stuff too.
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By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 18, 2013 1:05 PM |
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It's a good time to be a fan of sword fighting in games. We've got Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, War of the Roses, and now Blade Symphony, as spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun. While the former two are first-person "shooters," Blade Symphony seems to take the Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast route to sword fighting goodness. That means flips, dives, and flying slashes. Soon, all that goodness will be on Steam.
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By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 18, 2013 11:31 AM |
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When I was but a young child, my father tried to make me understand the value of a dollar. I'll cut out the middle of the story, but the result of the lesson is my ability to wait until games are on sale before I buy them. This week, GOG.com makes that waiting really pay off, because they're dropping the prices on a ton of classic games like Myst: Masterpiece Edition, The Incredible Machine, and Outcast.
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By Taylor Cocke | PC News | Feb 18, 2013 10:22 AM |
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Look, Dean "Rocket" Hall. We love DayZ. We appreciate the mod, and think it's pretty great. You really didn't have to go through all this trouble of making the standalone product so darn awesome. The fact that you've been completely remaking the zombie survival shooter from the ground up is completely unnecessary. Oh, you went ahead and did it anyway? Well, you're just the best.
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By Katie Williams | PC News | Feb 17, 2013 6:44 PM |
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Gosh -- the cars in the upcoming GRID 2 are so exquisitely curved and shiny that I kind of want to stick my weathered old Honda Civic in there for "character." Then again, I'm guessing my humble sedan can't rev quite like the babies in this new gameplay trailer do.
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By Katie Williams | PC News | Feb 17, 2013 3:57 PM |
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I like how this faction-by-faction reveal of Total War: Rome 2 gets a little more barbaric each time. We've seen plush feathered headdresses devolve into ankle-tattoos-on-shields and now? People are totally wearing
dogs
on their heads. Say hello to the Suebi, a tribe so barbaric that they seem a-okay with sauntering into battle shirtless.
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By Katie Williams | PC News | Feb 17, 2013 12:27 PM |
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Huggable-looking 16-bit critters? Yeah, that's not what I'd have expected to find on the front page of a certain famed torrent website either. Yes, it's a videogame promo for Zelda-esque indie adventure Anodyne, but it's also sort of an interesting remark on the state of videogame piracy.
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By Katie Williams | PC News | Feb 17, 2013 11:59 AM |
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Poor, poor Ace of Spades. The Minecraft-meets-TF2 concept had such promise, but only managed to scrape up a poor-at-best rating in
GameSpy's review
. Will this gangster-themed "Valentine's Day Massacre" DLC help at all in patching up our massacred hearts?
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By Katie Williams | PC News | Feb 17, 2013 10:51 AM |
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Got four USB controllers lying around? Good. Grab (or make) some friends, too -- you'll need 'em all for Moth Kidz, a warm fuzzies-inducing indie adventure that explores the power of friendship.
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