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Starcraft II: Night of the living Zerg
I'm about half way through the single-player campaign in Starcraft II and I'm already bored out of my skull. This is pretty much exactly like every other real time strategy game that thought, hey, let's tell a story! Real time strategy games are a terrible format for telling stories, because the stories exist... »
Star Trek Online knows how to scan a celestial body!
Star Trek Online's Season Two update is now live. It adds a whole mess of stuff -- read about it all here -- but what caught my eye was the scanning minigame add a sci-fi vibe when you're essentially just opening a chest. It used to be that when you found an anomaly,... »
Join Zen Pinball’s spectacular mission to Mars
Check out that new table for Zen Pinball on the Playstation 3. »
The Signal downloadable content stirs Alan Wake
Remember Alan Wake ? I think it came out sometime last year. »
Starcraft II: Getting a little Serenity in your Warhammer
Ah, so that's what Blizzard is doing with the single player campaign in Starcraft II . They're taking their Warhammer inspired universe and giving it a touch of Firefly . From the white trash redneck Terrans in the original Starcraft , the theme this time around is more Western and less country »
Twisted Metal live action cinematics won’t be cheesy
On his blog, David Jaffe lets slip that they're doing live action cinematics for Twisted Metal , the grim but only T-rated driving game for the Playstation 3 that will be the first Twisted Metal since the M-rated Twisted Metal Black . In case you're like me and worried that live action will... »
Everyone in MAG gets a new map…sort of
Okay, there's some complicated math involved here, but I'm pretty sure that everyone in MAG , the Playstation 3's fantastic online shooter, gets a new map. To enjoy your new map, you don't have to do anything. Just join a sabotage game -- that's the one where one team has to hijack vehicles... »
Get a new perspective on Valve’s excellent Alien Swarm
PC Gamer has posted some rather obvious information about how to use the console to switch Alien Swarm from an overhead view to a first person view. »
Games for Windows Live outdated and in need of a copy editor
It takes a while to reinstall a copy of Bioshock 2 , mainly because there are so many ways the Games for Windows Live part of the reinstall can go wrong. For instance, the above message repeatedly showing up when you try to start the game, even after going to the link to... »
Do videogame guns need realism? Crytek artist says "Yes"
The Firearm Blog bills itself as "Firearms Not Politics". Today, it includes a post by Pascal Eggert , an artist and gun enthusiast at Crytek charged with drawing guns »