Get Your DNA Sent to Space
Ever fancy sending your DNA in space? NCsoft is offering Tabula Rasa players a chance to send their digitized DNA in space via a time capsule No, seriously.
Press Release:
Could you be the saviour of humankind? NCsoft®, the world’s leading publisher and developer of online computer games, has announced it will launch the “Immortality Drive” – a time capsule with the digitised DNA of select video game players* and space aficionados – into orbit when famed game designer Richard Garriott travels to the International Space Station in October 2008. Read more
Crysis Wars Unveiled
July 11, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Piracy
According to EA Store, Crysis: Warhead will also contain Crysis Wars. A new multiplayer component that comes with new vehicles/weapons and gameplay modes. Would Crysis Wars/Warhead suffer the same piss-poor after-sales support that Crysis did? Only time will tell.
- Pulse-racing new installment from 2007’s PC Game of the Year*: Play as Sergeant Sykes and experience a whole new side of the battle. A standard combat mission behind enemy lines becomes critical when you discover your enemies have captured something of vital importance to the ensuing war. It’s down to you to retrieve the cargo, at any cost.
- More explosive and dynamic minute to minute game play: new customizable weapons, new vehicles, new photorealistic locations to explore, and a fully interactive war zone to dominate.
- Enhanced human and alien AI: Intelligent enemies, bigger challenges, and all-new ally squad support.
- Includes Crysis Wars®, an expanded new multiplayer experience with new online modes and 21 maps including seven all-new maps to battle it out against other players.
- Crysis Warhead is a standalone release and does not require ownership of Crysis to play.
nVIDIA’s Roy Taylor Speaks on PC Gaming
June 10, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Hardware, Interview, Miscellaneous
With everyone shooting their mouth off regarding PC gaming, it’s about time the graphics card giant nVIDIA said something about it:
I think we have to face the facts - the value of consoles is such that no-one is going to make a PC-exclusive game in the future. Why would they? Why would they ignore consoles?
You can read the full interview here.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures 400,000 copies sold
May 26, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Genre, MMORPG, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases, RPG
Funcom’s much hyped and anticipated MMORPGs has became one of the fastest selling PC titles of all of time — with 400,000 copies sold in the last few days. Full PR below:
Press Release:
Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that the positive pre-order trend has transferred into actual sales, and people from all over the world are now flocking to the most savage, sexy and brutal MMO ever created. Read more
ArmA: Warfare mode available; combined FPS/RTS features
May 21, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases, Strategy
Press Release:
Bohemia Interactive, the developer of award wining computer games and proven training systems for military customers (currently working on ARMA 2, the next installment in its successful series of military games), today released a major new update for its latest military PC game ARMA: Armed Assault (published as ARMA: Combat Operations in North America, also available including the official expansion pack ARMA: Queen’s Gambit as ARMA: GOLD in some countries).
“ARMA has come a very long way since the original release one year ago. Here at Bohemia Interactive we’ve always provided ongoing support for our games but this free update is a truly significant milestone. In terms of stability, performance and gameplay, ARMA is now a distinctly superior game to the initial release.” says Marek Spanel, CEO of Bohemia Interactive.
Burnout: Paradise Crashing into PCs
May 9, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Corporate, Development, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Racing, Release Dates
Criterion Games is porting their latest racing title: Burnout: Paradise onto the PC. This is the first time any Burnout game has ever been released for the PC; The game will feature enhanced multiplayer and community driven features. More information will be released later today during a Criterion webcast.
Weekly Wallpaper Dose # 2
We’re back with another dose of high resolution gaming wallpapers! Each week, we’ll be bring our readers 20 high resolution game wallpapers from 10 games in 4 different resolutions (1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200) in widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) format. Every week, we’ll pick 10 PC games (from new releases, upcoming titles to classic titles) and post two wallpapers related to said game. Hopefully, if you crave high resolution pc game wallpapers, you’ll enjoy this feature. Note: WWD will be published every saturday. Read more
Stardock’s Take on Piracy
March 11, 2008 by Raj
Filed under BitTorrent, Corporate, Piracy
With everyone throwing their two cents about piracy nowadays, it was just a matter before Stardock said it’s fair share too. One of Stardock employees made a post regarding Piracy and their recent RTS Sins of a Solar Empire:
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you listen to game developers, it apparently is a foregone conclusion - if a high quality PC game doesn’t sell as many copies as it should, it must be because of piracy.
Now, I don’t like piracy at all. It really bugs me when I see my game up on some torrent site just on the principle of the matter. And piracy certainly does cost sales. But arguing that piracy is the primary factor in lower sales of well made games? I don’t think so.
Full post after the break. Read more
Tim Sweeney Talks PC Gaming
Recently, Epic Games has a lot to say regarding PC gaming, but in doing so, epic always went the wrong way. We either got dimwitt console producers with stupid haircuts bad mouthing PCs or clueless and sub-par console ports . Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, creator of Unreal engine and arguably one of the most respected and admired developers around, sat down with TGDaily to discuss the current stature of PC gaming. Here’s a snip:
TG Daily: What are your thoughts on the future of the PC as a gaming platform? Is scalability the future – we hear AMD talking about Spider and Nvidia is selling Triple SLI that will keep us upgrading over the next several years. Or did the industry lose its focus?
Sweeney: PC gaming is in a weird position right now. Now, 60% of PCs on the market don’t have a workable graphics processor at all. All the Intel integrated graphics are still incapable of running any modern games. So you really have to buy a PC knowing that you’re going to play games in order to avoid being stuck with integrated graphics. This is unfortunate, and this is one of main reasons behind the decline of the PC as a gaming platform. That really has endangered high-end PC game sales. In the past, if you bought a game, it would at least work. It might not have been a great experience, but it would always work.
Full Interview after the break. Read more
Weekly Wallpaper Dose # 1
Hi,
Welcome to the first edition of weekly wallpaper dose. Each week, we’ll be bring our readers 20 high resolution game wallpapers from 10 games in 4 different resolutions (1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200) in widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) format. Every week, we’ll pick 10 PC games (from new releases, upcoming titles to classic titles) and post two wallpapers related to said game. Hopefully, if you crave high resolution pc game wallpapers, you’ll enjoy this feature. also, be sure to leave some feedback! Read more
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