From July Steam is launching the biggest update
to the platform since its creation in March 2004. Valve is creating a
much more community focused system with users creating their own
profiles, being able to create and join groups, track who they've
played...
Thursday July 26, 2007
Steam for Windows Live!?
From July Steam is launching the biggest update
to the platform since its creation in March 2004. Valve is creating a
much more community focused system with users creating their own
profiles, being able to create and join groups, track who they've
played...
Friday July 13, 2007
Tomb Raider: Anniversary or Annus Horribilis?
Well, getting the chance to once more slip into
those horribly be-weaponed battle-shorts and leap around ruined cities,
massacring herds of seriously endangered species, has been getting us
all excited in the office again.
BUT what did you...
Thursday July 12, 2007
PSP 1.5 arrives
Sony's sexy games handheld/PMP/web browser has evolved into a slimmer and lighter 1.5 version. It seems the company hasn't given up on this PC friendly device even in the face of strong competition from Nintendo ...
Monday July 02, 2007
Why I love Oblivion
Having started playing Oblivion again, because I never really finished it, I was reminded why it's a cut above the vast majority of games, even a year after its original release. Here be some minor spoilers ...
Wednesday June 20, 2007
Ads the way we dislike it
Excuse the pun, multi-layered in its terribleness, but we're too busy groaning over the fact that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is going to have in game advertising to think of anything more witty. ...
Thursday June 14, 2007
Carmack is back
Footage of John Carmack's new game engine has arrived, presented not at a PC event, or even E3, but at Steve Jobs' keynote at the Worldwide Developers' Conference. That's id, you know, the guys behind Doom, playing nice with Apple. Whatever next? Safari on...
Wednesday June 13, 2007
Halo 2. Master Chief or deuced thief?
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, how very nice then...
It's that time of the month where we ask you to critique what we get up to in your lovely magazine. This month we'll be sticking our review of Halo 2 under the critical microscope of our...
Win an Asus graphics card
Just a quickie: we've extended the deadline for entry to the Asus graphics card competition by a week, as some readers have been experiencing problems entering. Good luck!
Friday June 08, 2007
Computex - Episode Three: The Final Conflict
When you've eaten a lump of chicken's blood confusingly called 'pig's blood cake' (okay, so the name should have still warned me off) then you really know that you're in Taiwan. Wash it down with some 'bubble tea', a strange blend of cold, sweet tea and little...
Thursday June 07, 2007
Computex - Episode Two: The Reckoning
Having been up til 4am the previous morning (working, I might add, not simply supping from the corporate PR teet), I was a little late rolling into the press office at the World Trade Centre in Taipei this morning. Jet lag and the Taipei/Computex traffic...
Wednesday June 06, 2007
Computex - Episode One
Greetings, dear viewer, and welcome to Computex. The seriously hot and monsoon-stricken technology fare out in the wilds of down-town Taipei. This first day was my chilling day, checking out the show and the various stands dotted about the city's hotels and...
Friday June 01, 2007
Money talks
The BBC is showing a programme tonight about the success of MMOs and the consequences of virtual items being sold for real world money. We've got the drinks, you bring the popcorn ...
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Having the time of our lives?
News has reached our ears that one of the world's favourite chick flicks is being turned into an online game. We're so excited we quite literally glanced up for half a second while playing Quake ...
Wednesday May 23, 2007
Vista shoots Lara
We're not yet convinved about Vista as a gaming platform, but this hasn't stopped sister magazine, Windows Vista, from beating it's gaming drum. Tomb Raider Anniversary is out this week and to celebrate, Windows Vista: The Official Magazine has the Lara Croft...
Friday May 18, 2007
It's WAR!
According to the government of Estonia, the country is the first victim of 'cyber war' at the hands of big bad Russia ...
Monday May 14, 2007
C&C3: Tiberium Wars or Crushing Bores?
Ah, the time it rolls by so very,very fast dear people. We're back at that time of the month again where you get the chance to air your thoughts about a particular review within the pages of your magazine. And, should you so desire, get your mug in the mag. ...
Wednesday May 02, 2007
DX10 hacked out for Windows XP?
So there are reports floating around the interweb about Mr. Cody Brocious' wrapper that allows DX10 games to run under Windows XP, negating the need for an expensive and, some would say, unnecessary OS update. What are your reactions to this news? Is it an...
Friday April 20, 2007
Football Manager Live - THE footballing MMO
This morning Sports Interactive announced it's new project, a Football Manager MMO. Based on it's genre-leading Football Manager series, and using the match engine, database and tactics from that title, Ov Collyer (co-founder of SI with his brother Paul) has...
Wednesday April 18, 2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl or Shadow of Former Glory?
It's time again for you to say what you reckon to one of the big reviews of the last few months. This month we're looking at STALKER.
What did you think of the review? Was it balanced, accurate or so far of the mark it must've been written by a blind...
Thursday April 12, 2007
XP about to XPire?
Reports suggest XP will no longer be available with new PCs by the end of the year. But with Vista hardly setting consumers' collective trousers on fire, is this the right move by Microsoft? ...
