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IGN: Star Wars: The Old Republic's Dumbest Glitches

By Mike Nelson | PC News | Jan 20, 2012 3:48 PM | Comment

No game is perfect and no game is safe from glitches -- especially MMO's during their launch period. IGN have put together a collection of some of Star Wars: The Old Republic's "dumbest glitches" that have been collected on video. Everything from super small characters to characters having a seizure, they can all be found here. Read More »

IGN: SW: The Old Republic's Dumbest Glitches

A Demo Fit for a King(doms of Amalur: Reckoning)

By Dan Stapleton | PC News | Jan 20, 2012 12:52 PM | Comment

Heads up, demo fans! This 2.6GB chunk of action-RPG should give you a taste of the fast-paced combat of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. I say "should" because I haven't tried it yet, as I'm stuck on spotty hotel wifi at the moment. However, while it's downloading, you can read up on the encounter Mike Nelson and I had with KoA:R last month -- it won't be everybody's dream game, but those who were bored by Skyrim's combat have got to appreciate its fighting-game style (which you can see in the trailer below). Also of note is that this is a new EA game, and it's on Steam -- so EA still hasn't completely withdrawn in favor of Origin. Read More »

A Demo Fit for a King(doms of Amalur: Reckoning)

Interview: Paradox CEO Fred Wester Talks Up PC Gaming, Calls SecuROM DRM "a Waste of Money"

By Dan Stapleton | PC Articles | Jan 20, 2012 8:00 AM | Comment

Paradox Interactive may be a relatively small publisher, but it's defined itself as a PC-first company that goes out of its way to make its customers happy. I sat down with CEO Fred Wester at this year's PDXCon for a refreshingly frank talk about Paradox's ongoing focus on PC gaming, his plan for the future, and the futility of DRM. Read More »

Interview: Paradox CEO Fred Wester Talks Up PC Gaming, Calls SecuROM DRM

See SWTOR's Customizable UI in Action

By Mike Nelson | PC News | Jan 19, 2012 6:35 PM | Comment

Guess what? There's a ton of new content and features still on the way for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Just in case you missed the big content update earlier this week, or all the times the team has talked about upcoming features, or even the well-documented patch notes on the official site, there is indeed a lot of work still being put into The Old Republic. Read More »

See SWTOR's Customizable UI in Action

Enemy Unknown: An X-COM Retrospective, Part II

By Kat Bailey | PC Articles | Jan 19, 2012 6:30 PM | Comment

After years of waiting, 2K has announced that Firaxis will finally be developing a true modern successor to X-COM, and GameSpy is celebrating by going back to the genre-defining classic's roots. Our three-part retrospective will trace X-COM and its covert war against murderous extraterrestrials from its humble beginnings, through its decline, and into what's looking like an increasingly bright future. Read More »

Enemy Unknown: An X-COM Retrospective

Resident Evil 6 Announced, PC Version Confirmed

By Mike Nelson | PC News | Jan 19, 2012 2:34 PM | Comment

IGN reported earlier today that Resident Evil 6 has been confirmed and is slated for release later this year. While both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game have been given a release date of November 20th, the PC version (while confirmed) is simply listed as "later." Read More »

Resident Evil 6 Announced, PC Version Confirmed

Toren Preview

By Nathan Meunier | PC Previews | Jan 19, 2012 9:51 AM | Comment

It's rare when a game's sheer beauty and elegance has the power to hook me from the very moment I start playing. Toren's story-driven puzzle adventure follows the tale of a young girl trapped inside a crumbled tower guarded by the doom-inducing gaze of a horrific monster who watches from afar. But it's far more than that. Read More »

Toren Preview

Paradox Announces A Game of Dwarves

By Dan Stapleton | PC News | Jan 19, 2012 7:14 AM | Comment

Swedish publisher Paradox has just announced A Game of Dwarves, described as "a classic management game with a fantasy twist," for release sometime in 2012. While there's no sign of Tyrion Lannister, GoD looks like it could be pretty entertaining -- it resembles a cartoony, less-evil version of Dungeon Keeper in which you guide a crew of half-pint miners to dig a really deep hole. Somewhere down there lurks an evil wizard who doesn't much like being disturbed. Check out the screenshots below. Read More »

Paradox Announces A Game of Dwarves

SOPA & PIPA: IGN's View

By GameSpy Staff | PC News | Jan 18, 2012 4:15 PM | Comment

IGN is made up of a group of people who love games and entertainment. We are extremely privileged to be able to write about the things that we love, to be able to make videos, podcasts and all the other things that we do. We love to share our ideas and our opinions on matters that are relevant to games and entertainment. So, it's long past time we made our opinions known on the subject of SOPA and PIPA. We are not lawyers and are in no way qualified to pull apart acts of legislation. But, like you, we do have opinions about this issue and recognize our responsibility to share them. Read More »

SOPA & PIPA: IGN's View

Dustforce Review

By Nathan Grayson | PC Reviews | Jan 18, 2012 3:00 PM | Comment

I don't like repeating myself. Games that barrage me with tedious trial-and-error usually end up on the wrong end of the woodchipper. So Dustforce legitimately shocked me when I realized that -- while leaping, dashing, and sliding my way through my 20th or so playthrough of the same level -- I wasn't swearing up a storm. This is a fast-paced 2D platformer that absolutely demands perfection, but it's also something similarly demanding indie hop 'n' bops like Super Meat Boy are not: oddly relaxing. Read More »

Dustforce Review

10 Essential Minecraft 1.1 Mods

By Scott Sharkey | PC Articles | Jan 18, 2012 1:00 PM | Comment

It's been just about two months since Minecraft hit its 1.0 release, but that milestone is still far from "final." The game just saw its first major update since then, full of stuff like cleaned up biome boundaries, enchanted bows, and chuckable eggs that spawn critters. But if that's not enough to keep you entertained then there's always a great big pile of mods out there to toy around with. Read More »

10 Essential Minecraft 1.1 Mods

Max Payne 3 Technology Series: Targeting & Weapons

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jan 18, 2012 12:38 PM | Comment

Bullet-time is going next-gen. In the second entry in Rockstar's Max Payne 3 Technology Series, the studio details how the game's targeting and weapons have been honed to help create an evolved third-person shooter experience. See for yourself within. Read More »

Max Payne 3 Technology Series: Targeting & Weapons

GameSpy's Build or Buy Challenge: iBuyPower

By Mike Sharkey | PC Special Features | Jan 18, 2012 10:28 AM | Comment

To build or to buy? That is the question for many gamers taking their first tentative steps into PC gaming. To help answer that question, we challenged custom PC maker iBuyPower to build us a great gaming machine for under $1,000. They delivered a solid Intel i5-based PC capable of playing the latest and greatest on high settings. But would we have been better off building a similar machine on our own? That's the question we aimed to answer. Read More »

GameSpy's Build or Buy Challenge: iBuyPower

First Trailer for Remastered Dear Esther

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jan 18, 2012 8:40 AM | Comment

A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a mod reborn. Dear Esther, one of the most popular modifications for Half-Life 2, is being remastered, and the finished product is almost ready for prime time. The first-person ghost story now has its official first trailer. See it within. Read More »

First Trailer for Remastered Dear Esther

Alienware Unveils the Xbox 720, er, X51 PC

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Jan 18, 2012 7:21 AM | Comment

It's 4" wide, weighs 12 lbs., and it can run Battlefield 3 in 1080p on high settings at 30 frames per second. It's the new console-sized desktop gaming PC from Alienware, the X51, and it can be yours for $700. Read More »

Alienware Unveils the X51 Small-Form Desktop PC
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