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LifestreamBungie has confirmed that the soon to be completed port of Halo 2 for the PC will only play on Windows Vista. Or “ship exclusively for the Windows Vista platform” as they so surreptitiously put it. Bungie apparently wants to offer the “optimal gameplay experience.” I call bullshit on that as well as on their [...]
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Gamespy actually manages to put together a well-rounded list of games and sorting out the bad apples as well.
Gamespy - PC Top 10 Games of the Year
1. Civilization IV
2. Battlefield 2
3. Call of Duty 2
4. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
5. Age of Empires III
6. Guild Wars
7. F.E.A.R.
8. Freedom Force vs. the 3rd Reich
9. SWAT 4
10. [...]
In principle, I could agree with the basic premiss. But as the article says, most violent crime is committed by kids who have never owned an XBOX or whatever. They just come from a crappy background and you can be sure that the American society, or indeed the Swedish for that matter, wouldn’t be interested [...]
War Rock is a new online game that closely mimics, say Battlefield, with the slight difference that it is free. Made by a Korean company called Dream Execution. I find this development extremely hopeful, with Korean companies just don’t giving a damn about fees and shrink wrapped boxes when Blizzard and Sony charges about $15 [...]
Silkroad Online MMORPG. Unfortunately I and a million others it seems found the game via Digg and so the servers are now basically clogged. As such I have been unable to evaluate the actual gameplay. The price (FREE) and the screenshots [ 1 | 2 | 3 ] have to do the talking for now. [...]
Highly rated for being a franchise game.
Gamerankings (80%) Star Wars Battlefront II improves upon the original game’s single-player experience with open-ended, mission-based objectives inspired from all six Star Wars films.
The compelling storyline spans more than 12 new locations, many from Episode III, including volcanic Mustafar and the space battle above Coruscant. All-new classic movie moments [...]
Researcher from the University of Illinois (USA) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) have just wrapped up a long-term study of online videogame playing. Yes, another one. The conclusion? No substantial correlation to real-world aggression.
PhysOrg - After an average playtime of 56 hours over the course of a month with “Asheron’s Call 2,” a popular [...]
It would be great if game releases were spread more evenly across the year. As it stands it’s hard to keep up. Concessions have to be made, games have to take priority over real life. And you still don’t have time to look at every release. It’s crazy.
Recently we’ve had Quake 4, F.E.A.R., Pro Evolution [...]
It’s out and it is getting rave reviews.
IGN — 9.4/10 — The original Civilization is among the most enjoyable, influential games of all time. Its sequels have sought to build upon the basic model by adding greater levels of complexity and streamlining the interface. And though the sequels were definitely great games, they were still [...]
Not breaking news perhaps but Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, of Slashdot fame, got his screen name (”CmdrTaco”) revoked in World of Warcraft because it violated Blizzard’s hoity-toity policy.
Slashdot - My Azgalor Paladin is running through Stormwind when I get a message from a GM proclaiming that my account is in violation of Blizzard policy [...]
