"Sega and Creative Assembly have today announced the launch of a new open beta for multiplayer content in historical strategy epic Empire: Total War on the PC." - head over to the site here: http://www.totalwar.com/empire...
- Kol Tregaskes
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"Kicking off Gamasutra's 2009 retrospective, Chris Remo reflects on the year in PC gaming and selects his top five titles -- including Torchlight and Empire: Total War -- plus several honorable mentions"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Dreamhack, a 10,000-person LAN party that just occurred in Sweden, is a close second to a few buddies and some hot pockets in a basement. If you're into this sort of thing."
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
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"Jason Holtman is director of business development at Valve, and is instrumental in the direction of Steam, building publisher and developer relationships and working on signing and marketing games across the platform."
- Kol Tregaskes
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I think Steam is great, it's not perfect but a really good service. I think that I can download my purchased games over and over and on any machine (so long as I log into my account) and I like that it updates automatically. But the poor support of retail versions of it's game is very disappointing and the prices of some games just don't make any sense at all. Prices on Steam need to be cheaper than retail or I'll just go but a boxed version.
- Kol Tregaskes
"Valve's Jason Holtman has said that fears the Steam platform could become a monopoly in the digital market are unfounded, and that the company's own game releases help the platform to grow for the benefit of all."
- Kol Tregaskes
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"It seems oddly fitting, given the ramshackle charms of Gearbox's trailer-park masterpiece, that DLC clearly built around a Halloween theme should creep up on us as we lurch towards Christmas. But if you're expecting an endearing, rough and ready rush-job, Doctor Ned has a lovely surprise in store."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Empire: Total War is going to be upgraded with Napoleon: Total War in February. PC Games Hardware interviewed one of the developers about the multi-core support of the strategy game."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Well you've got one of the compatibility testers here so I'll try my best to guide it so. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Sins Of A Solar Empire publisher Stardock has estimated that Valve's Steam holds a 70 per cent share of the digital distribution market."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"We get our first look at the next Total War game, which will put the glorious career of Napoleon under a microscope."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Naturally, Kol, you know what you're talking about :)
- Roberto Bonini
"Fun combat and a steady flow of rewards make this journey a massively enjoyable one, especially with some fellow mercenaries along for the ride."
- Kol Tregaskes
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I've played Borderlands the last 2 lunchtimes and really liking it. I got lucky with gfx card swaps today while I was doing compatibility testing on Napoleon: Total War and ended up with a Geforce 280 just before lunch. What a good looking game! Great card too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Borderlands is great, a lot of fun. I really enjoy it and would still be playing if it wasn't for the fact that Dragon Age came out.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I thought that little robot would become annoying at the start but he wasn't around for long. Now it's those dog-type creatures and they could become annoying.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've heard this is 40-60 hour game, if you do all of the side-quests... How steadily do the Xbox achievements flow...? (My is Andrew and, I'm an Achievement-junkie)
- Andrew Terry
I'm on the PC so don't know. So it will take me a couple of months at least if I do it at work only. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Wii and 360 face largest declines in unit sales compared to October 2008 in the US, with overall unit sales down 20 per cent."
- Kol Tregaskes
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everyone has one? Hopefully this might mean some irresistible pricing for me at some point
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the Citizen Kane of repeatedly shooting people in the face. The storyline makes less sense than a gas ladder, but in terms of technical achievement, this is an undoubted masterpiece. The visuals, the soundtrack, the level design, the game mechanics … they're all second to none, and they work together to create something that's not so much a videogame as a borderline nightmare experience. The phrase "an assault on the senses" doesn't come close: it's thrilling, immersive, sometimes scary, always exciting, and occasionally downright overwhelming."
- Kol Tregaskes
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Fwd: Objective: Manually Ignite the Engine - I press the button and I'm done. What could possibly go wrong, right? RIGHT? #DeadSpace (via http://friendfeed.com/videoga...)
#videogames - Duders - yes it's pretentious, but I created one more friendfeed group called videogamescreenshots - dedicated for your personal screenshots with or without a comment to it. Feel free to ignore or maybe post your pic at http://friendfeed.com/videoga... - End of message - thx for your time :)
"With Modern Warfare 2 the sixth part of the Call of Duty series has been released. PC Games Hardware takes a closer look at the brand that regularly dominates the sales charts since 2003."
- Kol Tregaskes
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"Twice, Infinity Ward asks if you're absolutely sure you want to see it. The scene, the fourth you'll encounter in the most widely anticipated game of the year, could be "disturbing" or "offensive", repeats the warning. You smile and agree that, yes, you are sure you want to see it. This is a videogame. They give them 18 certificates, but only to appease people who don't really understand what's going on. Sure, the images of violence and bloodshed on Modern Warfare's battlefields can be disturbing to an onlooker, but death in a first-person shooter is a five-second setback, a micro-reincarnation designed to provide challenge and an impetus to improve, not distress."
- Kol Tregaskes
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"Well, are they? It’s a topic which has been discussed a lot during the first half of 2009 and depending on who you ask and when you’ll get a series of different answers – and I’ve definitely been guilty of trying to persuade others one way or the other, which is due to more than just my argumentative nature. It’s a complex issue." EDIT: Listen from 39mins on their podcast about this: http://www.bit-tech.net/blog...
- Kol Tregaskes
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The PC gaming market has changed. It is a great place for indie game development, casual games, and for titles of certain other genres. Consoles allow for much easier development (if you can get permission to work with the dev hardware) and provide superior copy protection. PC gaming will never die as long as there's a kid out there with an idea for the best game ever, because options for making it on a console are limited if you're not a professional.
- invariant - farewell FF
I wish I could answer this but I've not played anything on the PC for 6 years or more and not been following games in general for a similar time. I did get Sims 3 but only recently. Give me 6 months and I'll give you answer. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
all my gaming for 5+ years has been pc-based, and there have still been many ongoing changes
- sentientgames
Just laugh :D If pc gaming dies, how can intel,amd and nvidia and related technology companies keep the sales fit -and so increased ?- Meanwhile nearly all of entertainment dev. companies are funded by nVidia and intel rather than sales shares.
- Acharad Sami vanJoulee
"Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere & was developed on Id Software's Quake III Arena Engine."
- sentientgames
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"Penny Arcade Expo‘da ortaya çıkan yeni Left 4 Dead 2 detaylarını açıklayan Chat Falizsek, ön sipariş verenlerin sahip olacağı bir beyzbol sopasından bahsetti. Oyunda eklenen normal beyzbol sopasından farklı olarak skini ve özellikleri tamamen farklı olan bu melee silah server’da ön sipariş veren ve Left 4 Dead 2 alan birisi varsa tüm oyuncular için kullanılabilir olacak."
- volkan ongun
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böyle canavarlar ile garip yaratıklar ile savaştığım oyunları sevmesem de. oyun güzele benziyor :)
- Oguzcan Sahin
zombi güzeldir olm. yakında modern warfare 2 de çıkıcak. onun da haberini yazayım en iyisi
- volkan ongun
ben zombili değil de cod gibi oyuları seviyorum. böyle canavarlı oyun olarak tek sevdiğim oyun crysis olmuştu. hastası olmuştum, gece gündüz oynuyordum :)
- Oguzcan Sahin
oyun dediğin rpg olmalıdır. ya da turn based strategy olmalıdır. yok hiç biri olamayacaksa, kurtarmayacaksa ugh gibi bişey olmalıdır.
- Engin