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Sep
3
Free Games Anyone?
Category: PC, General, News, Announcements | 
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Well this sure was unexpected. One of the games industry’s biggest publishers, Ubisoft, announced on Sunday that a handful of their extremely popular PC titles would be available for players free of charge.
Far Cry, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Rayman Raving Rabbids, and Ghost Recon are all available free of charge as […]
Sep
3
Why Do MMOs Need Web 2.0 Networking?
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Obviously, if you’re playing an MMO or other online game, you’re doing a lot of interaction, and managing a lot of information along the way. So do you need a third-party social networking site to help you manage that? MMO blogger Aggro Me has a post called ‘You Got Web 2.0 in My MMO!’ […]
Sep
3
Nocturnal Omissions: art game trailer forgets to be interesting (surprise)
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A link to this trailer for the game “Night Journey” was sent to Ectomo a few days ago, by faithful Ectomite, kid icarus. Paraphrasing his email would castrate its enthusiasm, so I include it here:
I heard a rumor this weirdness was coming to PS3. Reminds me of Ico, so for the monstertrucking* sake […]
Sep
3
Nintendo chief Iwata and designer Itoi talk shop over dinner
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Been awhile, kids — it’s your favorite Linde, freshly returned from the barbaric wastes of Hungary, where goose liver serves as both key component to every meal and a common substitute for drinking water. Them folks are crazy about their goose liver. When I stepped off the plane in Seattle I made tracks for the […]
Sep
3
Brand noo PC game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun, which is already differentiating itself, in my eyes, in being a blog in which all correspondents are enthusiastic about the subject matter, has some amusingly mystified posts about Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn, as Alec Meer examines the graphical update of the now 10-year-old (!) MMO.
The series […]
Sep
3
August 31st of this year marked the 12th birthday of the Westwood/EA’s Command & Conquer series of PC games (well, mostly PC), and to celebrate, the original game is being given away for free on the C&C Web site.
The download is an .ISO file, which creates a playable disc. This download is compatible with Windows […]
Sep
3
Leipzig GC 2007: The mysterious mystery of THEY
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A game called THEY was teasing me for the entirety of the GC. It was one of the first games I made an appointment to see having recieved a press release weeks earlier about it, the last one I got to see over the course of the week, and the one most wrapped up secrecy […]
Sep
3
Bit of a slow week for releases this week. The biggest releases really seem to be between Stranglehold and Medal of Honor: Airborne. I had a lot of hands-on time when I went to the Stranglehold event last month but wasn’t too impressed with the game. I at least got some cool secrets to tell […]
Sep
3
New ESA president Michael Gallagher should do us proud
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Washington Post’s technology columnist Mike Musgrove called new ESA head Michael Gallagher to see if he would be up for a video game showdown, which was really an attempt to see if Gallagher knew his stuff.
Apparently the telecom industry vet has "got game," as he took on Musgrove in Wii Sports Tennis, Halo 2, Guitar […]
Sep
3
Square Enix announces TGS lineup, lists Tobal comeback
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Even more TGS lineup listings are coming out of Japan as we’re now only 20 days away from the event. Japanese giant Square Enix now lays out the list of their wares, and it shows that some classic Square franchises are making a comeback.
The listing Tobal M (pictured above) is an eyebrow raiser… until you […]