New week, new games. Blah blah blah. . . we should all know the drill by now. Every monday I post the brand new spanking games you’ll be able to enjoy on your PC and this week we have a couple good’uns and a couple bad’uns. Take em or leave em. Enjoy the list below:
Not sure if I’ll be picking anything up this week. Obviously the strongest title is Jericho and it does look fun but still I’m not really feeling it, y’know? In anycase the 2 xpacs we have this week will surely sell to those who loved the original games. Enjoy!
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Hey guys, sorry I haven’t posted anything in a few days. I have been at E for All in Los Angeles. Normally in those situations I’d end up just writing news at night but I was so tired each day that I usually just crashed.
In any case, I am back and will begin the normal schedule. There were some really really neat things that were showcased at E for All and I’ll be writing about those in a bit.
And he LOVES it! Well love is a strong word. He generally liked Episode 2 and thought Team Fortress 2 was a very polished game. However, the whole love affair between ZP and The Orange Box comes straight from Portal. He absolutely had nothing bad to say about the game and even admitted that he loved it. Shocking words coming from the man who it seems hates every videogame ever created (except for Half Life 2 apparently). In anycase the video is well worth the watch. Enjoy!
In an unusual departure from what we usual blog about here on PCG:I, we have decided to bring up an important issue not only to your PC but also to your world. In conjunction with Blog Action Day, we have decided to provide some helpful hints on how to green your PC. Most of the time people don’t realize just how much power the PC uses, when it probably uses more energy than anything else in your house, even your television. This goes doubly true for gaming PCs which usually rely on power supplies with 700W+. Check out the list below:
- Hibernate. This is probably the easiest thing you can do to green your PC. Set up a hibernation mode that occurs when the computer sits idle for 10 minutes.
- Turn the PC and monitor OFF when you are not using it.
- Try not to overclock your processor. Usually it doesn’t add that much graphical prowess and yet wastes much more energy.
- Do you really need 2 Nvidia 8800 GTXs? The SLI feature, while debatable in performace, definitely takes up more energy. One graphics card is enough.
- Recycle, recycle, recycle. Done with that PC? Do not throw it away, instead recycle it at a known electical components recycling plant.
These are the five easiest things you can do to help green your PC and at the same time, help green the world. Less energy usage means less strain on the planet.
To find out more about the Blog Action Day go HERE.
A decidedely less exciting week than last’s, but still packed nonetheless. This week we bring you a total of seven games for your enjoyment. Most seem to be not-quite-so-bad either, which is definitely a good thing. This week we have chosen Fury as our cover game. It is obviously the biggest title this week and shows a lot of promise over what traditional MMOs bring to the table. Anybody who likes PVP should definitely check it out. Anyways onto the list:
Exciting week. The only surefire title I’ll be picking up this week is the Heroes of Might and Magic 5 expansion. I love those games and this one is coming with a lot of extras, including a new faction and an alternate upgrade to every unit in the game. A welcome departure from the traditional HoMaM formula. Enjoy!
Well just two demos actually. As of sometime late last week (I forgot to report on it), both the demos for the highly anticipated FPS deathmatch game, Unreal Tournament 3, as well as the less anticipated but still anticipated nonetheless action FPS game, Timeshift, were unleashed to the public to be gobbled up and critiqued by the general populace. It is a dog eat dog world out there.
Both games promise an awesome experience but also different. UT3 is your typical deathmatch multiplayer game where you run, gun, and shoot everything you can possibly find at your opponents. Timeshift, however, is a more story-based FPS where you get to actually control time, rewind, fast forward, etc. You use these powers to complete your various objectives. The multiplayer is also promising the ability to manipulate time via time bubbles. Very interesting stuff.
You can download both of the demos HERE.
Shocking news hit us yesterday. Well not to terribly shocking to PC gamers, this was much more shocking to consoles. In any case, EA bought BioWare/Pandemic studios yesterday. While both of those companies are much more prominent in the console industry nowadays they have given us PC gamers quite a selection of games in the past, most famous of which was probably Knights of the Old Republic.
The amount EA bought the two studios is said to be at or just about $800 million. No telling what will happen to the two studios, although knowing EA, they will be forced to multiplat every one of their games to every system known to man. Mercenaries 2 port for NeoGeo anyone?
Check out the full article HERE.
Zero Punctuation is at it again with his sharp, witty reviews of some of the most highly anticipated games. This time around he has his sites directly targetting Richard “‘General’ British” Garriott’s newest MMORPG, Tabula Rasa. The review is, well mostly negative, but what did you expect from ZP? Despite myself being a fan of the game, I find his videos to be hilarious and are a breath of fresh air amongst all the usual reviews being thrown around. So for any die-hard TR fans; take a chill-pill, come back, watch the video, and laugh your ass off. Enjoy!
Shocking news from the PC gaming front! Perpetual Entertainment has decided to put Gods & Heroes (their main MMORPG) on indefinite hold. What does that mean? Well, if you listen to any other company that puts their games on indefinite hold (Blizzard, EA, etc) then it probably means the game has been cancelled. Probably the most shocking aspect about this, however, is that the game was nearly finished. It was slated with a Q4 07 or Q1 08 release, and just from the videos and screenshots alone you could tell a lot of work had been put into the game. It is such a shame. . . I was actually looking forward to playing it.
Check out the press release HERE.
Most people were thinking that this would be the game that would require them to upgrade their PCs in order to play. I admit, even I was worried that my *newly overhauled computer might need a bit of tweaking. However, despite what GamesRadar, IGN, Joystiq, and other predominantly console-loving news websites say the specs really aren’t that unreasonable. Check em out below:
Official minimum specs
RAM: 1GB for XP/1.5GB for Vista
Video card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
OS: 2.8 GHz or faster for XP/3.2GHz or faster for Vista
Official recommended specs
CPU: Intel Core Duo with 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
RAM: 2GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS or similar
OS: XP or Vista
As you can see, any serious PC gamer (especially someone interested in Crysis) will already have, at the very least the minimum specs. PC gamers are persistant. . . we love to have the top-notch equipment ho-humming along in our towers. Granted, no oridinary Dell or Gateway will run this game but what serious PC gamer buys a manufactured PC anyways? It is much cheaper to build your own.