Tag: PC Gaming
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Game review: Jamestown, an arcade shooter for the modern age
The recent explosion of indie game development has produced a ton of amazing games and has revived several older game styles like the side-scrolling platformer (VVVVV and Braid being good examples). Unfortunately, those of us who were fans of arcade shooters like R-Type and Raiden have been left mostly in the cold. Jamestown:Legend of the…
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Game review: Hero Academy
If you know me, you know I’m a picky gamer. I don’t play a lot of games, but that’s not because I don’t like gaming — I just can never find a game that I enjoy long enough to stick with it. Hero Academy, a turn-based strategy game on iOS and Windows, just made its…
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A Return to Old-School Gaming: Emulators and Retro Games
Back in the early ’90s things were different and, in some ways, better. MC Hammer was lighting up MTV with inflatable pants, Compuserve 3.25″ diskettes were confusing households across the US, and my family’s 66 MHz Pentium PC was a $3500 fiery hellbeast that made the Pentagon as nervous as current-day Wikileaks. And the video…
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Newsflash: Steam Beta Now Open
Attention gamers: The Steam client is now in beta for the new user interface. You can choose to use the beta client by going to settings and choosing UI Update under the Beta Participation section. You will be asked to restart Steam as the update is applied. So far the new UI is looking nice…
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BioShock 2: Purchasing Looks Less and Less Appealing Thanks to DRM
BioShock 2 releases in a couple of weeks, and from the way things are going it appears publisher 2K Games is doing everything in their power to keep people from buying it. Previous details about the game’s Digital Rights Management indicated a tight lockdown, but recent statements from 2K Games claim a so-called ‘scaling back’…