Eidos has announced another two downloads for Battlestations Pacific in July with new units and maps for tailor made battles.
The Mustang Pack will allow players to customise their battles in single and multiplayer modes, with six new units, like the US-P51 Mustang bomber escort and the Super Yamato Class battleship. It also features 18 new pieces of nose art for craft customisation.
The Carrier ...
They’re running out fast, but beta keys for Cities XL are still available, here on totalpcgaming.com. Simply send an email to tpcg@imagine-publishing.co.uk with “Cities XL Beta Key” in the subject header for a chance to get one - but be quick!
EDIT: After particulalrly high demand, beta keys are no longer available.
Cities XL is the new city-building MMO with offline solo play from Monte Cristo. Check it out on the official website and our full preview here.
Finnish developer Frozenbyte Studios have released a demo of their forth-coming physics based platform/puzzler Trine. It’s currently available on GamersHell and FileFront as a 461MB download.
Trine, with it’s battling Warrior, high swinging Thief and object conjuring Wizard is one of the most charming and promising games we’ve played in a while, and you’ll be able to catch the full review in our next issue. In the meantime, you can briefly ...
A good number of PC gamers are anticipating the release of Windows 7, given some of Windows Vista's more unstable traits, and Microsoft has finally announced pricing on the OS.
Windows 7 is slated for release on the 22 of October, and anyone buying a new PC between now and then can get it installed for free. The Home Premium edition of Windows 7 will be £79.99 until 31 December 2009 but buying it after that date will cost £149.99
Unlike the rest ...
I'm not going to be trumped by Sam "n00b" Bandah's visit to feudal France, so here's something just as topical: my photographic tour of Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Pripyat, taken on a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. visit to GSC in my GamesTM days. I didn't find any artifacts, though radiation on average was ten times higher than normal... ulp.
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The barrage of beta news continues with NCsoft guaranteeing players who pre-order Aion: The Tower of Eternity, their new MMO launching in the autumn, access to all the games closed beta events. Players who pre-order will also get a 48- hour head start on the servers, able choose which they'd like to be on and name their characters before launch. The offer applies to both pre-orders of the standard and limited edition versions of the game. The developer also revealed the ...
Five years and 374 (give or take) expansion packs after the release of The Sims 2, the most successful series in PC gaming history is back for its third installment. This latest addition to the ever-swelling Sims franchise takes the series’ premise of nurturing or destroying virtual peoples’ lives to the next level by expanding its setting to encompass an entire town, Sunset Valley.
Before you can start nurturing your Sims you must first create them with a collection of sublime ...
Not content with the continued success of its original zombie-fest, Valve today announced Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is to be released later this year for PC and Xbox 360. The sequel to one of the best-selling and addictive co-op shooters of recent times promises to set a new benchmark for the genre and Valve believe it will become one of 2009’s ‘marquee titles’.
“A large part of how Left 4 Dead became 2008’s top-selling new IP on Xbox 360 and ...
Ben Biggs goes in deep and hard...
When we’re lucky enough to visit an important developer in the games industry, we’re used to visiting capitals, or at least a major city: EA Redwood Shores, GSC Kiev, Bioware Edmonton, Ubisoft Montreal… you get the jist. Generally we don’t expect to find the studios inconspicuously stashed away in the centre of a relatively small town. But this is where we discovered Volition, inside a smart office block with no grand façade to speak ...
The Cities XL Beta has gone live. Developer Monte Cristo emailed keys to testers today for the city-building MMO, with a limited surplus of 100 beta keys soon to be available from the Total PC Gaming website. Cities XL also has a single player component similar to the Sim City series, but it's the MMO game that will prove the most curious.
For more information, take a look at the Cities XL website. You ...
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All the biggest PC games covered including;
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- The Sims 3
- Velvet Assassin
- Damnation
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- MMO Feature: The Next Big 5
Eidos has just announced the first batch of DLC for their online naval warfare game Battlestations: Pacific, the Volcano Map Pack, featuring Volcano and Choke Point, two new maps for multiplayer.
The first, Volcano , is designed for Island Capture, Competitive and Duel multi-player modes and set to the backdrop of a series of Hawaiian style volcanic islands at dawn.
Island capture will see players battling to capture the islands and their huge ...
Publisher Frogster has announced that its free to play Warcraft-style MMO Runes Of Magic will receive an expansion this September. Chapter II – The Elven ...
I recently went to Paris, to get a look at a third person adventure game called Risen, by German developer Piranha ...
