Rants

Where do you draw the line on DRM?.

Total PC Gaming Columnist Kelly Wand makes a compelling argument for developers rewarding online gamers for playing their games – with real money.

True story: at a recent screening of a finished chunk of James Cameron’s 3D magnum opus Avatar, a director friend of mine realised abruptly that sitting in the row in front of him was Cameron himself, alongside Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Continued from yesterday.

Yeah, big surprise.

Tis the season, as they say, when by long-standing social custom in Western countries’ real life tends to assume the worst characteristics of MMOs.

(Confused? Check out Part One of Stuart Campbell’s Hardcore Housewives here.

That’s the trouble with these modern haircuts, says Stuart Campbell – you just can’t tell who’s hardcore and who’s casual any more… Hello viewers! Let’s talk about sex! And by sex, of course, I mean videogaming taxonomy.

I recently went to Paris, to get a look at a third person adventure game called Risen, by German developer Piranha Bytes.

I recently got back from a trip in Finland to Frozenbyte Studios- my first as an official TPCG card carrying team member, (badges, we don’t need no stinking badges!) and got to play Trine, a charming physics based 2D platform/ puzzle game that’s showing a great deal of promise.

PC Fit is, apparently, publisher Planeta DeAgonstini Interactive’s PC answer to Wii Fit.

The fourth Total PC Gaming podcast is now available for download here.