Rants
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. Briefly before the lights went down, he overheard them discussing the glorious future of 3D filmmaking. All three men were embracing the notion that soon everything was going to be shot in 3D – not just big CGI ...
Continued from yesterday. Catch the first part of Lara Crigger's insight into in-game advertising here.
Yeah, big surprise. But what do gamers say? Lara Crigger investigates the truth behind in-game advertising.
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. Both rigidly enforce participating in communal activities and screaming kids; both entail careful advance planning and the occasional wipe; both expect you to travel outrageous distances to socialise with people whom you normally wouldn’t, all to trade trinkets and clothing in an effort to ‘level up’.
(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…
THE ADVENTURE
The second category of modern PC gaming comprises the likes of BioShock, Half-Life 2, Tomb Raider: Legend and so on, as well as more obviously narrative-led genres like point-and-clickers. The unifying feature of these games is linearity, with there ...
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. Because just like with sex, videogamers nowadays break down into two basic ‘genders’ – hardcore and casual. While recent innovations in the console world (such as Xbox Live Arcade and the invention of the Nintendo DS) have broadened the phenomenon, nowhere is ...
I recently went to Paris, to get a look at a third person adventure game called Risen, by German developer Piranha Bytes. Most easily described as a cross between Fable and Oblivion, Risen has you shipwrecked on a medieval fantasy island, needing to arm yourself to survive in the wilds of the island before finding civilisation. The full preview and interview with Kai Rosenkrantz, Audio Director and an overseeing producer at Piranha Bytes will be in Total PC Gaming Issue 21 out ...
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. You might remember Frozenbyte as the team behind the Shadow grounds games.
Being an old school platform game fan, I was instantly drawn to this clever, challenging little game-I only hope the ...
PC Fit is, apparently, publisher Planeta DeAgonstini Interactive's PC answer to Wii Fit... hardly the remit of the hardcore PC gamer, then. Or most guys, or anyone who regularly raises their pulse beyond the effort required to lift a double Whopper with cheese to their jowls. But it's been shifting a tidy number of units on the continent, which is why the Spanish publisher is looking for international distribution partners. The kit includes a dance mat, three fitness programs and five games, of the rhythm-action persuation - so roll ...
The fourth Total PC Gaming podcast is now available for download here. Download and listen to us grill Kelly Wand on Wrath Of The Lich King, talk a bit about Spore and rip into Russ at every given opportunity. Well, he does wear pink far too much.
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