Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a genuine Elvish-speaking Tolkien fan-loony to enjoy LOTRO. It’s an enjoyable and immersive experience for anyone who likes fantasy MMOs, although playing it isn’t going to make you wake up tomorrow with the mystical ability to understand what the hell was going on in The Silmarillion.
Bioware has released another two Mass Effect 2 videos on the official Mass Effect website. There's the character video of Tali, detailing her background and role in the sequel, plus an adept class commentary with lead game designer Christina Norman.
Rock’s latest Xtreme desktop replacement sets its sights on Alienware, but can it compete?
Included in this issue
All the biggest PC games covered including:
Exclusive Star Wars: The Old Republic
Hands-on with Alien vs Predator
Command & Conquer 4: the epic finale?
THQ exclusive – Metro 2033
Reviewed
In-depth reviews and analysis including:
A DX11 first review with DiRT 2!
Getting jiggy in Dragon Age: Origins
Futuremark’s debut with Shattered Horizon
Machinarium, the stand-out indy
Bonus Content:
The complete history of Ultima #2
How to… make HD Game Videos
High-end CPU group test
We know it isn’t Christmas every day, but it looks like someone at Valve has gone slightly festively crazy- which is great news if you’re a PC gamer looking for some ridiculously cheap games. Valve has announced the start of its Early Holiday sale on Steam, where it's offering a different set of discount deals on select games every day for the next week.
This ‘Early Holiday Sale’ is across both individual titles and some pretty nifty ...
Peter Molyneux has announced Fable III but there’s still no sign of a PC release for the series’ sequels. Has his love affair with the PC ended?
If this article was being written by Peter Molyneux, then odds are it would have been much hyped. “This is set to break newground in journalism,” the publicity would scream.“It will contain lots of excitingly fresh grammatical structures and will set out a standard for other hacks to follow for years to ...
Developers dust down adventure classics for iPhone and, in turn, drive re-makes and sequels for the PC too
When The Secret Of Monkey Island was announced for the iPhone, it generated much excitement – especially when it became apparent that a new game, Tales Of Monkey Island, was being released for the PC as well. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, with the iPhone causing more and more developers to take a fresh look at their ...
Official Mass Effect 2 specs are now on the Bioware forums. They're a significant step up from Mass Effect's recommended 2GHz (single-core), 2GB RAM and 7900GTX/X1800 XL specification. Check them out:
Everyone messes up their backups. If we even bother at all, we back up the wrong data or we put it in the wrong place or we do it at the wrong time. When people ask me to take a look at their broken PC, Ialways ask if everything is backed up, just in case something goes wrong. Without exception, the reply is ...
Everyone knew it was coming, but a Ubisoft scriptwriter has let slip the fact that Far Cry 3 is in development. In an interview with Official Playstation magazine Kevin Shortt denied working on the new title himself, but then added, "the team are and what I've seen looks pretty exciting."
Far Cry 3 will likely feature an upgraded version of the Dunia Engine used in Far Cry 2 (a heavily modified CryEngine 2, licensed from Crytek) and it has been suggested ...
Now here's a good idea: a dedicated website that allows players to freely blacklist World Of Warcraft ninjas, spammers and trolls. It's called wowjackass.com and was created by an enthusiastic U.S. player called Sam Morris who simply had enough of people that were spoiling the game for him and decided to do something about it.
...or "Come back to Age Of Conan", rather. Funcom's latest drive to bring players back to its spearhead MMORPG is a repeat of last year's successful re-evaluation campaign. Dip back into your dormant AOC account any time in November and you'll get two weeks access for free with a double experience modifier for the entire period. Anyone that decides to subscribe beyond the period will also recieve beta access to Funcom's MMO in-the-making, The Secret World.
Age ...
Nowgamer.com has a quick and easy competition for those of you that haven't grabbed yourself a copy of Dragon Age: Origins already. Hurry over to NowGamer.com and put yourself in the running to win a deluxe copy of Bioware's triple-A RPG title.
Cryptic Studios have just announced the release date of Star Trek Online, their MMO set in the Trek universe as February 5, 2010, in Europe.
The content in Star Trek Online is set 30 years after events in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis with you commanding your own class of ship during a war between the Federation and Klingon Empire.
The first MMO set in that universe, Star Trek Online is meant to make you feel as though you’re in one of ...
While everyone else who went out and bought boxed copies of Modern Warfare 2 will be playing Infinity Wards much anticipated shooter, anyone who downloaded it via Steam will have to wait until Thursday.
PC Gamers with a boxed copy of the game can activate it as of today however, despite the fact that the two share the same DRM.
Valve haven’t commented as to just why Steam customers have to put up with the delay, perhaps they wished ...
