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Five Developers We Want Back on the PC

May 25, 2011 | | PC Features

PC Gamers miss out on all sorts of games as more and more of our developers move to consoles. Some of these we can understand (such as Naughty Dog who have always been a Playstation Exclusive developer) but others used to be prominent PC developers who ditched the PC for consoles. It’s a shame that the five excellent developers below have stopped developing for the PC and we can only hope they return to the PC to provide us with more excellent games to play.

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Developer Affinity – Monolith

May 24, 2011 | | PC Features

Sometimes, you come across a game that just sticks with you. The gameplay is always fun, no matter how many times you play it. The graphics will never age for you even though the game is 6 years old, and you’ll never forget the first time you floored a Replica Soldier with a SPAS-12 in slow motion. Fine, maybe that’s a little specific, but Monolith’s F.E.A.R. fits that description aptly. Monolith has also released a plethora of other quality games over the span of their existence and, over time, as I’ve experienced more and more of their titles, Monolith has become one of my favorite developers, and certainly worthy of attention.

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Games To Assure That You’re Among The Chosen When The Rapture Comes

May 21, 2011 | | PC Features

Be fearful gamers! The Rapture is upon us! According to a radio evangelist, on May 21^st the righteous will ascend to heaven, while sinners are sent to roast in eternal hellfire! Having spent most of our lives playing murder simulators, and teabaging virtual corpses in shooter games, we’re all going to fry! But our salvation is at hand, because I’ve found a list of games we can all play to earn some good karma and maybe buy our way into heaven. Read on as though your soul depends upon it!

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I WANTED To Like That Game – Counter Strike: Source

May 20, 2011 | | PC Features

I was first introduced to FPS games when I played Unreal Tournament. Before that I had been a big RTS player and had been completely oblivious to the world of first person shooters. I recently tried to go back and get into Counter Strike: Source (I had played it once before at a LAN cafe and got myself absolutely destroyed by ‘the regulars’) and found that I really didn’t like what some PC gamers call the best online FPS of all time.

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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – New Gameplay Features

May 19, 2011 | | PC Features

There are some franchises that work hard to retain the elements that made them great in the first place while other franchises are always trying to reinvent themselves. Resident Evil is one of the latter and although the venerable survival horror series has gone in some interesting directions in the last few games, Capcom is trying to go back to the series’ roots with Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

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Promises and Results: Does Publisher = Politician?

May 18, 2011 | | PC Features

As a gamer of many years, I’ve noticed a very common trend: Trailers for games that do not include gameplay. Oftentimes video game producers will throw up a few cinematic trailers, talk very little about a game, and then release it with so much baseless hype that people are confused as to what the game even is.

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Saints Row: The Third – Visit Steelport

May 17, 2011 | | PC Features

Saints Row has always been the twisted cousin of the Grand Theft Auto series. The first two games were generally well received due to the hilariously over the top sandbox gameplay and extensive character customization they gave gamers. Saints Row: The Third is looking to follow up on the things that made the previous two great but is also looking to push the franchise in new directions. One of the biggest changes you’ll see in Saints Row: The Third is that it is no longer set in the city of Stilwater.

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Dirt 3 – Not Just Dirt Anymore

May 16, 2011 | | PC Features

While Codemasters has always been appreciated for it’s work, it’s easy to look at Dirt 2 as it’s American market breakout success. The addition of head to head competitive racing made the off-road racer appeal to gamers in the US, and it was universally praised for it’s entertaining racing model. Now, Dirt 3 is on the horizon, and Codemasters is adding plenty of features to keep the formula fresh.

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I WANTED To Like That Game: Dragon Age 2

May 16, 2011 | | PC Features

Dragon Age 2 was expected to be a full-bodied successor to the very successful and critically acclaimedDragon Age: Origins, and while a good game on its own merits, it doesn’t live up to the long-standing legacy that Bioware has so carefully cultivated in its many quality titles. I wanted to like Dragon Age 2, but due to its fairly massive reordering of convention, reduced customization and options as well as the sneaky tricks used to artificially extend the length of the game, I was appalled by the tone-deaf approach with which the studio handled the game design. As a result of these changes, Dragon Age has become much more of an action title than Bioware RPGs of the past; I really thought this game should have been a console-only side-story game, much like how the Fallout series spawned abominable Brotherhood of Steel, another action game strained from the (then) corpse of the franchise. Instead, with only enough content to fill a third of what the developers promised, Dragon Age 2 was released as a complete sequel on all platforms.

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A Game Of Thrones: The Game: Of Thrones

May 15, 2011 | | PC Features

When your book has the word “game” in the title, and it’s about men with swords fighting monsters, you can be pretty sure that it’ll get a video game adaptation sooner or later. Such is the inevitable case with A Game of Thrones, which recently was adapted into a successful TV show, and now the video game A Game of Thrones – Genesis.

Five Developers We Want Back on the PC

Developer Affinity – Monolith

Games To Assure That You’re Among The Chosen When The Rapture Comes

I WANTED To Like That Game – Counter Strike: Source

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – New Gameplay Features

Promises and Results: Does Publisher = Politician?

Saints Row: The Third – Visit Steelport

Dirt 3 – Not Just Dirt Anymore

I WANTED To Like That Game: Dragon Age 2

A Game Of Thrones: The Game: Of Thrones

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