While console players will be getting their first real taste of the
action Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has to offer, it is looking to
be business as usual for experienced PC players. The gameplay hasn’t
changed much since CS1.6 and CS:Source. You still have Terrorist v.
Counter-Terrorist matches and inventory is still purchased with cash
earned based on your performance each round (kills and victories).
After taking out a full page add in the Wall Street Journal and
proclaiming that PC gaming is very much alive, Razer unleashed the new
Blade onto the world at PAX. The Blade is Razer’s new 17 inch high
performance gaming laptop. The sleek design is achieved through an
aluminum chassis that weighs less than 7 pounds and is 1 inch thick.
While Razer is most notably known for high grade PC gaming accessories,
the company has stepped up their game with this new gaming laptop.
If you’re on the East Coast, you probably spent your gaming budget this week on canned food and bottled water, so you couldn’t afford to pick up Deus Ex Human Revolution at its fifty dollar launch price. Well, lucky for you, the PC Downloadable version of the game is already on sale at Amazon.
Kotaku reports GameStop was instructing employees to open Deus Ex: Human Revolution boxes, remove OnLive codes and sell the games as new. GameStop responded by removing the Deus Ex: Human Revolution copies off of store shelves.
For this weekend (8/25/11), Steam is
offering all Borderlands titles and downloadable content at 75% off.
Yes, you heard me: seventy-five percent off. This means that
Borderlands is 4.99 USD and the Game of the Year version is 7.49 USD
for the weekend!
But what is Borderlands?
Activision will have no one to blame but themselves for whatever Kanye West does on September 3rd at the Call of Duty XP convention. He’s scheduled to “Perform” at this first official Call of Duty con which will occur on September 2nd and 3rd in LA.
Us PC gamers will have to be a little less smug from now on, because one of our best publishers is going to start releasing games for one of the consoles. Telltale Games, the lovely people behind PC exclusive adventure franchises like Sam & Max, Monkey Island and Puzzle Agent announced that they’ll be bringing their products to Nintendo’s Wii.
I Am Alive is a Ubisoft downloadable title that was first shown at E3 2008 and we’ve barely heard a thing since then, until earlier today an official (but unreleased) trailer was leaked. For those who haven’t heard of the game, I Am Alive sets you as a man named Adam Collins who is trapped in Chicago after a massive earthquake has destroyed the city and seperated it from the mainland.
Ubisoft’s recent controversy over the intrusive DRM in the recently released From Dust on the PC has come to a conclusion with the announcement that they will be removing the much hated DRM system.
Since Portal 2 was released, Valve has said that there will be free DLC, both single player and co-op, released in the Summer. Summer is nearly over, now, and Valve has been quiet on any details or firm release dates. That changed at Gamescom, however, and Kotaku has confirmed with Valve that the free DLC will be coming in mid-September.
