Archive for the ‘PC’ Category

Interplay has lunched the Fallout Online teaser site you can go to the site by going to fallout-on-line.com.

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With all these press conferences occurring between major game publishers, the PC Gaming Alliance has decided against the having one. Randy Stude, President of PCGA, stated to Bigdownload, that E3 is a trade show for retailers and that while console games and hardware are mostly sold in brick and mortar stores, the number of PC titles sold in stores is shrinking rapidly.

But has he forgotten that one of the reasons PC titles sold in store are shrinking is the fact many of these stores don’t carry PC games due to the non-existence of a used game market for these Games? I haven’t seen a GameStop carrying PC games (outside World of Warcraft) in some time. E3 is also a trade show where thousands of members of the press report–live blogging, video streaming, twittering, etc–what they see and hear to those who consume the media. Should the PC Gaming Alliance have a press conference? In short, yes. Microsoft, whose operating system runs most PC games, are also a member of the PC Gaming Alliance, yet had little to no mention to PC gaming during their press conference. Many PC gamers are left with unanswered questions on where PC gaming is going. These leave a question open for answers, so what is the PC Gaming Alliance doing for PC gamers to help resolve the consumer experience?

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Origins E3

By Peter Blank

Dragon Age: Origins was introduced at the 2009  E3 by Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw. This 1 player  D&D style game, is built on Bioware’s Eclipse game engine, and from what was shown at the E3 has an awesome story line and promises to be one of the best RPG’s ever released. The game play, storyline, and NPC interaction kicks ass, all decisions made, effect how the story goes and how the NPC characters interact with you as a player.

Dragon Age: Origins is a dark heroic fantasy set in a unique world. As the spiritual successor of BioWare’s popular Baldur’s Gate series of games, it uses a pause-and-play tactical      combat system. Play in over-the-shoulder mode, or the more tactical top-down view. Dragon Age: Origins features a stunning amount of cinematic dialog. Players will be able to acquire unique party members. These party members will have their own motivations for accompanying the player.

Dragon Age is set to ship 10/20/2009 and will be available on the PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 and YES there will be a World/Tool set builder for the PC.

DRAGON AGE ORIGINS E3 TRAILER

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Id Software’s upcoming freeware online game Quake Live launches the next phase of its beta on February 24th. According to news from Id, all statistics from the previous closed beta are being wiped, so there’s a fresh slate out there for all you competitive types, and in 4 days you’ll be able to compete to become top dog…or banana…or whatever else you prefer to see on top.

 

For those who haven’t heard of Quake (where have you been living, under an MMO?), it’s a first person shooter that excels primarily at multiplayer fragfests. If you’re an FPS fan, this one’s likely to be a must play for you. It’s browser based, so almost anyone with a Windows based PC should be able to run it. According to the game’s wikipedia entry, Id is working closely with Apple to ensure Mac OSX support, but it’s unclear how soon that’ll be coming along.

 

So who’s in? We’ll be playing Quake Live, but will you? Tell us when you’ll be playing in the comments and we’ll be sure to come online and kick your ass. Or, get fragged repeatedly and tell our mommies we kicked your ass anyway.

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