My PC is a bit over five years old now. I built it to last, but for the last year or two it’s had more and more trouble running modern games on it. I do plan to upgrade when I finally find full-time work, but for right now she serves me well. However, sometimes a [...]
Wow guys, another awesome deal I felt the need to share with y’all! Steam is having a sale on Frozen Synapse wherein you can get this AMAZING game for only $12.99 for the base version, or $14.99 for the version which includes the amazing soundtrack. I’ve written about Frozen Synapse before, and while I still [...]
Hay guise, I don’t usually pimp deals like this, but today you can get Beat Hazard — the amazing music-based shoot ‘em up that I’ve talked about before — for 75% off today on Steam, making it a mere $2.50. If you want all the DLC, including the amazing Ultra add-on, you can get it [...]
The awesome folks at Good Old Games are having what might be their best promo in a long time, maybe ever. The ENTIRE Might and Magic series is on sale, which includes: RPGs Might and Magic 1-8 Turn-based strategy games Heroes of Might and Magic 1-4, along with Heroes Chronicles These are some of the [...]
When I was a professional gaming journalist many moons ago, I realized I had two things given to me by others that I don’t have now…structure and order. Structure because I had someone else doling out writing assignments (at least until I became Editor-in-Chief a few times) and order because others also set deadlines. I [...]
I’ve always been of the opinion that PC gaming’s golden age began around 1992/93 and ended around 2000, and that since then PC gaming hasn’t been as…innovative and unique as it once had been thanks to the rise of consoles and the changing nature of video games into a more mainstream audience. Well, for the [...]
Over on my favorite forum, Quarter to Three, someone asked what the best video gaming commercial was? I submitted the excellent Chu-Chu Rocket commercial, because as you can see below, it’s truly amazing. What do you guys think? What is the best or your favorite video game commercial?
According to a story entitled “Couple Sells Kids To Fund Gaming Obsession” on ktla.com, a Chinese couple sold their three children for money to use for gaming in Internet cafes. Their second born girl was sold for freaking $500, while their first born boy was sold for around $4,600. Apparently, they “didn’t know they were [...]
So a little while back I got this game called Frozen Synapse, which the creators term “A Simultaneous Turn-Based Strategy Game / Turn-Based Tactical Game”. It kinda looks like this: I’ve played about thirty games so far in the twenty plus hours I’ve played it and have managed to win maybe two or three, with [...]
The folks at Kotaku — who I honestly take with a big grain of salt, usually — touched upon my favorite genre in gaming with an article entitled “They Want to Make Space Combat Games Fun Again”. Who are these “they” folks, you ask? Why the folks behind Novalogic’s own space sim, Tachyon: The Fringe, [...]
