The Monkey Island 2: Special Edition is out. We returned to Scabb island to deliver our verdict.
New aliens, new tools, and hideous new reasons to keep a sick bucket under your desk.
EA's next king of football games is tailor made for the PC, but does it match its console counterpart?
Dear sir/madam. I am writing to return the enclosed ‘Time Manipulation Device’ I purchased as part of your first-person shoot-them-up ‘Singularity’. I had looked forward to using the tool to rend the fabric of spacetime like a cheap hooker’s tights, but was confused by the results. When assailed by a spindly mutant, for example, I found my TMD simply caused him to turn red, inflate, run towards me and explode – at some cost to my constitution. How is this related to time manipulation? I fail to see how the mutated gentleman could have been an about-to-explode gentleman at any point preceding our encounter – nor destined to become one after it.
When it comes to side-on, turn based team shooters with destructible terrain, there has never been a finer example than the Worms franchise. Except, in the beginning, there was Scorched Earth. Worms is back from stumbling blindly around the consoles and trying to go 3D. Here’s a trailer for their soon-to-hit-Steam title Worms Reloaded to prove it:
Myth: StarCraft 2 isn’t a merely a pile of entertainment, but the world’s most reliable system through which alien bullies steal your lunch money. Truth: StarCraft 2 is one of the most nuanced games on the PC today, and enjoying multiplayer can rely on knowledge that doesn’t come intuitively.
At the completion of StarCraft Week here at PC Gamer, we want to leave you with some practical pro tips to improve your game. For that purpose, we summoned Taylor “Painuser” Parsons, one of the top Terran players in North America. Above that, he’s only been playing StarCraft since 2006–and he was a first-person shooter player before he took up the RTS. My favorite insight from our chat: “Learn to revel in losing.”
StarCraft has become synonymous with the hardcore, competitive gamers that populate a majority of the game’s coverage. And while this aspect of the game steals the limelight, what people often neglect are the droves of fun, free custom maps available.
Thanks to the extremely flexible Galaxy Map Editor, map modders have already put together not only some impressive custom maps, but also some mods that completely change the way that StarCraft II plays. Terran Tetris, anyone?
This is it, folks: your last chance to win! As our StarCraft week draws to a close, so does our SteelSeries Action Pack giveaway. The action pack includes the StarCraft II-themed Zboard and the looks-tough-feels-soft Terran Marine mousepad.
Congratulations to Thursday’s winner, Igor Pavlenko of Connecticut!
We’ve got one more Action Pack to give away, so read on to enter in today’s giveaway.
This week on the site, we want to celebrate some of the heroes of the PC gaming community. People who’ve devoted huge amounts of their free time to making something awesome for the rest of us to enjoy. Today we’re talking to Chris Livingston, creator of the very funny Half-Life 2 webcomic Concerned, the extremely funny Oblivion diary Living in Oblivion, and the hilarious mock gaming news site The First-Person Observer. Whatever he does next, it had better cause diagnosable hysteria.
They say you don’t get something for nothing. They’re demonstrably wrong. For example, in July, you’ve been able to get at least six somethings for nothing. They’re all PC games as well, as it happens. Here’s the best in freebie entertainment from the last month, ready to play on your personal home computer video game entertainment systems.
At San Diego Comic-Con, I had a frantic hallway chat with Guild Wars 2 lore man Jeff Grubb and lead designer James Phinney. I learned a good bit about how making Tyria persistent will yield significant changes for many GW2 systems, but no change sounds quite as exciting as the ability to hurl a jar of bees at your opponent.
By Monday, you’ll no longer be able to subscribe to PC Gamer UK at a 50% discount. This is because sales are actually carefully matured under an ultraviolet lamp, and quickly wilt in the harsh light of the internet. Click here to buy a subscription. At the minute, you can get a year’s worth of issues for £38.94, which is roughly £3 per issue (thirteen a year, remember). How many times will you be tramping out to the shops to get one for £5.99 in the next year? Come oooon. Note – you’ll have to subscribe for a period of at least 6 months to qualify for the discount.
On today’s podcast, Evan, Josh, Dan, and Erik recap the results of yesterday’s office StarCraft 2 tournament and offer their first thoughts on the launch of the game, the campaign (spoiler-free, of course), and Blizzard’s mostly issue-less worldwide launch of one of the biggest multiplayer games of all time. Yesterday’s SC2 tourney champ, Tyler Nagata, senior editor at GamesRadar, also joins us.
At the end of today’s episode we interview “HDStarcraft,” one of the prominent StarCraft 2 professional match broadcasters in the SC2 community. If we can encourage you to subscribe to one YouTube channel (after ours), let it be HD’s elegant, entertaining StarCraft commentary.
