StarCraft II overheating fix
While you’re sitting frowning at the StarCraft II menu after getting trounced by some mouthy fifteen year old who used time travel to swarm your base with carriers in the first twenty seconds, have you noticed any slowdown on the menu? Some users are reporting exactly that, and Blizzard have kindly posted some advice on how to fix it. Here’s what they said:
World of Tanks: Medium Tanks trailer
There’s a new World of Tanks trailer out, showcasing the medium tanks. That’s an odd thing to be called, though, isn’t it? “I’m a big metal truck with a gun for a face, but I’m just a medium one.” Tanks are weird, people.
PC has Worms again: Worms Reloaded trailer
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:
Tips from a StarCraft II pro – Taylor “Painuser” Parsons
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.”
Game-bending StarCraft II mods and custom maps
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?
Last chance to win a SteelSeries StarCraft II Action Pack!
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.
Community heroes: Chris Livingston, Concerned
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.
July’s best free PC games
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.
Personalizing your experience in Guild Wars 2
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.
PC Gamer US podcast 233 – Brotoss
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.
Thursday giveaway: SteelSeries StarCraft II Action Pack!
As part of our Week of Starcraft, we’re giving away awesome StarCraft II Action Packs from SteelSeries all week long! The action pack includes the StarCraft II-themed Zboard and the looks-tough-feels-soft Terran Marine mousepad.
Congratulations to Wednesday’s winner, Mitchell Ryan of Texas!
We’ve got more Action Packs to give away, so read on to enter in today’s giveaway.
Minecraft dev makes £8000 in a day
Minecraft, the block building game that stole our hearts, has just crested one thousand sales in under a day. Almost 5000 people registered for a free account in that time. He sells them for €9.95 (and we can only grunt and screw up our faces when considering the fees that come off before it goes into his pocket). A comment on his blog posits that he’ll soon be working for Valve, and I can’t help but wonder – why would he need to?
I admire your balls: The Pinball Adventure
The Pinball Adventure is a pinball game that I accidentally fell on top of and started playing while doing serious work yesterday. It’s pinball, but it’s also an adventure, see?
Dev Diary: City of Heroes’ Kinetic Melee
PCGamer.com routinely features Developer Diaries: tales of what goes on behind-the-scenes in the development studios making your favorite games. This Dev Diary is titled “Be Water My Friend – How We Made Kinetic Melee” and was written by Nelson Tam, Character Animator; Floyd Grubb, Senior Game Designer; and Keetsie Braz da Cunha, VFX artist.
New Shogun 2: Total War trailer
Sega have unveiled a new Shogun 2 trailer, and this time, it actually has fighting in it! You may click on this motorised video-box to start the image pumps.
