Mafia 2′s system requirements aren’t that fearsome
Want to play Mafia 2? According to the official site, you’ll need a… not that powerful PC to run it. They are nowhere near as high-spec as you might expect.
Why Team Fortress 2 needs a /dance command
Professional game animator James Benson has been experimenting with brand new animations for the Team Fortress 2 characters. And they’re amazing. If you’re not giggling by the time you get to the Spy, you’re not quite human.
Dragon Age 2 is PC Gamer UK’s next cover
EA have announced Dragon Age 2, and now, we’re proud to reveal that Dragon Age 2 is PC Gamer UK’s next cover-game.
PC Gamer wants you to show us your desk
I’ve got a fairly odd obsession with seeing where you play games. In the UK magazine, we used to run a regular feature where we’d annotate and, well, critique your desk. I want to revive that for the site. So, please take a picture of your desk either showing a copy of the magazine, or with our new website on screen, and upload it to the PC Gamer Facebook group and we’ll start taking the pi… celebrating your play-space. We’d also like to run some of the images in the magazine again. This is for all countries, all continents.
FIFA 11 on PC to get next-gen console engine. Finally.
For the last four years EA’s FIFA games on PC have been hamstrung by technology. We’ve received ports of the Playstation 2 versions, which have been riddled with low resolution textures, poor mechanics, and abysmal physics. That’s about to change.
New findings reveal that gamers trust reviews
A recent study has underline the impact of reviews on sales. After reading positive reviews and playing Plants versus Zombies for the first time, most participants gleefully accepted a copy of the game instead of their promised cash fee. Those who were shown poor reviews just took the money.
Is Dragon Age 2 about to be announced?
Kotaku have just reported that EA have “pretty much confirmed” Dragon Age 2, although nothing on whether it’s coming to PC. As we’ve mentioned before, though, Bioware love the PC and should marry it.
[via Kotaku]
You’re nicked: Metropolitan Police APB clan
In APB, Realtime Worlds’ online cops vs robbers shooter, a creative clan of enforcers has recreated the look of the London Metropolitan Police Force with the game’s advanced character creator.
Light from the Darkness: The Making of Torchlight
Diablo casts a long shadow over the action-RPG. Few games have been able to dispel Blizzard’s gloomy dominance of the genre, though many have tried. Only Torchlight shines in the dark. A modest game in scale and price, made in a year by a small team, it is as accomplished a resurrection of the genre as anyone could want.
Garden to galactic dominion in Eufloria
Whether it’s Sins of a Solar Empire, Rise of Nations, or Grand Theft Auto, my very nature compels me to virulent conquest throughout any potential dominion like a tyranid swarm. Nothing is more satisfying than the sight of my player-color ominously enveloping a map. Unfortunately, many of the games that allot such maniacal pleasures are quite the time-sink, which is why I was so thrilled when I discovered Eufloria a few months back. It’s all the blind land consumption I want, without the advanced features that require a greater time investment.
Did you just get two free weeks of WAR?
Warhammer Online, the Warhammer fantasy MMO is transitioning to a new server host in Europe. GOA, who currently run the game servers, are handing over the reins to Bioware Mythic’s owners EA. The game will be taken offline as the servers are moved across to the new host. But there’s an upside. Anyone who currently, or who used to subscribe to the game in Europe will be getting a free two weeks play-time.
Win PC Gamer US’s Flip Mino HD
Hey US readers, we’re giving away a practically new Flip Mino HD camcorder, generously provided to us by the good folks at Flip to document our E3 adventures. Click Read More to find out how to win it.
Blizzard: Cataclysm delivers “bold” talent changes
Blizzard have just posted a lengthy update to their forums in which they discuss removing multiple talents from all of World of Warcraft’s current talent trees.
Blizzard poster Zarhym explains that “When we first announced our design goals for class talent trees back at BlizzCon 2009, one of our major stated focuses was to remove some of the boring and “mandatory” passive talents. In an upcoming beta build, we will unveil bold overhauls of all 30 talent trees.” One of Blizzard’s stated goals of Cataclysm, as revealed in our Tom Chilton interview, is to deliver meaningful choice without overburdening the game systems. This effort to prune the talent trees is a significant step in that direction, and will be live in the Cataclysm beta very shortly. The full statement is below.
Ask the Expert: Fixing a broken internet
It’s Wednesday here on the PC Gamer blog which means that we’re late in posting our PC Gaming helpdesk. Our resident tech doctor, Adam Oxford, is in and ready to dispense diagnostic advice. He’ll also answer all your hardware related questions. Except, “where do chips come from, Mummy”? You’re far too young to know.
Why Blizzard’s new forum plan is an epic fail
Last night, Blizzard announced that, if you post on the versions of the forum that launch with the new StarCraft, your real name, rather than your username, will be shown. This is going to be baaaaaaad.
