My mad quest for SC2 achievements
I’m not an achievement whore by nature. In fact, generally I find the very existence of achievements abhorrent. Most of them, in my experience, are just there to reward repetition of mindless tasks or to give me a meaningless pat on the head for doing things I was going to do anyway, like complete a level or build a unit. And I have no patience for most games that force me to do some task X number of times to unlock new content – and yes, that includes Team Fortress 2.
But with StarCraft II, I’m out to get them, but not just to have them. I’m using them for a different purpose: to make the game harder.
Portal in Minecraft
It’s Portal, but in Minecraft! Are you getting this? Portal, the game that made the entire internet sing the same song for a whole year. Minecraft, the one-man project that’s still selling a thousand copies a day without so much as a single advertisement. They got drunk, fumbled around, and this video is the result.
Activision clamping down on second hand games
Activision-Blizzard have declared that they want to ‘limit the supply’ of pre-owned titles by increasing the importance of DLC in games. Basically, they want the disc you pass on to your friends to be worth a lot less than the full experience you get when you buy the game new.
Quake Live gets subscription service
Quake Live as you know it – the free, browser-based version of Quake – isn’t going anywhere. But it is getting two layers of premium features, for anyone willing to pay an annual fee.
Ask the expert: How to revive an old PC
Sunday is a day for tackling those odd jobs you just haven’t had time to do over the last week. Like fixing annoying PC problems or figuring out what the internet is made of. Fortunately, our resident technical expert Adam Oxford doesn’t believe in weekends, so he’s on hand to help out whatever day of the week it is.
Why Dungeon Keeper has never been beaten
PC Gamer is blessed with a seasoned 17 year history, and occasionally we reach into our deep archives to retrieve something wonderful about a game we love. Today, a slightly revised look at Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog’s best, vilest management game.
Something went horribly wrong between Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2. The sequel to what’s ostensibly Theme Dungeon (with violence) wasn’t inferior because of level design, or graphics, or even budget. It was the screams.
Get Lamp: text adventure documentary
“They were called ‘computer adventure games’, and they used the most powerful graphics processor in the world: the human mind.” Get Lamp oozes love. A documentary that tells the story of text adventures through the words of the people who made them, it’s taken digital historian Jason Scott five years of researching, interviewing, filming, editing and polishing. Finally, the results of his work are available to buy. Check the trailer below.
Rumoured fourth Borderlands DLC info
Gearbox official forum user “Legendrew” has stumbled across what could be the next DLC for Borderlands. Rummaging around in game data files, he’s found what appears to be big lists of enemies. He’s also dug out a script for an intro cinematic introducing a Ninja Claptrap, who has liberated an army of claptraps from the shackles of human oppression. You’ve got to kill them.
Galio, League of Legends’ newest champion.
Riot Games has just announced the newest member of their ever expanding lineup of champions. Galio, the Sentinel’s Sorrow, is a construct forged to look like a gargoyle. Being made of stone and metal, it’s looking like Gallio’s shaping up to be LoL’s newest tank. Check out his powers after the jump.
Community heroes: Ross Scott for Freeman’s Mind
Community heroes is our ongoing series of interviews with some of PC gaming’s greatest heroes – the pillars of the community who have devoted huge chunks of time and love to make the PC a better place to game. Today, we’ve asked Ross Scott a load of questions about his Freeman’s Mind videos, Civil Protection, and his PC gaming habits in general.
PC Gamer US podcast 234 – Automata
Fresh off his guest-writing stint at Penny Arcade, Hollywood scribe Gary Whitta joins Dan, Josh, Erik and Andy to talk about what brought him back to PC gaming after a real-life rage quit and his plans for building a new PC. Then we cover announcements ranging from Battlefield to Batman to Worms, speculate on what Irrational is up to, and discuss the best way to entice gamers back to an older game – and that’s before we even get to answering listener questions and what we’re playing.
Download the MP3, here, or enter this URL into your RSS reader to subscribe.
Batman: Arkham City announced
This is the “Arkham Asylum 2″ everyone was talking about. It’s been named, and it’s set in Arkham City. Hey, wait a second – that isn’t where Batman lives. What gives?
Community heroes: Yahtzee, for Zero Punctuation
Community heroes is our ongoing series of interviews with some of PC gaming’s greatest heroes – the pillars of the community who have devoted huge chunks of time and love to make the PC a better place to game. Today, we’re letting you rub your eyeballs all over this interview with Yahtzee, the guy behind Zero Punctuation, the Trilby adventure games.
Win every past and future Valve game
Imagine never paying for a Valve game ever again. That’s exactly what you could win if you enter the competition featured in this month’s UK edition of PC Gamer. We’re giving away ten exclusive Steam accounts that could make such fevered madness a reality by not only gifting you every Valve game made so far, but eventually Half-Life 3, Team Fortress 5 and Portal 7.
Valve endorse wrench-melting charity drive
Valve have thrown their mighty girth behind the charity melt-your-wrench event we posted about last week, writing about it on their official blog and announcing the total raised so far.
