New World of Warcraft community site has launched
The revamped World of Warcraft Community site has launched, offering players a place to manage their auctions, get the latest Guild news and browse the armoury without having to log in to the game itself. There’s a shiny new beginners section for new players and plans to add a 3D model viewer in the future. You’ll find a a list of the site’s features below.
The Minecraft Experiment, day 9: Making Waterfalls
When I first started playing Minecraft a few months ago, I played with a rule: if I die, I have to delete the entire world. This is the ninth entry in the diary I kept of that experiment – the first is here.
Crap Shoot: The You Testament
Richard Cobbett has a deeply bizarre religious experience with one man’s attempt to bring The Greatest Story Ever Told to life via the medium of… a hacked up wrestling game engine. Yes. Really.
Everything went wrong when I accidentally kicked Jesus in the balls.
“Hey, what’s your problem?” demanded the Lamb of God. “Touch me again and I’ll kill you!”
The You Testament is the best worst game ever.
PC Gamer US Podcast 250 — LaserDeathCatFantastic
Lock your doors, hide your laser mice. The Laser Death Cat invades PC Gamer’s 250th podcast, just in time for another episode of the only gaming quiz show where arbitrary decisions and constant cruelty are the only rule: Catfantastic. Logan adjudicates our two teams of expert question-answerers–including two former PC Gamer editors-in-chief–on this Very Special episode. What year did Battlefield 1942 win PC Gamer’s game of the year award? What engine were the first screenshots for Duke Nukem Forever rendered on? These lively questions–and other, audio-driven inquiries–are answered.
Fight fires and save lives in the Emergency 2012 demo
Emergency 2012 puts you in charge of the emergency services in a series of international disaster scenarios. It’s up to you to equip and upgrade your emergency response force, commanding the police, fire fighters and rescue workers in the face of a number of different disasters. A demo has just been released for the game offering a tutorial and two missions: Cologne Cathedral as it’s hit by a hurricane, and a devastating landslide on Mount Matterhorn. You’ll find more details and a trailer below.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East out soon, manual excerpts released
The Gary Grigsby series of turn based strategy games has always provided intense and detailed simulations of major conflicts in modern history, and the latest entry in the series will be no different. This time Grigsby has relocated the action to the hexy tundra of the Eastern Front, focusing on the German-Soviet War of 1941-1945. An entire chapter of the manual has been released for the game, giving us an advanced look at how troop management will work. Read on for details.
Call of Duty: Black Ops patch plans revealed
Treyarch have posted a huge list of all the issues they’re working on fixing in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Games for Windows Marketplace selling a game a day for 99 cents
From now until Wednesday next week, the relaunched Games for Windows Marketplace will sell a different game every day for just 99 cents/75p. Today’s deal is on Deus Ex, but you’ll have to catch it quick before it’s replaced by another game in about an hour. There’s also a great weekly deal on the site selling the the brilliant puzzler, World of Goo for $5 / £3.75. A great price for a great game.
“We didn’t start the fire”: Stormwind Edition
A guild has put together an amazing music video for Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Light the Fire in World of Warcraft. The video races through the streets as passers by say each line from the song. It took a week of practice to choreograph, but the resulting video made the effort worthwhile. You’ll find it embedded below.
The Minecraft Experiment, day 8: Alive
When I first started playing Minecraft a few months ago, I played with a rule: if I die, I have to delete the entire world. This is the eighth entry in the diary I kept of that experiment – the first is here.
PC Gamer Game Club Week 12: Torchlight
Every week the PC Gamer Game Club picks a new game to play and discuss. All sorts of games have featured so far, from classic real time strategy games like Age of Empires 2 to the grim survival horror shooter STALKER. This week the brilliant action RPG, Torchlight is under the microscope. All you need to get involved is a copy of the game in question. Read on for details.
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime announced
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! But not the Ghostbusters you remember from the movies and the 2009, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, from Terminal Reality. Atari has announced via USA Today that the sequel Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, will not be featuring any voice work from the original cast and will be developed by Wanako.
Now featuring a four-player co-op mode, friends can cross their proton pack streams as they battle new gigantic bosses. Expect it Spring 2011 as a digital release.
First Back to the Future trailer has arrived, Doc is in trouble
The first trailer for the upcoming Back to the Future adventure games has arrived. Marty McFly is alone in the present, and money men are looking to sell off Doc’s lab. The time travelling DeLorean reappears in the nick of time and McFly sets off to find the Doc. As well as giving us a look at the game’s clean faced graphical style, the trailer also reveals the titles of each of the five episodes. You’ll find the video embedded below
Team Fortress 2 launches public beta
Valve’s department of mad scientists have decided that they need more guinea pigs on which to test their insane schemes, and have decided to launch a Team Fortress 2 public beta. The beta will play host to massive game changing experiments and will let Valve test out new tech without breaking Team Fortress 2 proper. Read on for details on the first round of changes in the beta, and details on how to sign up.
Darkspore co-op trailer features team tactics and magma monsters
The latest Darkspore trailer gives us an advanced look at the four player co-op mode. In Darkspore each player can control a different class of creature, and can mutate and evolve their monster to make them more devastating in combat. In co-op, these abilities can be combined to lay waste to hordes of mutant Darkspore creatures. The video features plenty of mutant xenos getting space-blasted and a giant angry magma boss creature tearing up the landscape, you’ll find it embedded below.
