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.
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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.
By jove, they’ve got it! Last year saw LucasArts remake the original Secret of Monkey Island with gorgeous new graphics and fantastic voice acting. And then, through some arcane form of voodoo, they managed to make it maddeningly irritating to play. A crazed muddle of menus, inputs and berserk design decisions spoiled a game that was never as good as people remembered it being. Forget all of that – Monkey Island 2: Special Edition has fixed absolutely everything, and was a far better game to begin with.
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?
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?
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.
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.
