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Steam offering in-game Prima guides
Posted on May 24, 2010 | No CommentsIn its latest bid to take over the world, Valve recently announced that Prima strategy guides are now available to purchase in the Steam store. Before you start screaming “gimmick!” consider that the guides are available in-game via the omnipresent shift-tab Steam interface. It’s a... -
iPhone game review – Plants vs. Zombies
Posted on May 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsI’ll be honest: I didn’t buy into the “Plants vs. Zombies” craze at first. I’m a fan of Popcap — God alone knows how many hours I’ve lost to “Peggle” — but as clever as their peashooting strategy game sounded, I wasn’t all that impressed.... -
Shocking Persuasion: Bioshock as a rhetorical artifact
Posted on May 16, 2010 | No CommentsI took a class on the history and theory of rhetoric at Whitworth University during the Spring 2010 term. The major project for the class was a paper examining a ‘rhetorical artifact’ – which is basically anything that is an attempt to persuade, whether it... -
Five reasons Steam on the Mac will change the world
Posted on May 1, 2010 | No CommentsBy now most of you are aware that Steam will soon be getting a bite out of Apple. (Ok so that clever play on words isn’t as brilliant as I was hoping it would be, but let’s just move on.) A few weeks ago, Valve... -
Review – Digital: A Love Story
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsAnd you thought you’d seen everything on the internet… Or maybe you didn’t think that…actually, just thinking about thinking that gives me the shivers. Seeing everything on the internet would imply I would have to browse 4chan, and I place a higher value on my... -
Gamers’ top questions answered
Posted on April 7, 2010 | No CommentsHere’s an interesting piece submitted to me by a rep from Ask.com. There are quite clearly an inordinate number of noobs out there asking questions, so I’ve decided to run this as my small way of battling ignorance on the interwebz. Any questions missed? Leave... -
Review – Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No CommentsBurn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean. With these words on their lips, the Blood Ravens chapter of the Immortal Emperor’s Space Marines crash once again into battle against the enemies of man. And what bloody good fun it is. Dawn of War... -
April’s Foolishness
Posted on April 1, 2010 | 2 CommentsApril Fool’s is a time-honored tradition in the gaming world. Huge corporations drop their professional veneers for a day and let out all that pent up creativity by unleashing devilishly clever pranks on an unsuspecting world. It’s good times, for sure. Here’s some links to... -
Review – Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Posted on March 24, 2010 | No CommentsTake a deep breath, and let it out. It’s a beautiful day. Birds are singing. The jungle is lush. The water is warm. Not a gator for miles. Why did you even bring that USAS-12 fully automatic shotgun, anyway? The answer comes suddenly as the... -
Zombies invade Australia, seek political reform
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No CommentsAs if sensing that the world needed another reason to see gamers as social misfits, a band of Australians with an apparently staggering amount of free time are dressing up (down?) as zombies in an effort to convince their government to create an R18+ rating... -
Review – Star Wolves 3: Civil War
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 2 CommentsI went into Star Wolves 3: Civil War about as blind as I could be. I’d never heard of the series nor had I any real idea as to what type of game it was. Turns out, I’m still not sure. It’s a tough game... -
New NVIDIA drivers might murderfy your PC
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsApparently, nobody at NVIDIA is playing the Starcraft II beta. NVIDIA’s newest batch of certified drivers (196.75) are wreaking havoc the PCs of those testing Blizzard’s upcoming game. Fans stop working (or at least stop working the way they’re supposed to) which results in heat... -
Review – S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsThe S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games have always held a particularly special place in my heart. I discovered the original some time after it was released and was instantly swept up in its apocalyptic world. The atmosphere was complete: after a few minutes trekking around the ruined Chernobyl... -
Civilization V announced, explored
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsExplicit Gamer has an article taking a look at the newly announced Civilization V. Sid Meier’s long-running turn-based strategy series will undergo a number of upgrades, all of which look promising at this stage. The maps will now be tiled with hexagons instead of squares.... -
Dirty Rotten Monsters: The Ubisoft DRM tragedy
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsRock Paper Shotgun has a couple of posts describing a new DRM scheme being put in place by Ubisoft. Apparently, new Ubisoft games (such as the upcoming PC version of Assassin’s Creed II) will require PC gamers to be connected to the internet at all...