Category: PC (Page 16 of 18)

Monkey Island Chapter Three Arrives September 29th

September 17, 2009 / Jeff Morgan

If you haven’t yet finished Chapter 2 of The Tales of Monkey Island you should probably get going on that. The third installment arrives September 29th and will be called The Lair of the Leviathan. Lots of piratey goodness in that title.

The release date is only for the PC version of the game. As with The Siege of Spinner Cay, you’ll be waiting on the 360/Wii releases just a little longer.

Along with the expansion of the new game, you can find Guybrush Threepwood’s original adventure, The Secret of Monkey Island on sale from Steam and Direct2Drive this weekend for $5. The sale coincide with Talk Like A Pirate Day, September 19th. The sale will run until the 21st, so you’ve got a few days to decide whether you can part with honest Abe.

Nintendo Wii, PC, Previews, Xbox 360

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Champions Online First Patch Announced

September 2, 2009 / Jeff Morgan

Cryptic has announced the first addition of new content to their brand new Champions Online. The game, which launched yesterday in the US and will head to Europe on Friday, features Cryptic’s all new superhero world. The new content, called Blood Moon, adds a spooky spin to the world with zombie uprising, roaming werewolves, and the Undying Lord Takafones coming to town.

I’m glad to see Cryptic adding in-game events so early. Holidays and other festivals were some of my favorite world events in WoW, aside from the really events surrounding expansions. The announcement page for Blood Moon has some interesting warnings – don’t get bit by werewolves or die to zombies or you become part of the horde. I wonder if that’s only temporary or if it’s a permanent change to your hero.

The new content also adds the celestial powerset, which can be used to damage enemies or heal and buff allies depending which way you go.

All in all, I’d say it sounds cool, but I haven’t played the game. Have any of you? Is it worth buying?

MMO, PC

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Earn A Halo If You Don’t Cheat At TF2

September 2, 2009 / Jeff Morgan

Since removing the achievement-based item system, Valve has had about all the grief they can handle from unruly players. Where the old system led to players creating achievement servers just to unlock the goodies, the new system made prevalent the use of idling programs to attain the items.

Well Valve’s not happy with that second situation. They don’t want you idling your way to glory any more than they want you hacking, so they’re removing the items attained by idlers, and giving non-cheating types a little reward. If you didn’t idle your way to items, check for a level 1 Halo in your inventory. The headpiece gives you a level 1 “Aura of Incorruptibility”

As for future cheating, Valve’s Erik Johnson says they will “adopt a zero tolerance policy for external applications used to manipulate the persistent item system.” In other words, don’t do it.

PC, Xbox 360

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Diablo III Will Be Edited In Certain Regions

August 25, 2009 / Jeff Morgan

It’s hard to avoid Blizzard news during pretty much the entire month in which Blizzcon takes place. It’s a huge event, and Blizzard has one of the most rabid fanbases around. That’s a recipe for crazy rumors, crazy news leaks, and even crazier rumors.

Now we’re past Blizzcon, though, so most of what we’re hearing has come straight from the horse’s mouth, and this is no different (though it actually comes from GamesCom). Diablo III developer Jay Wilson spoke with Wired regarding the level of gore in the upcoming dungeon masher. Apparently some regions tend to frown on exploding body parts, to say nothing of most of the parents in the rest of the world. As such, certain regions will be getting an edited version of the new game – one that’s been cleaned up for the prudes of the world.

The game will also be shipping with parental controls for those nitpicky parents who think it’s okay for their son/daughter to be cleaving through the minions of hell, so long as they don’t bleed.

Activision, News, PC

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Mass Effect 2 Coming To PC On Time

August 24, 2009 / Jeff Morgan

For a while there, I was a PC gamer only. I had purchased a 360 during my senior year of college and sold it a couple years later because I just wasn’t using it. Between then and about the time I started writing for this blog I had to do something I’m not great at doing when it came to console exclusive games: wait. Games like Mass Effect didn’t release for PC and 360 simultaneously, which was really painful for the major releases.

BioWare has said no more. According to VG247, BioWare’s Jesse Houston let them know that Mass Effect 2 would be shipping for both console and PC at the same time.

This time round, doing it at the same time for a sim-ship, we can control the differences much more smoothly because it’s the same team building it now. Because of this, differences between the two versions of the game should also be minimised, as it’s now the same game appearing on two systems, not a port.

As you all know, games can be delayed, for either one of those systems, for really any reason, and without a whole lot of warning. It’s nice that Houston claims they’ll be launched at the same time, but really, I’m not expecting it.

EA, PC, Previews, Xbox 360

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