Because we’re having a slow news time, what with there being a typical post-christmas lull, a global recession and nothing but a load of announcements & promises in the form of press releases (coupled with the fact we forgot to do it in 2008), here’s the CNS Best of 2008
Category: PC
Shacknews comes bearing news that Blizzard have unvealed two new screenshots, tentatively titled ‘Fire‘ and ‘Rain‘, which show off the new environmental & weather effects that feature in the RTS sequel. No word on whether such environmental effects will play into the gameplay, nor when the first episode (yes, it’s episodic, get over it!) will […]
Gameplayer.com.au has an interview with Rick White of Volition, producer on their third-person (nee first-person) shooter set on the dust red and geo-moddable landscapes of Mars. An interesting point of note is Volition’s claim to be ramping the Xbox 360 hardware (which is clearly the lead platform, as usual these days) to its very limits […]
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The Sims 3 System Requirements
EA have released the official minimum requirements for running The Sims 3. As per usual, they dredge the lowest of low, but it’s good too see some attempt has been made to require a computer manufactured this side of the great computing big-bang of the year of our lord (Horace the Endless Bear) 1876. Skip […]
Minutes after accidentally stumbling into a garish landscape, Andrew Bryant is insulted by a gnomish mexican wrestler… It’s just like visiting the in-laws!
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Steam Holiday Sale
Valve have just started their not-quite-January-but-close-enough Sale on Steam, located here for browser-philes or on the Store homepage for people who would rather use the app.
Telltale have released the first proper batch of ingame screenshots from the next entry into their episodic digitally-distributed menagerie of video game entertainment. Accompanying these screenshots is a wad of concept art which shows all the hallmarks of Aardman. Telltale also link to an interview with Eurogamer, which can be found here. Grand Adventures is […]
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GOG Christmas Bonanza Pt. 2
These guys just keep on giving… In the run up too Christmas (and for a short period after, up until the 31st December) Good Old Games are offering double-game bundles for $9.99. The bundles include: Stonekeep & Lionheart MDK & MDK 2 Descent 1 + 2 + 3 (plus the expansion pack for D3) Fallout […]
Vin Diesel is the celebrity video gamer! Not content to speak about them all the time and name drop ‘playing on PlayStation’ in every film he’s in, but he even owns his own damn games studio that has managed to stay afloat for 6 years whilst only being actively involved in ONE GAME! Take that […]
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GOG Christmas Bonanza
Haven’t mentioned these guys for nearly 2 weeks now… Good Old Games have started getting really generous in the run up to christmas. Hit the jump for the skinny…