Computers N StuffDestination Games Tabula Rasa, brainchild of Richard ‘Lord/General/Insert-Title-Here British’ Garriott, is to shut down after just over a year of fairly poor performance in MMO circles. The servers are due to get a tabula rasa of their own at the end of February next year, but from the 10th January, the entire game will be […]
Following the fairly lukewarm reception of Brothers in Arms : Hell’s Highway (a game that was much delayed, pretty seriously bugged for more than one platform and set in a period which we’ve all shot our way through at least 4-5 times), Shacknews reports that Gearbox have laid off between 15 and 26 employees. Originally […]
The GOG team have sent an email around to their users pointing out they have now signed a deal with Epic Games to distribute DRM-free copies of the older and frankly, the better (Unreal 2 not withstanding) entries in the Unreal Series. Starting with Unreal Gold & Unreal Tournament (see: UT ’99) GOTY Edition (available […]
Telltale Games have announced that Episode 4 of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, titled Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, has shipped for PC & WiiWare. People who have purchased the season pass can download the game now via their account on Telltales website. “Move over, James Bond! Strong Bad’s here to show you […]
Valve have announced that Left 4 Dead, their co-op zombie-themed multiplayer shooter, has gone gold and will hit Steam clients on the 18th November and retail on [insert country here]’s general game release date (Tuesday in the US – so same day as Steam, Friday in the UK) The Infection Begins Next Week November 13, […]
As the Xbox 360 NXE release approaches and following the stark back-pedal on the GfW : Live Gold Subscription fee back in July, Microsoft has entered phase 2 in it’s revision of Games for Windows : Live by rejigging the interface, which should be available now for LIVE-enabled games.
RockPaperShotgun have nicely pointed out that 2D Boy‘s magnum opus, World of Goo, is heading for final approach on european shores, with both Retail and Steam releases imminent for PC & Wii/WiiWare. If you haven’t already bought it direct from their online store (you know who you are, heathens), then expect to find it boxed […]
BradyGames announces the official guide for World of Warcraft : Wrath of the Lich King. As the official guide to Northrend, lets hope it would help you avoid his wrath…!
PCGH has conducted a short performance benchmark of the Left 4 Dead demo. Their ‘average’ system (Core 2 Duo, 9800GTX, 2GB RAM, Vista SP1 X64) gives an average of 45-50 FPS on absolute maximum detail, which bodes well for those systems which were happier with Far Cry 2 than Crysis. They also offer up several […]
Andrew Bryant finds some loose change down the back of the settee and spends it in the only way he knows how… On Steam!