By Craig Lloyd on Jan 31st, 2010 at 7:05PM
This past week was Winter-Een-Mas, the holiday that celebrates gamers and where gamers celebrate the holiday. On top of that, we had month #2 of The Mamba Files and our end-of-the-month Retro Review. Not a bad week we’d have to say. Join us after the break for the full breakdown.
By Tim Hage on Jan 31st, 2010 at 12:33AM
Back in the early days of first-person shooters, it took a lot to peel me away from games like Goldeneye, Perfect Dark 64 and Wolfenstein 3D, but Nerf Arena Blast (NAB) was one of the few games that managed to do it. I decided it was time to install the 328MB, hard drive-eating, Unreal engine-based monstrosity.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 30th, 2010 at 3:10PM
Good news for all the sports fan out there. Hulu just added the NFL Network to their TV catalog. Fox, ABC and NBC have joined together and added eight shows from the NFL Network channel, as well as highlights from past seasons for every NFL team. Check out all the cool new stuff by following the link below.
[Hulu]
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 30th, 2010 at 1:56PM
PC gaming is not even close to being long gone. Valve announced that Steam has over 25 million users now, which is up 25-percent from 2008. Their overall sales were up a whopping 205-percent in 2009, with over 1,000 games to choose from.
“With the introduction of each new platform feature released over the years — such as the Steam Community, Steam Cloud, and Steamworks — we’ve seen corresponding growth in account numbers, concurrent player numbers and developer support for the platform. As such, we plan to continue to expand and grow the platform to better serve the developers supporting the open platform and millions of gamers logging in each day.” — Gabe Newell, Steam CEO
This is quite an accomplishment for Valve and like Newell said, we look forward to Steam’s expansion.
via [VG247]
By Tim Hage on Jan 29th, 2010 at 4:26PM
That’s right, after all the waiting, GTA IV‘s Xbox 360-exclusive DLC (The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony) is coming to PC. It’s safe to assume the DLC will be offered as a pack on DVD or individual downloads via digital purchase, but there’s no official word on how it will be distributed yet. It’ll be releasing March 30th, but we’re still waiting on the price tag. Stay tuned.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 29th, 2010 at 1:34AM
User NatureTM from the Hacked Gadgets forum created an amazingly amazing clock from LEDs and a spinning hard drive. We won’t give you all the useless gibberish of how he did it, unless you’re into that kind of thing, for which you can easily click on the via link (after the break) and read all about it. To see a video of this cool clock in action, join us after the break.
By Tim Hage on Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:57AM
In a move that seems to be a growing trend, 2K Games has announced that there will be no LAN or Dedicated Servers for Bioshock 2. In their defense, it’s all down to development time constraints.
“We chose to spend the time we had creating a solid game foundation and unfortunately that did not include LAN play or dedicated servers.”
Then again, I still feel that Bioshock isn’t the kind of game that needs multiplayer anyway. Let’s hear your thoughts.
via [Big Download]
By Tim Hage on Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:54AM
For those of you that decided to pre-order Bad Company 2, the beta becomes available to you today and will run until February 25th. Unfortunately for the rest of us, pre-ordering is the only way we’ll get to play Bad Company 2 before its release on March 2. No demo is planned for PC.
via [Shack News]
By Tim Hage on Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:51AM
News has been pretty bare for the C&C series lately, but it seems they have a great reason for that. In partnership with Gamespot, the beta is available to all PC gamers. Follow the break for all the details on how you can secure your spot in the beta.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 28th, 2010 at 10:49AM
It’s been only a few months since Windows 7 arrived, but we’re already seeing rumors and leaks of Windows 8. Former Microsoft employee Chris Green drew up a chart that detailed Microsoft’s roadmap for future products. He included these release dates:
One thing to keep in mind is that these are all RTM dates, not the dates when they’ll be available to the public.
via [Fudzilla]
