Warframe screenshot
The core gamer free to play field is filling fast. Most of my gaming time on the PC is already spent on Ghost Recon Online, with the occasional night of Hawken, Mechwarrior Online or World Of Tanks. Warframe represents something we haven’t really seen before: it’s a third-person dungeoncrawling brawler, with heavy co-op fo [...]
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Warframe (PC)
Warframe screenshot
The core gamer free to play field is filling fast. Most of my gaming time on the PC is already spent on Ghost Recon Online, with the occasional night of Hawken, Mechwarrior Online or World Of Tanks. Warframe represents something we haven’t really seen before: it’s a third-person dungeoncrawling brawler, with heavy co-op fo [...]
Planetside 2 (PC)
Planetside 2
I was very excited about Planetside 2. The promise of planet-scale warfare with thousands of other players is something no other game has. It’s enough to make a thirty four year old gamer’s mind spin. It’s inspiring.
After only a couple of hours with the game, I uninstalled it. The reason is not its gameplay, which works fine, ev [...]
Hawken (PC)
Hawken. It’s really pretty.
Every artist in the studio knew when that trailer hit. Hawken became a household name overnight. It took a while to register for a larger audience, but if you attended any game tradeshow over the past year or so, you couldn’t miss Hawken. This tiny team out of nowhere was seriously competing with the tr [...]
Mechwarrior Online (PC)
Mechwarrior Online. There is no third person view.
For years I’ve had Saitek Cyborg 3D USB Gold sitting right above me on the shelf, next to the desktop computer. It’s pretty hardcore. It comes with a hex key. It makes me feel somewhat superior to today’s kids. Who has joysticks these days?
Not that I’ve used it in yea [...]
Ghost Recon Online (PC)
Ghost Recon Online – you’ll be crouching behind walls a lot
Me and Rogue Spear (1999) into the legacy, too, even though it’s technically part of the Rainbow Six franchise, but for me an obsession with Tom Clancy themed shooters started with Rogue Spear. I played that so much I can still recall all the levels (the ship was th [...]
New PC playgrounds
Crysis
My four year old graphics card died yesterday. I proceeded to pick up the cheapest “gaming card” I could get off the shelf, which is what I’ve always done. (Tom’s Hardware consulting.) That meant an Nvidia Geforce 250GS at 130€. It’s my first GPU which needs a separate power supply.
Not a PC hardware issu [...]
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberr...
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited
I have built three characters up to level three in Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited (DDO for short). It’s taken me a week and considering how slow levelling is in DDO, I believe I’ve already spent more time with it than with any other MMO.
I first visited the game [...]
Post I.T. Shooter
Kloonigames has a new game up. Falling resolutely on the “art” side of the “games as art” debate, it’s an experience you shouldn’t miss. It’s a scrolling shooter presented as a stop motion animation, composed of Post-It notes.
Coincidentally, I just bought Space Invaders Extreme for the DS and have b [...]
Neotokyo
I’ve been playing Neotokyo. It is basically Counter-Strike with a Ghost In The Shell skin, and in my books that’s a good thing.
There is just one game mode, Capture The Ghost, and it works very well. It’s capture the flag with a s [...]
Neotokyo: Source
Neotokyo: Source is the FPS I would’ve made. It helps that it looks and sounds gorgeous (professional) and is largely based on the work of Masamune Shirow (Ghost In The Shell, Appleseed). It is free to download, requires the Half-Life 2 Source engine to run and is available now.
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