Category: PC Games
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Review: Elemental: War of Magic (PC)
Elemental: War of Magic Publisher: Stardock Developer: Stardock Genre: Turn-based Strategy Release Date: 08/24/2010 Elemental is ambitious. A game that spent years in development with the aim of being the modern day version of Master of Magic with modifying capabilities, multiplayer and a world with a large background story. There was a problem and that…
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Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – The City that Dares Not Sleep (PC)
The fifth and final episode of Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is upon us. Join Mel Ngai as she takes us through another case with The Freelance Police.
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Review: Alter Ego (PC)
Alter Ego Developer: Future Games Publisher: Viva Media Genre: Adventure Release Date: 8/3/2010 Viva Media is set to release its newest title, Alter Ego, at the beginning of August. What awaits us is a mystery so strange and complex, two people of very different backgrounds must work together to form a complete picture. We also…
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Review: Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (PC)
Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Genre: Adventure/Puzzle Release Date: June 30, 2010 Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent is Telltale Games’s pilot project, wherein players guide the title character through a mysterious case in Scoggins, Minnesota. So what’s in store for you should you pick up this game? Let’s find out. Story/Modes…
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Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – They Stole Max’s Brain! (PC)
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse – They Stole Max’s Brain! Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Genre: Point-and-Click Release Date: 6/22/2010 The third episode of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is here, and it gives us a clear premise right in the title. How far will you go to save your best friend’s…
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Review: Hotel: Collector’s Edition (PC)
Hotel: Collector’s Edition (PC) Publisher: Cateia Games Developer: Cateia Games Genre: Adventure Release Date: 06/08/2010 Buy it Here: The Official Website It’s been a rather lackluster year for PC Exclusive adventure games. The best titles have also been available for consoles, such as Sam and Max: Season 3 while Sony’s systems have been hitting it…
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Review: East India Company Collection (PC)
East India Company Collection Genre: Trading Sim Developer: Nitro Games Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release Date: 4/30/2010 After releasing their first game last year, Nitro games continued to provide East India Company with a stream of DLC adding new features and modes to the core game. Now Paradox and Nitro are releasing East India Company Collection…
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Review: Sam & Max in the Devil’s Playhouse: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak (PC)
Sam and Max in the Devil’s Playhouse Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak Genre: Point and Click Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date: 5/18/2010 One month and three days after the release of the first episode of Sam and Max in The Devil’s Playhouse comes Episode 2 “The Tomb of Sammun-Mak” that picks…
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Review: Mount & Blade Warband (PC)
Mount & Blade Warband Developer: TaleWorlds Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: Fantasy War/Strategy RPG Release Date: 3/30/2010 When I reviewed Mount & Blade, I was pretty hard on it. I heavily crtiticized the steep learning curve, ridiculously stacked odds against people starting out, and the bugs that were rampant in the early builds of the game.…
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Review: Plain Sight (PC)
Plain Sight Genre: Action Developer: Beatnik Games Publisher: Beatnik Games Release Date: 04/05/2010 Plain Sight is a game that went a little bit under the radar. I have done my researches, and outside of Steam, there’s not a lot of information to be found about it. Its store page offers a couple of screenshots and…
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Review: Sam and Max: The Penal Zone (PC)
Sam and Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone Genre: Point and Click Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date: 4/15/2010 I love Sam and Max. I played all their games and even read “Surfin’ The Highway” (still haven’t watched the cartoon though). So it may seem strange that the first Sam and Max game…
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Mechwarrior 4 Now Available For Free
After a long legal dispute with Microsoft, Studio Mektek have finally been able to launch the classic PC game Mechwarrior 4 and all its expansions for free over their propriety delivery system MTX. The game was intentionally supposed to release months ago in order to promote the upcoming reboot of the Mechwarrior franchise by Smith…
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First Look: nail’d (Xbox 360, Sony PS3, PC)
A couple of weeks ago, Chris Bowen and I attended a conference with Southpeak, where we got a first look at a new TNA game (which Chris discussed here), as well as a previously unannounced ATV arcade racer called nail’d. All the locales in the game are based on real life locations, though some liberties…
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Review: Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (PC)
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight Genre: RTS (real-time strategy) Developer: EA Los Angeles Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 03/16/10 It’ s is 12:39 AM. I have finally forced my self to go upstairs and remove my contacts, which have adhered to my irises severely! Ugh…part of me blames EA…the reason for this agony is…
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Review: Out of the Park Baseball 11 (PC)
Out of the Park Baseball 11 Developer: Out of the Park Developments Publisher: Out of the Park Developments Genre: Sports Simulator Release Date: 04/14/2010 Where is the best baseball video game located? Well, while MLB 2010 – The Show is an excellent arcade baseball experience (especially the Road to the Show mode), for franchise play…
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Review: The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2 (PC)
The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2 Genre: Puzzle Developer: Legacy Interactive Publisher: Legacy Interactive Release Date: 03/10/10 Minimum System Requirements: OS: Windows Vista/XP/7, Processor: 1GHz Pentium 3 or better, Memory: 512MB or more, Video Card: 128MB or more, DirectX 8.1 compatible or better. Buy it Here: The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2 So,…
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Preview: Mount & Blade: Warband
When Jim Sterling of Destructoid wrote an article about the shit reviewers catch for doing their jobs, I was brought back to a time in 2008, when I wrote a review for Mount & Blade. In my review, I hurt the game because of its bugs, shoddy graphics, hit-or-miss gameplay, and inability to run well…
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Review: Sail Simulator 2010 (PC)
Sail Simulator 2010 Genre: Simulator Developer: Stentec Software Publisher: Iceberg Interactive Release Date: 02/26/2010 Living in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” has ill prepared me for my ventures into the sailing world of Sail Simulator 2010. While still trying to discern the sea farers lingo (aft, stern, ahoy…etc), I jumped into this review with the…
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Review: Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity (PC)
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity Genre: Real Time Strategy Developer: Ironclad Games Publisher: Stardock Entertainment Release Date: 2/9/2010 Back when the hype train for Sins of a Solar Empire was running back in 2007, it seemed the game was too good to be true. Take the best of the 4X turn based strategy genre…