Classic maps open up the war.
TOR is a "finished" game.
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BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher, Crysis, and The Orange Box. That murderers' row of titles, among others, made 2007 my own personal best year ever in gaming. The writing in BioShock and its setting in the underwater city of Rapture were among the very finest I'd ever seen in a videogame. CoD 4 pushed the shooter genre forward like no FPS before it with the introduction RPG elements and killstreaks. The Witcher proved that hardcore RPGs are alive and well. Crysis became the benchmark for rig building. And The Orange Box delivered a package of games that will likely never be matched. Collectively, they made 2007 my instant response when asked to name gaming's best year. And then 2011 happened. Read More »
It appears Razer has settled on a design for its Switchblade concept computer. The peripheral maker has announced that Project Fiona will be unveiled at CES 2012 next week, a product that will deliver PC gaming in an "all-new form factor." Read More »
Update: BioWare has checked in with Massively to claim that the ban story is a hoax created with a doctored image of a ban email. You may safely resume dancing in combat like a fool.
Update 2: The game has now been patched, and dancing will no longer render you immune to damage.
Yesterday, the Illum loot exploit in Star Wars: The Old Republic was BioWare's Ban Du Jour. Today, making like Young MC and busting a move in the face of enemy attacks is your quick ticket to bandom. Yes, dancing will make you invincible to enemy attacks in SWTOR. And no, you shouldn't try it for yourself because BioWare has labeled it an exploit worthy of a ban. Read More »
![TOR Dancing Exploit [Fixed, Doesn't] Get You Banned](http://web.archive.org/web/20120104231409im_/http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/object/816/816935/jedcons_610.jpg "TOR Dancing Exploit [Fixed, Doesn't] Get You Banned")
We've known for quite awhile that Microsoft has been working on the newest entry in its Flight Simulator franchise -- we just didn't know much about it. That all changed a few weeks ago when we had a chance to see Microsoft Flight in action on a guided tour of its upcoming beta. Read More »
Do you like free stuff? Great! As part of IGN Prime's Indie PC Game of the Month, you can nab a free copy of Hamilton's Great Adventure right now (read our review here). Not a Prime member? Not to worry. You can join for a free IGN Prime trial starting today by signing up for IGN Prime here. Once you become an IGN Prime member you'll be entitled to future game giveaways and more! Read More »
Star Wars: The Old Republic offers many a tip of the cap to the Holy Trilogy, including the Han-like figure frozen in carbonite in the Bounty Hunter's starship. These small flourishes have sent us journeying down nostalgia lane to re-experience all things Star Wars, and that brings us to our file of the day. In 2006 Petroglyph transformed our favorite galaxy far, far away into an RTS with Star Wars: Empire at War. And now you can transform the game with some of our favorite Empire at War Mods. Click on through to give the game an injection of Halo and Starship Troopers. Read More »
If your sword hand has been itching to get your RPG/RTS on in Paradox Interactive's King Arthur II, you can end your wait today. The publisher announced today that anyone who pre-orders the game on Steam will receive the prologue chapter, Dead Legions, and be able to play it immediately. Read More »
A ton of awards have been handed out over the past few weeks, but we're fairly certain Crytek had no interest in winning this one: Crysis 2 has been named the most pirated game of 2011, with nearly 4 million copies of the game illegally downloaded. Read More »
After a three-year squabble, it appears Bethesda and Interplay have put down their Super Sledges and Shishkebabs. According to reports, the lengthy legal battle over Interplay's right to make a Fallout MMO has been settled. Perry Mason the jump for details. Read More »
Remember Voxels? For a while there these chunky 3D pixels were going to be the next big thing in computer graphics, but after a few games (notably Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, C&C2;: Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2, Blade Runner, and Outcast) developers seemed to get sick of them, and pretty much everybody went back to good old-fashioned polygons.
There's some life left in these virtual cubes, though: Reddit spotted this trailer for a game tentatively called Cube World, a Voxel-based RPG that developer Wollay guestimates might be ready for download within a few months. Color me intrigued -- and click to watch the video. Read More »
Here's the crazy thing about Postal III: it knows exactly what it is, and it really, really doesn't care. "GTA's physics are better," its sunglasses-clad main character constantly quips, rotating through an annoyingly short list of one-liners as he scores kills. One frustrating, friendly-fire-packed escort mission outright mocked me. "Good luck not hurting them in this AI clusterf***," said the intro text. "Hahahaha!" it adds, driving home that Running With Scissors is not only aware of how bad its game is, but thinks it's funny that we would pay for it and play it. So then, I'm forced to ask: Can a game be so hair-pullingly, gut-wrenchingly, face-palmingly bad it's good? Read More »
It's that time of year again: the presents are unwrapped, the Steam Holiday Sale is in full swing, and we're giving a tip our sweet green fedoras to the PC games that impressed us the most in 2011. This has been one of the most amazing years on record, and the list of awesome games the GameSpy crew had to whittle down to just a few winners was imposing indeed. Some of these calls were no-brainers, others made us want to bash each other's brains out and eat them. After all, what kind of game is Minecraft, anyway? But call them we did, and here's how it all went down. Read on to see which of the games that came out this year we think you absolutely can't afford to miss. Read More »
Writing all of the stories in Star Wars: The Old Republic was a major project that took years -- and the work is far from over. We sat down with BioWare's lead writer, Daniel Erickson, to chat about the rhyme and reason behind the moral decisions and characters of TOR, and gain some insight into how to get the Star Wars roleplaying experience you're after. If you've ever wondered how much thought goes into writing a major roleplaying game, this interview will give you a glimpse. Read More »
When we saw Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, er, in action earlier this month, one of the questions we wanted answered was would the game would ship with first-party mod tool support. If you recall, the original Jagged Alliance 2 -- which setting and level design works as a foundation for Back in Action -- never had this type of first-party support either. Read More »
The two level 24 Jedi Knights waiting outside the instance portal told me I wasn't ready for this. The class quest, one said, was terribly overpowered and not worth trying for several more levels. One had obviously just taken a beating himself, and for a moment I contemplated jumping back into my starship and contenting myself with making sand castles on Tatooine. Read More »
MW3 is more of the same, and it's showing its age. But is it still fun?
Has one of the best games of the year arrived? Most definitely.
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| 2 | Skyrim | PC |
| 3 | Fallout Online | PC |
| 4 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | PC |
| 5 | Crysis 2 | PC |
| 6 | Battlefield 3 | PC |
| 7 | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | PC |
| 8 | King Arthur II | PC |
| 9 | World of Warcraft | PC |
| 10 | Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand | PC |
| 2 | Skyrim | PC |
| 3 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | PC |
| 4 | Crysis 2 | PC |
| 5 | Battlefield 3 | PC |
| 6 | World of Warcraft | PC |
| 7 | Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand | PC |
| 8 | FlatOut 3 | PC |
| 9 | Batman: Arkham City | PC |
| 10 | Rome: Total War | PC |
