All Entries in the "PC Games" Category

Blizzard Customer Support is Not a Teen Suicide Hotline?!?

Teenage suicide? Don’t do it. And don’t threaten that you’re going to kill yourself to Blizzard Entertainment customer support representatives via online chat, because that will land your ass in jail. (Pro tip!)
Unfortunately, one 17-year old doofus from Middletown, Ohio hadn’t learned that lesson in time, making a phony threat while chatting in-game with a [...]

World Of Warcraft Reaches 11.5 Million

So the wife and I Joined up with Gamerchick39(Our cousin and Author on Plasma Burn) and are back to our WoW Addict ways. So we are considered 2 of the 11.5 Million subscribers.
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft has reached 11.5 million subscribers, meaning Azeroth has surpassed the great state of Ohio’s population. [...]

Spore now DRM-Free

Starting Monday, Electronics Arts will sell its popular video game Spore free of any digital rights management restrictions.

It’s part of a slew of titles which EA will offer on Valve’s Steam distribution platform, according to a report by Ars Technica. Besides Spore, the collection will include Warhammer Online, Need for Speed Undercover, Mass Effect, and FIFA Manager 09. Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, and SiN Episodes: Emergence are already available on the service, and there are more on the way.

Is Prince of Persia worth the buy?

Anyone who has played any Prince of Persia game knows there is a certain amount of frustration thrown into them, so why play something that has the power to make you scream “SCREW IT” and turn off your console? The key is that Ubisoft puts so much more into the game that makes you ignore [...]

Greys Anatomy game. Your Kidding me right?

Ubisoft drops the Hero’s Tv series game for Grey’s Anatomy??????   Your kidding me right?   Here is from Joystiq
Several retail listings indicate that a Grey’s Anatomy video game will release on PC next March. The beauty of this story is that the game is published by Ubisoft, which recently dropped the rights to a Heroes video [...]

Logitech Announces the G13 and G18, I Want one Mom!

Check it PC and Mac gamers, Logitech just announced its G13 Gameboard. With a trio of game modes, built-in 160 x 43 pixel LCD for stats and messaging, 25 programmable keys, and a programmable joystick, Logitech says that the G13 “offers up to 87 ways for you to control your game.” It comes with pre-configured [...]

In Need Of A Free Gaming Rig? Big Download has got you covered.

BigDownload.com is giving away an insanely high-end gaming rig. The computer is built by iBuyPower.com and it packs a wallop. What powers this beast? Dual ATI 4870s, the latest Intel i7 processor, a 1 TB Harddrive,  6 gigs of ram, Blueray drive, 8 channel surround sound, and a 20.1” Sceptre Monitor. The computer retails for  [...]

Mythic delaying work on Warhammer expansion to improve live game

As the recently released expansion for World of Warcraft clearly displayed with its mind-boggling sales figures, add-ons for MMOs (particularly ones with a large player base) can be lucrative undertakings. Despite this fact, Mythic developer Mark Jacobs recently issued a surprising statement on a Warhammer Online forum thread in which commenters were discussing features they’d [...]

Spore top the List of Most Pirated games. No Kidding?

This morning im doing my normal scan of recent gaming news, and what is this I run across? Spore top the list of Pirated PC Games of 2008.  Yea well no kidding, what fool in there right mind would want to buy a game that you can only install twice before you have to call [...]

Blizzard legal targets WoW Private Servers

Privately run WoW servers have been dropping like flies in the last day or so after receiving letters from Blizzard’s lawyers under the DMCA. They’ve been shut down so quickly and rapidly that it’s being heralded as “the end of private servers” by quite a few people. The biggest and most well known servers such [...]

Beam me up some new Screenshots

Admit it, watching that guy play the Star Trek theme on the Wiimote  gave you a powerful appetite for Roddenberry’s magnum opus — we highly suggest satisfying your interstellar jones with three new screenshots for Cryptic’s Star Trek Online, available in the gallery below. These are easily the best-looking images to come out of the game thus far — just look at [...]

CoD:WaW Double Points Weekend

According to this Kotaku report, next weekend means double XP for those owning the limited edition.
Both PC and 360 versions get the boost. The event runs from midnight PST on December 5 to December 12.
If you’ve got the 360 edition, you need to make sure it’s fully activated, and you only get the bonus if [...]

Teacher uses “Sex Text” and World Of Warcraft to Seduce Student

 
A British schoolteacher was threatened with jail today after she admitted she had used “the interactive game Warcraft” to forge a relationship with a 14-year-old boy to whom she later sent sexually explicit text messages.
According to the Mirror.co.uk, Lynn Walls, a 42-year-old primary school teacher in Gateshead,  sent the boy “a series of graphic texts in [...]

90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted

A couple of years after opening, a “game addiction” clinic in Amsterdam is still doing swift business, but its founder says he has realized that game addiction isn’t really the problem. In fact, Smith & Jones Centre founder Keith Bakker says that 90 percent of those diagnosed with addiction are actually just compulsive gamers, pegging [...]

Viagra Game?

Although the US Food and Drug Administration cut off Pfizer’s Viagra advergame back in September, it appears the details are just coming out now. The Multinational Monitor notes the FDA requested that the pharmaceutical company remove the game from the interwebs after it decided Viva Cruiser failed “to disclose any risk information for the drug.”
According [...]