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Aug 25, 2008

Gaming to go

PC Feature | PC

“Laptops can’t play games.” This is a truism up there with “bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly,” “dogs can’t look up” and “robots do not understand this human thing you call love.” It’s baloney.

Even the cheapest laptop on sale today can play hundreds, if not thousands of games. ...

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Aug 18, 2008

Walk this way

PC Feature | PC

The human eye is a merciless critic of videogame animation. Stiff, unnatural, or repetitive motions are easily detected and remind us that we’re stuck inside a clockwork world of predetermined paths and movements. NaturalMotion wants to wipe animations like these off the map, and it’s going in the opposite direction as just about everyone else to do so.Most developers aiming for realistic human animation use data from motion-capture ...

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Aug 15, 2008

Team Fortress 2 Heavy achievements revealed?

PC Feature | PC

Word spread quickly when Valve began posting early details about their next big update for Team Fortress 2. Our eyes went straight to the list of new achievements for the Heavy, which you can find here. But Valve’s titillating tease didn’t stop there. It seems they’ve left a trail of clues for fans to follow in the filenames of all the Heavy’s new achievement icons. Right-click on any of these new icons and ...
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Aug 14, 2008

Control issues

PC Feature | PC

Dear SimColumnist: What kind of steering wheel (or joystick) should I use? I hear it all the time, especially from racing- or flight-sim newcomers intimidated by some perceived necessity for an expensive top-of-the-line controller. Well, I’ve managed to muddle through the past couple of decades with a variety of sticks, wheels, and other bits of simming hardware, and this month I’ll impart my accumulated wisdom (such as it is) on the

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Aug 13, 2008

WMD-related program activities

PC Feature | PC

It has long been my belief that building a superweapon should make you feel like a power-crazed madman (kind of like Kim Jong-Il, except better looking) and grant you an awesome destructive capability more than potent enough to compensate for any shortcomings you may have been teased about in the high school locker room. ...

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Aug 13, 2008

Do the right thing

PC Feature | PC

It may not flash its naughty bits every time it exits an automobile, but the PC still generates at least one good scandal a month. The latest brouhaha: EA’s initial plan to employ draconian digital rights management measures on Mass Effect and SPORE. The original plan called for online authentication during installation, and then again every 10 days for the duration of the games’ life on your PC. Following fan outcry, ...

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Aug 11, 2008

A FREE alternative to Guitar Hero!

PC Feature | PC

Rock games may have originated on consoles, but they’re making a smooth transition to the PC—and I’m not just talking about the Windows version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock that debuted last fall. PC gamers now have freebie alternatives to Slash’s favorite recreational pursuit (next to heroin), thanks to a pair of indie guitar games called Frets on Fire and Guitar Zero. Both can essentially ...

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Aug 8, 2008

The Devil Returns

PC Feature | PC

Praise be to Blizzard for not abandoning us. For a while, it seemed Blizzard was so giddy over the truly monstrous success of World of Warcraft that it might shelve its non-MMO Diablo and StarCraft franchises. That decision wouldn’t have been unprecedented, as EA and Origin Systems stopped Origin’s development of non-MMO games and let the legendary single-player Ultima and Wing Commander series lie fallow after Ultima Online ...

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Aug 7, 2008

Hater Boy

PC Feature | PC

Remember in Star Wars, when Obi Wan felt a disturbance in the Force as the planet Alderaan was destroyed? That’s the same tingling sensation I felt when I awoke on the morning of June 28. I thought it could be a hangover, but regardless, something didn’t feel right. Something was…different. It wasn’t until I opened my web browser that I realized what it was: Diablo III had been announced. And that disturbance I felt? ...

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Jul 31, 2008

A Modest Proposal

PC Feature | PC

We love videogames. Well, I know I love videogames. I imagine you love videogames, too, because you’re reading this site, after all.But we get it—we know that games are fun and safe, no matter how edgy the content is. And yet there are people—a lot of them—who are terrified that videogames will turn us all into violent, demented serial killers. ...
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