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The Reviewer's Guide to Crap Games (Lair)

Sep 11, 2007

Sept 11 2007 You might have heard about Lair being a bit rubs. You might have read our 5/10 review. And you might also have seen that Sony and developer Factor 5 weren't pleased - reacting to the many paltry scores by issuing a 'reviewer's guide' to the tragically disappointing dragon-riding actioner. To which your response may have been "What the f-!?". We weren't so surprised. After all, it was Sony who once conjured up a make-believe film critic to heap praise on its own films. And it's ...

E3 09: Project Trico vs The Last Guardian - a picture comparison (The Last Guardian)

Jun 3, 2009

The first footage of Project Trico leaked onto the interwebs still has us awestruck. But although beautiful, mysterious and artistically striking in the style of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, the footage is at least 18 months old. Well, now Trico has a new name, The Last Guardian, and the trailer shown at Sony’s press conference shows just what Team ICO have been doing since then. Below you’ll find a picture comparison between ...

Secrets of the Project Trico trailer revealed (The Last Guardian)

May 20, 2009

We’ve been staring at that chain picture for what seems like years now. Ever since Team ICO let their one solitary screenshot slip from their collective clutches we’ve been obsessing over the rusty piece of metal. What was it for? Where did it lead to? What did it have to do with Ico or Shadow of the Colossus? Well, thanks to the first Project Trico trailer being leaked onto the land of the internets, we need wonder no more. ...

League of Legends - 500 beta keys and an exclusive reveal (League of Legends)

Sep 25, 2009

Defense of the Ancients (also known as DotA) just might be the most important mod ever made for a PC game. DotA is one of the main reasons why millions of players still play Warcraft III today, and it has influenced quite a few recently released and upcoming spiritual successors to the team-based/action RTS ...

League of Legends beta key giveaway (League of Legends)

Aug 5, 2009

It’s been about six years since Defense of the Ancients, a multiplayer mod for Warcraft III, was released - and it’s still making waves. It’s one of the main reasons why players still logon to play Warcraft III to this day - and lately, we’ve seen its influence on several recently released and upcoming team-based RTS/action games. But one of the most interesting DotA-like titles is right around the corner. ...

The 37 greatest zombie triumphs (Left 4 Dead)

Oct 27, 2009

You don’t have to see or play absolutely everything on this list to be a proper zombie connoisseur, but you should at least know them. These are the genre’s defining relics. Some are responsible for the very creation of the zombie mythos, others adapted and advanced it, while the rest simply encapsulate it so exquisitely that they must be experienced. This may not be everyone’s definitive list of zombie lore ...

Left 4 Dead - Crash Course DLC review (Left 4 Dead)

Oct 15, 2009

If Left 4 Dead has any one problem, it’s the sheer bloody length of its campaign missions. With four chapters in a campaign it’s perfectly possible to spend an hour blazing through zombie hordes, but with eight chapters in a versus match games drag on.

So goes Valve’s justification for Crash Course’s half-hour, two chapter length. It all sounds a little suspect, but it turns out they’re on to something ...

10 most frustrating things about gaming online (Left 4 Dead)

Aug 4, 2009

Online gaming is completely different to offline play. There's a tangible buzz and quickening of the heart-rate when you're leading a race on the last lap or sniping some guy in Australia, which you simply can't get from a single-player experience. But this experience can be so easily ruined by a few small things ...

The Top 7… 2008 games we can't stop playing (Left 4 Dead)

Jul 27, 2009

Unless you’re an eagle-eyed bargain hunter, the price of videogames can put a serious dent in your finances. Here in the US, $60 a pop means the game in question needs to offer hours of content to offset the steadily increasing cost. ...

The Top 7... badass old folks (Left 4 Dead)

Jul 13, 2009

And why they'd be the most awesome grandparents in the world. ...

10 characters who know smoking is cool (Left 4 Dead)

Jun 16, 2009

For too long, political correctness has choked expression much like smoking might choke someone’s lungs. Back in the good old days, it was common for prominent pillars of society to be seen smoking: baseball players, gangsters, Popeye. Now it’s incredibly frowned upon, because “smoking may slowly kill you,” if you believe “proven medical facts.” ...

TalkRadar 48 - police are involved (Left 4 Dead)

Apr 24, 2009

Post date: April 24, 2009
T-Dar 48 length: 2:04:09
Quote of the week: “When do we get the .fart URL?” ...

Left 4 Dead Lighthouse guide (Left 4 Dead)

Apr 22, 2009

Left 4 Dead is the best thing that happened to zombies since 28 Days Later, and Valve’s recent release of the free Survival Pack for the PC and 360 only sweetens the deal. The highlights of the fresh content are the Survival Mode and the new Lighthouse map that comes with it. Think of Survival Mode as an ultra condensed version of Left 4 Dead on steroids. ...

Turn Left 4 Dead into a comedy (Left 4 Dead)

Apr 16, 2009

Who says surviving the zombie apocalypse is serious business? Thanks to the large collection of fun fan-made stuff on sites like FPSBanana, you can quickly transform Valve’s survival/horror shooter into an absurd adventure - full of Hello Kitty Hunters and Smokers who spout words of wisdom from Randy (oh yeah!) Savage. ...

Revealed: the games your girlfriend HATES (Left 4 Dead)

Mar 24, 2009

Contrary to popular belief, most gamers are not sniveling, sweaty-palmed Towers of Awkward roaming the streets in search of any woman who will have them. In fact, most of us find a girl who’s willing to put up with our gaming habits, and forgive the many hours spent saving the world from glowy-eyed zombie Nazis.

But guess what – there’s at least one game that’s driving your girlfriend batshit insane. She might ...

Gaming's biggest price drops (Left 4 Dead)

Mar 18, 2009

Every gamer goes crazy for the great taste of low prices! As such, Valve founder sent forth a verbal boot to the ass at this year’s DICE summit, decrying publishers for rigid prices and an inability to keep the marketplace in flux. The internet rejoiced. ...

Developer's commentary - Left 4 Dead (Left 4 Dead)

Feb 9, 2009

Chet Faliszek first boarded the Valve mothership when his prodigious writing talents, alongside those of his buddy Erik Wolpaw, were spotted at famed gaming website Old Man Murray (oldmanmurray.com). Since then he’s worked on the Half-Life 2 Episodes and Team Fortress 2, working with new techniques of contextual dialogue and background storytelling. Recently Chet’s been the face of Left 4 Dead, the non-rotting one at least. ...

Commandments of Co-op (Left 4 Dead)

Jan 12, 2009

Along with the PC Gamer staff, I just can’t get enough of 2008’s multiplayer game of the year, Left 4 Dead. The formidable team of Stapleton, Lahti, Chan, and Will Smith (of Maximum PC fame) has exhausted all of the game’s missions, and we’ve reached a point where we can complete any campaign on the Advanced difficulty setting with relative ease. But to get to this point, we’ve had to teach ourselves some important ...

What's your most prized Achievement or Trophy of 2008? (Left 4 Dead)

Dec 23, 2008

Read about our (and our contributors') most prized Achievements and Trophies of the year - then tell us your own! ...

Dynamic deathmatch dungeons (Left 4 Dead)

Nov 19, 2008

This past month, I was fortunate enough to be invited by Reviews Editor Dan Stapleton to “assist” in his review of Left 4 Dead, joining him in an exhausting marathon session of zombie-slaying while he evaluated the game (you can read his review on page 30). I agreed with him on his verdict—namely that the game is crazy awesome—but after 15 hours of nearly continuous undead brain-bashing, a troubling thought wandered into ...