EA may have their own digital distribution mechanism, but that won’t stop Steam users from spectacularly splattering alien guts all over North Korea’s top-secret island military installations. Through a partnership between Crytek and Valve, Crysis and its expansion pack-cum-sequel Crysis Warhead are now available for preorder on Steam at $40 and $30 respectively. The full [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
You don’t have to buy the Ultra Optimized PC to play Crysis Warhead properly, but you’ll be getting one hell of a deal if you do. This afternoon, the man responsible for the build, configuration and marketing of the $700 machine told GameCyte that not only will the system come with everything you’d expect, but [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
In their latest salvo against PC gaming naysayers and those who believe DRM is the answer to the format’s piracy woes, publisher Stardock has today released a PC-centric “Gamer’s Bill of Rights,” a set of ten rules by which they believe all PC game publishers should abide. While some might argue that the document is [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
Fantasy MMORPGs are a tricky thing to report one’s impressions on. Here is a genre of game whose very design is intended to be epic and time-consuming, providing players with dozens upon dozens of hours of large, suitably “massive” tasks like exploring a sprawling new game world, battling and questing your way through a rich, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 19, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Enthusiast: Lightsaber Duels come to Wii, just as disgruntled former LucasArts staffer revealed; producer interviewed at (IGN) Disgruntled staffer kicks himself for forgetting to leak info on the stylus-driven DS clone (IGN) Crysis Warhead runs well on $620 PC, Crytek claims (PC Games via Shacknews) Walking is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Though we’ve known since late April that Crytek would begin developing titles for multiple platforms, it never crossed our minds — not for a second — that the team responsible for lush, tropical videogames that eat state of the art videocards whole might find themselves creating a portable title. But unless June 16th is the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 9, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Updated on the fly: Enthusiast: Call of Duty 5 subtitled World at War, detailed in OXM; set in WWII Pacific theatre; features online co-op over Xbox LIVE (Official Xbox Magazine via CVG) iPhone gets first original game in September, an action-adventure named Kroll (Joystiq) Crytek clarifies “no more PC [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Croatian gaming mag PC Play has a revealing interview with Crytek president Cevat Yerli, in which we find that piracy is forcing the German studio to develop multi-platform titles.
Continue reading...
Monday, September 15, 2008
1 Comment