Friday, January 18, 2008

1up Compiles The Best 101 Free Games of 2007

I just downloaded fear combat, sumotari dreams, and crayon physics. Awesome list.

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2007 in PC Hardware

An article on Yougamers.com which shows data based on what hardware on PC gamers are using. The data is gathered from 3dMark 06.

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Play HEROIN HERO!!!!

The guitar hero south park episode game.as real as in on tv

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New Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Trailer Released!

As promised, first new Duke Nukem Forever video in over six years has been released. "The release is still 'when it's done,' but you can expect more frequent media releases and we're not changing engines again and we have considerable work behind us," Broussard told Shacknews. Original voice actor Jon St. John and composer Jeremy Soule involved.

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PC Gaming rig guide for 2008 - DX10, Vista can wait

Looking back at 2007 in PC game hardware requirements, YouGamers tells you what the future will hold for PC gaming. GPU vendors push DX10, but Vista adoption rate is poor and DX10-only games are nowhere to be seen - whereas CPU vendors attempt to push more cores into your every orifice but games that use them are few. YG tells what to buy for 2008.

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New TF2 Maps, Achievements and 'Large Scale' Gameplay Shift

Two new maps for Valve's Team Fortress 2 will hopefully arrive within the next two months, the studio has informed Shacknews. That other content includes the forthcoming Medic achievement pack, which will add several new achievements for the Medic as well as a significant gameplay tweak for the class.

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A free sampler of Portal for NVIDIA GeForce owners.

"All NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of Portal™: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting www.steamgames.com/nvidia1 and "Taking the test." Steam will then auto-detect the presence of NVIDIA hardware and make Portal: First Slice available immediately, free of charge..."

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3D Realms Use BitTorrent to Promote Duke Nukem Forever

The PC game ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ has been in production for 10 years so one way or another, it must’ve cost the developers a small fortune. However, as 3D Realms have decided to release their latest teaser on BitTorrent, distribution of their advertising content by this method will be reduced to zero. Groovy.

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Black Mesa Media Update

After a few months silence, the Black Mesa team has posted a massive media update with stunning screens that will bring some classic Half-Life 1 memories flooding back

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Chinese Teen Burns Classmate, Blames World Of Warcraft

After losing a schoolyard fight, a 17-year-old boy in Beijing recently covered a classmate with gasoline and lit him on fire, claiming he was a fire mage in World of Warcraft.

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