Abstracting hardware: obsolescence obsolete (with OnLive)
Most everyone has heard the news of OnLive, the new cloud-based computer gaming platform. I’m not here to regurgitate that for you. Instead, I intend to give it some context. Cloud computing is all the rage right now. With netbooks…
The Space Game: a deep Flash RTS
The Space Game is a deep and satisfying RTS developed on Adobe’s Flash platform. It has a bit of a tower defense flavor with the resource collection of an RTS. You start with a solar station which provides you with…
Gaming’s underground: an indie games primer
Like most commercial artforms, video games have a vibrant community that exists outside the commercial realm. People are making games that are less influenced by the marketability of the graphics, the concept, and the gameplay conventions—and in many cases they…
Three great gaming blogs (two new to me)
Awesome gaming blogs are coming out of the woodwork. I have found two excellent blogs in the past week that were not at all on my radar before. The first is Play This Thing! That’s their exclamation, not mine, but…
Purchase and download old PC games on the cheap
Good Old Games is a digital download service offering PC games that, while they aren’t going to tax your new GTX 295, are some of the greatest titles of their time. Fortunately, they also won’t tax your wallet much. We’re…
Doom 4 tidbits
In spite of the fact that I am now a huge Valve/Half-life fan, I still remember the time when id Software was a completely dominant force in the space of first-person shooters. Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports on a small info-leak…
Oregon Trail making a comback?
Oregon Trail, the computer game released on multiple platforms beginning way back in 1971, is making something of a comeback online. I have to admit I have gotten caught up in the fuss by playing through the game as emulated…
Best games of 2008 you’ve never played
It seems odd to me that an article about the best games of the past year that didn’t receive much attention found a home at PC World especially since the list is not exclusive to PC games. The title of…
City Rain: Awesome twist on city building
IndieGames.com spills the beans on City Rain—a cross between a city-building sim and a falling block game. It sounds to me like just the twist to bring new life into this sub-genre that has remained virtually unchanged since the release…
Titan Quest digital download only $3.99
Many gamers had nearly forgotten about the Diablo series until the recent hype over the third installment in the series. However, in the heyday of the first two games, there were quite a few knock-offs and imitators. Of course, they…