Archive for January, 2011
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Monday, January 10th, 2011Westwood Studios was the pioneer of the real-time strategy genre, and now it’s set on blazing a trail through an unexplored section of another realm — namely, the first big-name space-themed massively multiplayer RPG. It’s a refreshing take on the genre in a number of ways. For one thing, it’s great to finally have a [...]
Earth 2150: Lost Souls
Monday, January 10th, 2011Lost Souls picks up where the first two acclaimed Earth 2150 games left off, with billions of people having already evacuated Earth before its degenerating orbit leads to natural cataclysms of apocalyptic proportions. Three factions now fight to gain access to escape ships or, failing that, to take revenge on those they blame for their [...]
Echelon: Wind Warriors
Monday, January 10th, 2011Russian developer Madia earned a PCG Editors’ Choice award for Echelon when this futuristic flight combat sim shipped three years ago. An equally ambitious sequel has just made it to North American shores, and although it’s not as fresh or original as its parent game, you’ll still eat up the “blow-the-living-crap-out-of-stuff” experience. Set in the [...]
Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
Monday, January 10th, 2011Six long years passed before Elder Scrolls fans got their sequel to Daggerfall. Thankfully, Morrowind (PCG rating: 90%, July 2002) proved worth the wait, and now the expansions are coming thick and fast. Bloodmoon, the second add-on, takes place in the frigid island of Solstheim, where another dark threat needs thwarting. A cast of all-new [...]
Patch for Need for Speed Underground 2
Monday, January 10th, 2011Need for Speed is a franchise. That’s why I’m bringing the patch for Need for Speed Underground 2 on PC version. This patch fixes some pretty significant problems, such as performance Nvidia 6800 card that use high resolutions, the ability to create LAN games require Internet connection and other technical details very annoying. The patch [...]
Emergency Fire Response
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Think you’ve got what it takes to be a modern-day hero? Emergency Fire Response — known in Europe as Fire Department or Fire Chief — is a squad-based strategy game that challenges you to control a team of skilled firefighters and their vehicles. Missions range from the somewhat easy (quenching a warehouse fire caused by [...]
Emergency Rescue
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Emergency Rescue Firefighters, from our “friends” at Wizard Works, has a really, really cool box. It shows a brave firefighter ready to tackle a blazing inferno of death. It’s multi-layered and embossed with a cutout of the firefighter up front and raging flames in the back, all outlined with shiny, silver foil. Mmm…shiny, silver foil. [...]
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Sunday, January 9th, 2011For anyone who’s played Zeus, Pharaoh, or other city-building simulations from Impressions and Sierra, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom will feel as comfortable as a new pair of shoes. Well-traveled veterans of the genre can delve immediately into yet another ancient culture, with only an occasional need to glance at the manual; the downside [...]
Is this the PSP2?
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Here are some interesting images that mythical PSP2, which would have been seen by some scholars who later made a description to an artist and then we come to these very well-designed images . The idea is to give a refined version of the PSP, which has almost become a dodo in recent years and [...]
Old Time Baseball
Saturday, January 8th, 2011By Bill Meyer A strange irony plagues most baseball sims. Their developers, for the sake of authenticity, will exert serious sweat gathering players and stats, and create a number-cruncher to track all the hits, errors, wins, and losses. Unfortunately, these same developers also ignore the basic necessities for realistic play on the field. Old Time [...]
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