I was browsing Good Old Games’ catalog the other day and noticed they’ve put up the entire Ultima saga, all re-wrapped and verified to run on modern operating systems, from Windows XP through Windows 7. Madness! (In a crazy-good …
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The 11 Things I Like Least About Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 forces you to hunt for bad things to say about it. I mean it — you really have to try. And since I’d rather work a little than glide down another compliment slide, it’s probably time for a gripe post.
They’re …
Back to the Farm: Zynga Launches FarmVille 2
At the height of the FarmVille craze, back in 2010, there were two kinds of Facebook users: those who were addicted to FarmVille, and those whose friends were addicted to FarmVille.
Zynga’s creation wasn’t the first one to let …
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Connor: How Ubisoft Avoided Stereotypes and Made a Real Character
About one year into the making of Assassin’s Creed III, the team at Ubisoft Montreal realized they needed help with their protagonist.
Ubisoft had the concept for a half-Mohawk, half-British assassin named Connor, who would …
The Fall 2012 Video Game Lineup: 15 Games to Watch
There’s something for everyone on this list of fall 2012’s most anticipated PC, console and handheld video games.
Is Valve Really Getting into the Hardware Biz?
By all accounts — most conspicuously its own — Valve, the PC-centric games developer that brought us games like Half-Life and Portal as well as distribution service Steam, has finally admitted it’s leaping into the PC hardware …
The 10 Best New Skyrim Mods for August 2012
An orbital spacecraft? A way for vampires to finally morph into a cloud of bats and zip around? A bear that can jam like Dick Dale? That and more in our pick of August’s best new Skyrim mods.
Guild Wars 2 Isn’t Just About PvP or World Versus World, Says Producer
Continuing my conversation with Guild Wars 2 executive producer and ArenaNet co-founder and president Mike O’Brien, we cover the game’s action-focused, tactics-minded combat, touch on PvP and World vs. World and the game’s …
Guild Wars 2 Producer: We’d Turn Off Sales to Preserve the Game Experience
If you’ve had my experience playing Guild Wars 2, you’ve seen few if any in-game hiccups, no random disconnects and no just-trying-to-get-in-the-game server stonewalling. But if you follow online discussion groups, you’ve …
Guild Wars 2 Sales: One Million Pre-Served, Record 400,000 Playing at Once
Guild Wars 2 is finally here! Or wait, wasn’t it already here three days ago? And…okay, hold on a second, didn’t it somehow launch just yesterday, too?
Guild Wars 2: It’s the Pinball Machine of MMOs
Guild Wars 2 is one of those rare games that knocks your life off-kilter like a meteoroid banging into a satellite. That’s how it’s been for me, anyway. I knew it was coming, but, fool that I am, wasn’t paying attention. I’d …
In Memory of Nintendo Power
At the end of this year, the lights will turn off at Nintendo Power. Future US, which has produced the long-running magazine for the last five years, is pulling out, and Nintendo says it won’t seek a new publisher according to …