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Fallout soundtrack released in higher quality

Keeping true to his promise made during an interview a while and a half ago, Mark Morgan, the soundtrack creator for the PC games Fallout & Fallout 2 has made the effort to release them in higher quality for free. This is definitely an awesome move on Morgan’s part– unfortunately, Bethesda, the new owner of the Fallout [...]

Dirt multiplayer non-support

I touched on the subject of online gaming services recently; “Account creation failed” Would you believe that a game from 3 years ago is considered too old to support? No joke. Codemasters discontinued online support of the PC game Colin McRae Dirt with little or no explanation; even though the game never have true multiplayer [...]

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing and the proliferation of faster, cheaper and better designed mobile devices to many would signal the end of the PC era. Slashdot recently posted a very interesting article/discussion on it, more interesting than the original article are the comments made by nerds from far and wide who think its a big crock. I’d [...]

The bullshit of gaming services

Duke Nukem 3D had TEN (defunct) Red Alert 2 had Westwood online (defunct) Midtown Madness had MSN Gaming Zone (defunct) Delta Force had Novaworld (still running) Half Life had WON (since transitioned to a newer service) Why do developers think that these are good? Even recently I purchased Borderlands for PC and it came with [...]

DLC

A lot gets said about DLC’s affect on gaming; all I have to say is that a future with DLC is a future without community projects like Black Mesa Source. Black Mesa Source is a conversion of the original Half Life game to the Source engine; its a collaborative effort of almost 40 people to [...]