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EA announces free Battlefield game

Posted on January 21st, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

EA is attempting to do what Ubisoft did last September, release games for free with advertising. Only difference is that it’s a new game called Battlefield Heroes, and it’s not Ubisoft. The game is primarily online play with matchmaking. Battlefield Heroes looks a lot like Team Fortress 2 in graphics style. But then being a cheap game, did you expect Crysis graphics?

The game also supports “micro-transitions”. In other words, you will have to pay for cool weapons and other addons for the game. Clever…

For now, that’s all we know. EA isn’t telling anyone but the Games For Windows magazine any more details. Battlefield Heroes should release sometime this Summer.

Battlefield Heroes’ website can be found here.

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Valve makes pointless Nvidia deal

Posted on January 9th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

Valve has teamed up with Nvidia to bundle a copy of Portal with future Nvidia graphics cards. Isn’t that awesome? The catch? It’s an “extended” demo not a full free game. The game promotion also applies to current owners of Nvidia cards and the offer will be hooked (you will see an advertisement saying this offer is available) with future driver updates (if you happen not to know. But you do know because you are reading it here).

If I was Nvidia, I would rather have my name plastered on a $15 dollar off coupon deal instead of this crap Valve tries to push on us. Or give us the full game for free. If you haven’t noticed, people love free (which applies to mostly everything). Free = more potential customers. Think about it Valve.

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Rockstar Games on Steam

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

Steam announced today that all of Rockstar Games’ games for the PC are now available for purchase via the Steam Marketplace. All Rockstar games are on sale, 10% off until January 11.

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Best of 2007 #1: Call of Duty 4

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Wailord.
Categories: Best of 2007, Gaming, PC, PS3, Xbox360.

Call of Duty 4 is the best game I’ve ever played. Goodbye, Team Fortress 2. Goodbye, BioShock. So sorry, Valve and 2K; there’s a new sheriff in town- Infinity Ward.

Infinity Ward brings to the table the first Call of Duty game not set in the Second World War, and their first in the franchise since CoD2- needless to say, it’s the best iteration yet.

Personally, I grabbed the game for the Multiplayer, with absolutely no intention of playing the single-player. Just for kicks, I decided to try it out…wow.

The game’s set in the Middle East/Russia, where a fictional and radical al Queda-esque group’s leader overthrows the government, reminding you of the whole Hitler regime. Your goal of the game is to stop this uprising, and to take care of any bumps along the way. The story grabs you from the very, very beginning where you infiltrate the enemy’s cargo ship (and it’s attacked) to the very traumatic ending.

That’s just the single-player campaign. The multiplayer (why I bought the game, as I played the beta) is absolutely insanely without-a-doubt bar-none no-doubt-about-it undeniably freaking awesome. Yeah, it’s that good. There’s a leveling system that gives you a ton of incentive to keep on playing, and many, many maps and modes to keep things fresh. Overall, the multiplayer is…yeah, the best I’ve played. Again.

So, Call of Duty 4 grabbed the #1 spot. Mind you, this top 10 has been solely based on our opinions here at GameSpotting!- if you could choose, what would your top game be? What games do you think were snubbed? What deserved to be higher?

Recap:
1. Call of Duty 4
2. The Orange Box
3. Super Mario Galaxy
4. BioShock
5. Halo 3
6. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition
7. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
8. Ace Combat 6
9. Sam & Max Season One
10. Beautiful Katamari

Clearly, 2007 was insanely awesome, game-wise. Happy New Year, everyone, and here’s to an even better (?!) 2008!

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Best of 2007 #2: The Orange Box

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by MASA.
Categories: Best of 2007, Gaming, PC, Xbox360.

The so called “best video game deal of the century” is number 2 on the Best of 2007 list. The Orange Box lives up to this title because it is an awesome deal. I’m not much of a Half-Life fan, I was more excited about the other features in the box. Specifically Portal and Team Fortress 2. Though I did play a bit of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

Portal, though short, was definitely sweet. GLaDOS was hilarious and was a great bad girl for the game. Portal lived up to most of the stuff I hoped it to be. It had a great deal of difficulty to it though. And at times I wished that it was longer. The commentary was excellent and contributed to the humor of the game. Especially with the best credits song ever, Still Alive.

Team Fortress 2, after several years of delays and rumors, TF2 finally released. TF2 is a fragalicious game, with funky characters, set in an almost Meet the Robinsons style (the book not the movie). What can I say? It’s a fun game, and to really get the gist of it, you should just play it yourself. Oh and Steam is the worst thing ever. Better to get the Orange Box for the Xbox 360.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2, The newest episode features a ton of new visual effects and changes in physics. Most games this year have been short in story, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 adds onto that list of games with short completion times. However, the new graphics and the improvements of Alyx as a teammate and several plot twists kept this game interesting.

All together, The Orange Box proved to be a bunch of games and an incredibly low price. Cheap high quality games are always appreciated.

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Best of 2007 #4: BioShock

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Wailord.
Categories: Best of 2007, Gaming, PC, Xbox360.

A man…has a choice. I chose…BioShock.
Welcome to Rapture. The underwater thriller is near-perfect from start-to-finish, and has everything that a good game needs: graphics, a story, and gameplay. The controls are flawless, the Plasmid system is awesome (with nice controls to go with it), and the story is probably the best I’ve seen in a game…ever. You start off on a plane (for a few seconds), only to have it crash (why did it crash? that’s for the player to decide…). You are dying in the water, near-drowning, and need something to save you, and quick- there, in the corner! That lighthouse!

You enter…but who would have expected a gateway to something as horrible as Rapture?

The game has won many, many, many awards, such as…
Best Original Score (VGAs), Best Xbox 360 Game (VGAs), Game of the Year (VGAs), Best Xbox 360 Game (Metacritic), Best Xbox 360 Game (GameRankings). As well as THIRTY 10/10s, not including one from me.

While BioShock may have been a cinematic perfection, it had its flaws. The game was too easy and too short for my liking, but that puts hardly the dent in this masterpiece.

If you would like to know more about BioShock, please read my review.

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Best of 2007 #9: Sam & Max Season 1

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by MASA.
Categories: Best of 2007, Gaming, PC.

Sam & Max seems somewhat silly to put here. But in the end it really deserves it. The game plays funny, where it’s mostly point and click. Games of that sort tend to get boring easily. However, Sam & Max’s humor keeps the game going. TellTale, the makers of the game, did a great job making the world cartoonish.

To say the least, it’s a great series. And to give away one episode for free, was a very awesome thing to do. The game is filled with classic humor and great songs like the War Song sung by giddy Secret Service Agents. The game goes on as you try to solve mysteries as to who is hypnotizing people. You can pretty much interact with everything in sight, from talking computers who make byte jokes to things like mounted moose heads. Yeah, it’s that bizarre, and it’s worth picking up. If you don’t feel like spending money, you should at least play the free game.

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Tetris is dangerous

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Dddawn.
Categories: Gaming, Old School, PC.

Raymond D. Souza, a Canadian column writer, called video games “the crack cocaine of the electronic world” in one of his columns recently. He said that in his second year at Queen’s University, Tetris contributed to his “worst performance in 12 years of post-secondary education.”

Souza says that after deleting Tetris from his hard drive, he has not touched another video game. He also blames video games for taking time, health, and thought away from kids, and that they celebrate graphic violence, multifarious delinquency, and borderline pornography.

While the graphic violence and multifarious delinquency are, for the most part, true, I don’t think I’ll be seeing my Grand Theft Auto-playing nephew shooting up his kindergarten class any time soon. Nor do I find fitting colored blocks into slots as any sort of reason for poor performance in school, especially for someone as seemingly intelligent as Mr. Souza. But that’s just my opinion.

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Lose/Lose Situation for PS3 Owners

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Dddawn.
Categories: Gaming, PC, PS3, Xbox360.

Most PS3 owners know that when it comes to multiplatform games, the other platforms’ versions are usually much faster and less choppy. The Orange Box is to be no different. Many think it is because while the PC and 360 versions were handled mostly by Valve, the PS3 version was developed by an internal team at EA. It was originally scheduled to be released with its counterparts, but now has been delayed until December because of technical flaws still needing to be fixed. This means that PS3 owners will have to wait even longer for their (what seem to be) substandard versions of Half-Life 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.

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ABE LINCOLN MUST DIE! Telltale releases episode of that name

Posted on November 9th, 2007 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

Telltale games, producers of the Sam & Max video games have blown up the big pricetag of the Sam & Max episode of that name (Abe Lincoln must die). While it’s title doesn’t sound very patriotic, the game itself isn’t really either. More of a crazy hilarious game that’s now free. Yeah, it’s free. Everyone loves free. Everyone also loves incredibly fast downloads. Which is gonna happen right about now.

The download is about 82MBs and the link is to the direct file. Have fun..

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Crysis Demo released

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by MASA.
Categories: Gaming, PC.

A few days ago, EA posted a demo for the next game made by the Far Cry developers, CryTek. The game, otherwise known as Crysis, is a 1.8 GB download and contains the Sandbox editor, which allows you to just play around with tools to make new levels and such. Then to test it out you can spawn yourself in them. A fun feature to be included in a demo.

The demo also contains the first Single Player level, known as Contact.

The Crysis Demo can be downloaded here. The full game comes out on November 16^th.

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