Whether you’ve been playing as adamantly as I or you’ve taken a break from the game, the new Left 4 Dead content will renew your zombie-killing addiction. What was a phenomenal game of last year remains just as awesome this year. More amazing still, the new content is...

One day while I was in the eighth grade, I had brought the Crusader manual to read during study hall the next hour. A troublemaker friend of mine, in the stereotypical middle school early teens fashion, decided to mess with me by taking the manual from my hands and mockingly...

We return this week in full force, packing Chris, Kirill, and Keenan with our good friends Drew Smith, Evan Lahti, and Jane Pinckard, co-founder of the former The 1Up Show. In this comeback Episode 42, we touch upon several topics, including how PC gaming print medium will evolve in the...

The recipe for a satisfying single-player game is this: tell a memorable and engaging story while simultaneously integrating inventive and delectable gameplay mechanics. Simple, right? Well, okay, maybe it’s is simpler in theory than application. Even still, here’s to hoping more PC game developers decide to follow the formula rather...

While I feel it is important to note that this is a game studio’s first project, and as such it suffers from some amateur mistakes, the overall quality of the experience is outstanding. The game offers players a new, unique world to enter and take part in, and experience something...

At the end of the day, after the rumors are laid to rest, Far Cry 2 is a masterpiece of the art form. If you’ve succumbed to the popularity of the flame-fest and abandoned the game prematurely, I encourage you to take a trip back into Far Cry 2’s vibrant...

Welcome to part two of our series showcasing some of the best tunes ever composed for our little PC gaming ears. There is no set criteria for making the list, and no songs are ranked higher than others. We are simply just showing our love towards these great numbers heard...

Will no one rise up and fend against the deathly oppressed? If only a single contemporary game would gather the starving populous and rally the militia, we could once again storm the developer’s castle gates, demanding our PC shooters to be freed from the shackles of musical taciturnity. It only...

Portal is an abbreviated, yet concise game that shows just how video games can cross into the realm of interactive art. There’s an explicit and loving attention to nearly every detail of the game, and even though the graphics aren’t draped in glorious DirectX 10 hyperbole and there’s only...

If the standard game is the novel of the medium, games like Braid are the poems. Much like novels, which take several hours of combined reading time, the average well-paced game can flesh out a story, construct worlds, and sustain enjoyable play for about seven to ten hours. ...