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Far Cry 2 Patch Enables Hot, Sweaty Widescreen Action
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Far Cry 2 launched on PC sans widescreen. Considering everything else on the PC version was superior to the console iterations (quicksaves!), that was an odd move. Nevermind. It’s fixed now. More »
GTAIV On PC Got 32-Player Multiplayer
10:00AM Luke Plunkett | If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 7-8 times: Grand Theft Auto is best when enjoyed on the PC. The fact GTAIV will feature 32-player multiplayer only supports my position. More »
DirectX 11 Won’t Repeat The Windows-Exclusive Sins Of It’s Father
3:00PM Luke Plunkett | When Windows Vista shipped, it shipped alongside DirectX 10. DirectX 10 would only run with Vista. It wouldn’t run with the faster, more stable, more popular Windows XP. This made those running games on XP unhappy. Well, fast forward a few years, and the next release of a Windows OS – Windows 7 – won’t be repeating the same mistake. Microsoft’s Product Marketing Manager Windows, Ben Basaric, has gone on record saying that while Windows 7 will be shipping with DX11 support (which will add features like allowing a graphics processor to process more than just graphics), it will also run on Windows Vista. So no need to go upgrading. Well…unless you’re one of millions still using XP… DirectX 11 confirmed for Windows 7 – Microsoft revised statement [PCGH, via Voodoo Extreme] More »
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PC Sales Charts
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | The NPD sales charts are traditionally a little…sketchy when it comes to PC sales. But for the week ending November 1, they look right on the money, with Fallout 3 taking not just the top spot, but 3rd and 9th spot as well with the two collectors editions. With the game still charting well on both Steam and Direct2Drive, you can easily see where a lot of those 4.7 million shifted copies went. More »
Hands-Free Gaming Comes To The PC (And Looks Awful)
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Above, a demonstration by Mgestyk Technologies, showing off their webcam-based gesture control system on a bunch of games like Far Cry and Halo. While we admire the effort, all we’re left thinking after watching this is: just because you can do something, doesn’t always mean you should. Laggy controls that force you to use strange hand gestures won’t be replacing WASD and a mouse just yet. More »
PC Sales Charts (Now With Added Direct2Drive)
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | The tinkering continues! The official NPD charts were interesting, but fundamentally flawed. So we added Steam’s charts as well. Steam painted a much clearer picture of the actual purchasing habits of PC users, but was still incomplete, because we’d left off the other major purveyor of digital distribution, Direct2Drive. So this week, they’re included as well, giving us not one, not two, but three PC sales charts. If you can’t get a clear idea of what’s been selling on the PC after that, well, you’re probably asking too much of your sales charts. More »
Chinese MMO Chi Bi Heading to Japan
2:30AM Maggie Greene | I’ve been watching the movements of Beijing Perfect World with some interest; in comparison to some of the up and coming companies, they’ve certainly kept a reasonably low profile lately. Until, of course, they launched the ‘international’ version of their original MMO, Perfect World. Now they’re eying another go with the Japanese market, bringing their Chi Bi (’Red Cliff’) MMO to Romance of the Three Kingdoms-mad gamers. I’ve heard tell Perfect World will be releasing another of their games to the US market in the near future, and we can only hope that it’s Red Cliff — I’m all about some classical Chinese fiction renovated for a 21st century audience. The Three Kingdoms gaming phenomenon is fascinating to me, and one that I hope to write on formally at some point in the not-too-distant future. Press release after the jump. More »
Witcher Sells A Million
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Here’s your PC gaming good news story for the day: CD Projekt Red have announced today that, since the game was first released in 2007, The Witcher has sold over a million copies. That’s including both versions of the game, the original as well as the “Enhanced Edition”. For a traditional PC RPG, made by an obscure Eastern European developer with a silly name, those are great, great numbers. Congrats! The Witcher Sells One Million Copies In A Year [Gamasutra] More »
The Best And Worst Of Widescreen Gaming On The PC
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | While it’s fairly common these days for console games (Wii excepted) to launch with widescreen/16:9 support, PC games aren’t so fortunate. Even in 2008, with widescreen monitors becoming so popular that even the Xbox 360 natively supports many of their resolutions, a ton of PC games don’t ship with proper widescreen support. Widescreen Gaming Forum to the rescue!. If there’s a workaround, you’ll find it there. If there’s complaining to be had, it’ll start there. So it’s great seeing that the site have just held their first “Widescreen Gaming Awards”, to both honour and shame the best and worst in supporting widescreen gaming on the PC. More »
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