windows
PC

Bastion Now Available On Steam

Technically it’ll unlock in three hours, but if you want to play (the excellent) Bastion on your Windows PC, you’ll be able to buy it for $US15 today. [SteamPowered.com]

July 28, 2011
PC

Remembering The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of MS-DOS

If you think messing around with the user-interface of a modern console, or even a modern iteration of Windows is hard, spare a thought for anyone involved in PC gaming during the 1980s and early ’90s.

July 6, 2011
PC

A Beautiful New Perspective On Grand Theft Auto’s Liberty City

Thanks to PC mods, people can still impress us with the beauty of 2008′s Grand Theft Auto IV. Lighting and weather effects can go a long, long way in making Rockstar Games’ crime epic very, very pretty. It’s even prettier as a postcard.

July 1, 2011
Xbox

Rumour: Crysis Bound For Xbox 360?

Today, the South Korea GRB (Game Rating Board) apparently approved Crysis for the Xbox 360. Crysis has not been released on the Xbox 360. It’s a Windows-only title.

June 17, 2011
PC

Brain Workshop Is A Brain-Training App That Might Actually Make You A Little Bit Smarter

Windows/Mac/Linux: Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that it may actually succeed in making its players a little bit smarter.

June 7, 2011
Xbox

These Are The New Xbox Live Television Features

Let’s face it: the television remote is so yesterday. As anticipated, Xbox Live’s Marc Whitten has taken the stage at Microsoft’s keynote address to describe and promote some of the features we can expect from the company’s new Xbox Live TV functionality.

June 3, 2011
PC

Windows 8 And Its Incredibly Cool New Touch Interface

So, this is the new Start screen for Windows 8. It looks a lot like Windows Phone Live Tiles. And hey, that looks like an app store.

May 20, 2011
PC

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Coming To PC In June

Already released on Xbox 360, the Escalation add-on for Call of Duty: Black Ops makes its next stop on PC. Activision confirmed the release date for Escalation—four new maps and the “Call of the Dead” mode—for June 2.

May 14, 2011
PC

Somewhere Between Super Metroid And Minecraft Lies Terraria

Forgive the crude comparisons to those two beloved games, for neither is perfectly adequate at describing what the upcoming Terraria is all about. Perhaps because Terraria looks nuts, an amalgam of exploration, world-building, action and adventure.

April 26, 2011
PC

Goodbye, Blue Screen Of Death!

It’s been a hallmark of PC gaming (and, well, PC using) for years now: when Windows really does something wrong, users have been greeted by the dreaded “blue screen of death”, crashing their system. No more!

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