Bad Company 2 Teething Problems
There’s this shiny new shooter game thingy, Battlefield Bad Company 2. It’s a really nice game and does oh so many things right. This, however, is not a game review. It is merely a rant about how bad the game’s launch goes.
There are quite a few problems that, for me, make it nearly impossible to [...]
Ubisoft DRM Already Cracked
As expected, there has been a zero-day exploit for Ubisoft’s new shiny DRM (see my last post), in the newly released game Silent Hunter 5.
Well, it was not totally zero-day, since it took slightly more than 24 hours, apparently. Still, indeed it is now the case that the only ones suffering from the whole “you [...]
PC: The Platform with Rampant DRM
Yeah, it’s horrible. DRM is rampant on the PC.
Most recent example: Ubisoft. There is a good article on Rock Paper Shotgun about this. What they have announced to do is the following: With every future Ubisoft game, whether it’s single player or multiplayer, online or offline, boxed with a CD or delivered via download, you [...]
Upcoming Indie Game: Natural Selection 2
I just saw that Natural Selection gets a sequel: Natural Selection 2. A hybrid of first-person shooty stuff and real-time strategy game — reminescent of good old Sacrifice (a very underrated gem), at least as far as I can tell.
Now this alone might not have been news-worthy, particularly since it’ll take some more time before [...]
Left 4 Dead 2, and Nerd Rage
Wow, this is amazing. I am trying to wrap my head around what’s going on here. One thing is obvious: Valve has us spoiled.
Left 4 Dead 2
First things first, Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 at the E3. The game will have plenty of new things over the first:
A new and improved AI Director 2.0 [...]
Games I Didn’t Blog About
This blog has been incredibly quiet lately – but now that I’m done with the diploma thesis (yay), I can come back and start blogging semi-regularly again. First though, I will make catchup posts until I feel I caught up.
First, games. There were plenty of new games I tried. Let’s have itsy bitsy tiny mini-reviews [...]
Shooter News (TF2, L4D, QL)
I said that I’d post about TF2, L4D and QL, so here goes. They all have share-worthy news.
Left 4 Dead Survival Pack
Left 4 Dead did get a new update a couple of weeks back, which improved the balance a bit. I liked the Smoker changes, but other than that, it was a bit less spectacular [...]
Unreal Tournament 3 Titan Pack
Unreal Tournament 3 lives! If you don’t believe it, just look at this week’s Steam charts — it got to number 3. The recent free UT3 weekend was such a success that for some, it was a failure; the Steam servers were hammered and many didn’t get to finish downloading the game in the first [...]
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