I read a recent article on CNN Money, originally from Fortune, that states that PC game sales are up a whopping 230% and console game sales are down 28%. For us members of the glorious PC gaming master race this is not new news - consoles have been really lagging behind the last couple of years compared to PC games.

This year has just started, and already I have gone from no games to play (after burning out on Skyrim) to having a small pile of games and Betas that I want to spend my time on.  Looking at the releases that are coming out in 2012 there are way more games than anyone of sound mind would try to play all in one year – including several blockbuster titles. Here is just a small sample (not an exhaustive list) of the games that are...

Remember back in the day when windows would detect hardware changes and assume that you were a dirty pirate and then use up one of you installations of XP?  Somebody at Ubisoft obviously didn’t learn any lessons watching this happen to Microsoft and the publisher is now doing the same with with games. This didn’t work for XP for several reasons, the biggest of which that bothered me was that due to Vista taking an absurdly...

After moving a hard disk running Ubuntu Linux to my old hardware and moving my Windows 7 installation to new hardware I recently purchased I really learned to hate Windows and how it deals with the drivers and hardware layer. I recently decided after getting a really good deal on an unopened i7 2600k to build a new PC.  My old rig was an E8400 Core2Duo which wasn’t new when I bought it so I was really due for an upgrade.  To...

I see the Infinity Ward logo, but I am uncertain how much of that team is left standing.  I am interested to see how this game holds up.  As long as they don’t do something stupid like stop the PC version from being able to use dedicated servers OR use shitty DRM I may just pick it up. For PC, of course. Related articles Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Trailer of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at) First trailer for Modern Warfare 3:...