Online gamers, bow before the king. According to developer Blizzard, the recently released World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King sold over 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the single fastest selling PC game in history.
Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone...
I'll say this for Rockstar - they do like a controversy. Usually, though, they go in for cool controversies like sexy mini games or the sensationalised depiction of car crime and bullying.Lame kerfuffles about copy protection schemes just seem a bit off-message, somehow. C'mon chaps, you'll not get many tabloid headlines with this nonsense!
Are we getting a bit sick of 3D graphics? When 3D was first invented, back in the early cretaceous period, the first-person shooter, the flight sim and the RPG all got better. But platform games got worse...
We've been waiting for a while to hear about the new multiplayer features that Rockstar Games has been promoting for the upcoming PC port of Grand Theft Auto IV. Today, via last minute previews with certain game media outlets, we finally found out that the PC version will support 32 players in the game's various online multiplayer modes.
ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG. Nipper, a Counterstrike map-hacker, has devised an incredibly detailed reproduction of the Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World. Nipper's packed a jaw-dropping amount of detail into the map, even down to various behind-the-scenes sections. Link to the map download in the article.
Out of more than 11 million players worldwide, some of these people have got to be famous. So here, in no particular order, is a top ten list of Warcraft-playing celebrities.
In other words, she reveals how to woo on WOW ...
Making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. Unbelievable.
Browse Digg and any other website while playing your PC video games!
Valve seems dedicated to the cause of multiplayer gaming on the PC. Sure, you can get Left 4 Dead on the 360, and I'm sure many people will enjoy it, but the best way to play this game is with a mouse and a keyboard, headphones on, screaming at your team mates that you're surrounded and need back up.
Thanks to the Viking warriors at Gamereactor, we have our first good look at how Deus Ex 3 is shaping up.
Once I realized Apple's new MacBook Pros were available with a 2.8GHz processor upgrade option, I couldn't resist, so I mortgaged my house and bought one. This, despite vocal reservations about the NVIDIA 9600M GT video processor.
PETA has released a rather well-done downloadable videogame parody of the Cooking Mama series usually found on Nintendo game consoles. The game includes such activities as plucking feathers and removing the internal organs from a dead turkey.
Not much of a surprise this is a possibility, the two games do use the same game after all. But Left 4 Dead hasn't even launched and someone's already modding it (probably the demo, anyway.) Here's nine minutes — reloading! — of Left 4 Dead gunplay on TF2's Dustbowl map (slightly customized). Warning: loud volume.
Does Call of Duty: World at War prove the critics wrong and show that Treyarch can do just as great a job with the franchise as Infinity Ward, or is it just another World War II game that does nothing to make its mark? Read on for the official review ...
Kotaku reader Srider spied something interesting during his playthrough of the Left 4 Dead demo, amusingly enough on the back of an in-game box of "Chocobites" cereal. Seen in the first apartment in the game's first campaign, and wherever cereal is eaten in Left 4 Dead, the back of the box says collect all 10 TF2 action figures.