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Portal: Prelude Preview
moddb.com — Make no mistake, after all the hype this mod is no lie.More… (PC Games)
TF2 Meets Saving Private Ryan
wegame.com — The Omaha Beach Scene from Saving Private Ryan with Team Fortress 2 voice-overs.More… (PC Games)
Drivers may get insurance breaks for playing computer games
cnn.com — Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games. More… (PC Games)
EA Downplays Spore’s DRM Triggered Piracy Record
torrentfreak.com — Spore, love it or loathe it, Will Wright’s new game has stayed in the news in the way his previous games have never managed. The game could also bring about big changes in both DRM and copyright law, as the debate heats up over it’s DRM. While EA puts a brave face on things, as a class action suit is filed.More… (PC Games)
The 32 Best PC Games
gamepro.com — Finishing off our popular series, here are GamePro's 32 picks for today's finest games on gaming's oldest platform: the PC! It's the granddaddy of all consoles. It defines gaming culture. We use our computers to socialize, to communicate, to read news and troll forums. We e-mail, we IM, and despite the systems in our living rooms, a good many of...More… (PC Games)
Noooooo! EA cans Command & Conquer FPS
joystiq.com — According to EA's Mike Verdu, "The game had fundamental design challenges from the start. We fought to correct the issues, but we were not successful; the game just isn't coming together well enough to meet our own quality expectations as well as those of our consumers."More… (PC Games)
Valve hosting Source engine mods beginning next week
joystiq.com — Valve announced that starting next week, Steam will begin hosting certain user-created mods of Source engine titles such as Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2.More… (PC Games)
Grand Theft Auto IV Could Save Games for Windows
blog.wired.com — The PC -- once the gold standard for videogaming enthusiasts -- has fallen from grace. As each successive console generation provides gamers with options that are more affordable and (most importantly) provide a simpler, pick-up-and-play experience, game developers are encountering fewer reasons to support the beleaguered PC platform.More… (PC Games)
Holy Crap! Spore Created StarCraft Is Amazing
kotaku.com — Check out these images of in-Spore created Starcraft Terran faction buildings and vehicles. Check out the Vulture, Siege Tank, Goliath, Wraith and Battlecruiser! The attention to detail is astounding. More… (PC Games)
EA skirts first-sale doctrine with limits on resale of Spore
arstechnica.com — EA's much-reviled Spore DRM isn't just to stop pirates; it also limits used copies of the game. We explore the EULA to see if this is infringing on your rights as a consumer.More… (PC Games)
EA sued over Spore DRM
latimesblogs.latimes.com — Despite Electronic Arts' good-faith effort last week to relax copyright restrictions in Spore, critics of the game's digital rights management have been vehement, bringing their protests to Amazon.com reviews, message boards, blogs and now federal court. The law firm handling it is the same one that was behind the Sony rootkit case.More… (PC Games)
EA Responds To Spore Forum Banning Concerns
kotaku.com — When Spore owners were silenced by forum moderation staff for posting one too many SecuROM/DRM complaints on the game's official message boards, the internet-going masses were worked up into a lather. "Censorship!" they cried. "Business practices to which I don't agree with!" they shouted. EA responds to these allegations.More… (PC Games)
Game over for graphics cards?
techradar.com — Spare a thought for AMD and NVIDIA. They have been happily smacking each other upside the head for a decade. But at least they have been doing so safe in the knowledge that their GPUs are distinct from – and inherently superior in graphics processing terms – to CPUs.More… (PC Games)
Confirmed: Online Gamers 'Are Not Unhealthy'
news.bbc.co.uk — More than 7,000 players of the online game EverQuest II were quizzed about their health by scientists. They found gamers' body mass index (BMI) tended to be lower than the US average - with many taking "proper" exercise more than once a week. But New Scientist magazine reports that depression was more common in gamers.More… (PC Games)
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