A few new sites launched…

Posted on July 12, 2008
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A few new websites have been launched, nothing major just some small niche sites. This first site is basically going to be an affiliate site for drug testing. I’m going to sell drug testing kits, urine masking agents, and that sort of thing. It’s a great keyword domain, we will see how it does.

16 Games For Windows Coming to a PC Near You

Posted on June 26, 2008
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I’m torn. Do I gallop around the room like a madman making wacky clucking cries of support for my favorite platform? Or do I poke fun at all the mediocre-sounding titles on this list of upcoming Games For Windows titles Microsoft just released in San Francisco today?

Here’s the list, per GamePro, of Microsoft’s GFW “games to be released in the coming months.”

Battlestations: Midway (Eidos)
Battlestations: Pacific (Eidos)
Borderlands (2K Games)
Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
Crysis Warhead (Crytek/EA)
Dawn of War 2 (THQ)
Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Sierra)
Quantum of Solace (Activision)
LEGO Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros.)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Video Game (Activision)
Mafia II (2K Games)
Project Origin Warner Bros.)
Red Faction: Guerilla (THQ)
Saints Row 2 (THQ)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection (Microsoft)

Battlestations: Midway, hmm, never heard of it. Let’s see. Didn’t this come out already in January 2007? Huh? It’s reportedly coming out for the Mac this summer, but the only new news for PC is actually number two on that list, Battlestations: Pacific, a sequel with twice as many missions and some kind of mechanism for interacting with island troops. Okay, so the PC version scored decently across a reasonably broad critical demographic. Looks like I need to give the original a gander?

You can read what Darren Gladstone and I had to quip about Borderlands and LEGO Batman in our 15 Hottest Games of Summer feature.

I’m pumped about Crysis Warhead, because aside from the original’s wasted, derivative latter third, I loved the stuffin’ out of Crysis. Only problem is, I’m moving to the UK, desktop-less by design, and stuck gaming on a Macbook Pro (Vista, Boot Camp). So unless Apple releases an updated slab of sexy aluminum hardware with something like a 9600M class GPU soon, I’m going to be running the game at 1024×768 with all the detail set to low (which anyone who’s played Crysis on “high” settings knows totally defeats the point).

Call of Duty: World at War? Let’s just hope it’s better than Treyarch’s fair-to-middling Call of Duty 3. After Infinity Ward’s awesome Call of Duty 4, I don’t think we’re allowed to expect anything less.

Warhammer may go down as the single best and worst translated RPG/wargaming franchise in computer game history. The Dawn of War games pretty much own all the “single best” slots. Considering Relic followed with the virtuosic Company of Heroes, I’d wager this could be the RTS of 2009.

Loved Devil May Cry 4 on the PS3 and 360, but I just can’t see this one selling well on PCs. Prove me wrong PC-fighter-fans, because nothing would make me happier.

The rest are all kind of ho-hum. Zoo Tycoon 2 and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa? Okay, for kids. Got it. But Quantum of Solace? I know it’s the 22nd Bond film, but come on, could they pick a goofier title? Oh, and it’s Treyarch again, a developer that’s still struggling to distinguish itself. The original Mafia did nothing for me after getting through the first couple missions, so Mafia 2 isn’t really ringing my bell. Project Origin’s the sequel to a game I thought was ridiculously overhyped by the gaming press (the better-than-average A.I. in that game was also incredibly inconsistent, and the story just plain hokey). Red Faction was never a great game, a problem that Red Faction 2 only exacerbated, so Red Faction: Guerilla has its work cut out for it. Saints Row was a decent enough GTA-wannabe, but Saints Row 2 has to stand in the wake of GTA IV. And Ghostbusters? Could be cool, but mostly just has me chewing my nails at this point.

Battlefield Bad Company

Posted on June 26, 2008
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The Battlefield Bad Company Site and Battlefield Bad Company Forum are now live!