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OK, the Steam Summer Sale is starting. Lewis B doesn’t believe me, but it’s happening. How do we know? Valve have just fired the first shots. Valve Collection 82% off? Rockstar Collection 71% off? It begins. I’m delirious with excitement. This is obviously my first Steam sale as a fully fledged member of the PC …

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina left a trail of destruction and flood waters across New Orleans and the surrounding area, causing just short of 2,000 deaths, billions of dollars of damage and a clean up operation that continues to this day. Six years later and many parts of New Orleans remain in disrepair, standing …

Over the last couple of months I’ve been researching the new computer I’ve been wanting for years and years, partly explaining my absence around here lately. You hear that Mat C? Research. Y’know, legwork, toil, hardship. None of your blatant lifting nonsense. Anyway, the other week after finalising my build, ordering the parts and receiving …

Bloomin ‘eck, who turned up the thermostat? Britain is currently basking in the glory of a bit of a heat wave, with temperatures reaching as high as 30 degrees in some parts of the country. We’ve had nothing but blue skies and sweaty foreheads for two full days now and according to those fine weathermen …

I’ve not posted anything about Star Wars The Old Republic in a while.  There is a reason for that and it’s mostly because it still doesn’t look any better.  For a game that has reportedly had several hundred million spent on it, I would have thought Bioware would have been able to hire an animator …

Demonstrating that while they oppose women and most of the Bill of Rights, the Justices of the Supreme Court retain some margin of respect for the First Amendment, the highest court in the United States has upheld the Ninth District ruling in Schwarzenegger Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association. It is officially Not Constitutional to penalize …

No one knows exactly when the United States Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association, the first case on game censorship to reach the highest court in the U.S., but everyone is talking, and the talk is… Monday. A favorable ruling on this case will indicate – nationally – that punishing …

It has been a busy few hours over on the ArenaNet blog, as the first details of Guild Wars 2′s underwater combat have begun to surface (sorry), as well as some details of the game’s dungeons.  Unlike other MMOGs, it seems ArenaNet want the underwater elements of Guild Wars 2 be as prominent as that …

Mario Marathon has become a delightful yearly event, and the fourth installment is running as I type! A team of generous friends will play Mario games all nonstop, all weekend, to raise donations for Child’s Play Charity, which collects cash and toy donations for children’s hospitals around the world. It’s most fun at, like, 3:20 …

It may seem odd to some that there are still any multiplatform games that don’t play better on PC as we sit here in 2011, but this is a reality that beleaguered football fans have had to endure since the dawn of the current generation. Having provided PC gamers with a sub standard experience for …