This seems like it could be kind of important for the PC gaming community. Today, Valve helped deploy 5 Free to Play titles through its Steam distribution service, something that previously could not be done because the infrastructure to support microtransactions for games outside of the ones they manage directly …

Some bits of this conference sort of passed over me. Since I don’t really watch (or understand, or care about) sports for the most part, I didn’t get the import of EA Sports’ portion of it. Just keep that in mind

However, there was a decent mix of stuff that …

Have any of you played Desktop Dungeons? If you haven’t, it’s really worth a look. Its a freeware dungeon crawling RPG for PC and Mac that can be played in about 15 minutes a session. It stands as a testament to good design–the short game time does not detract from …

Hi. I’m Syn, and this is my corner. I want to talk about games. To be more exact, with each of these articles, I would like to take a specific title and use it as a point of analysis of its underlying ideas or mechanics, almost as if it were …

I have something coming down the pipeline on Brink (Spoiler: Its not great, but I’m enjoying it probably more than I should). That said, Splash Damage and Bethesda released the first major update for the game. This patch attempts to alleviate some of the lag players have been feeling (particularly …

I got a chance to play FireFall at PAX East back in March. It feels extremely tight and polished already, and was tons of fun (and this is coming from the one who is stricken with perpetual shooter fatigue). Granted, I only was able to get my hands on the …

In an interesting, albeit spoiler-ridden interview with key members of Portal 2′s design team at Fast Company, Valve’s VP of marketing Doug Lombardi announces the future announcement of DLC for the game. At the moment, hard details are scarce though as many of you probably know, there is plenty of …

It has been a fairly slow news week, but this little tidbit caught my eye. Do you remember Hydrophobia? Probably not, because it was kind of terrible by all accounts (though had a really neat water physics engine, go figure). Anyways, the game’s developer/publisher Dark Energy is re-releasing a “definitive” …

Hi-Rez is looking to jump on the Hero Arena bandwagon with their newly announced SMITE. The company, probably best known for their shooter/MMO hybrid Global Agenda (a game that doesn’t really have the tactility of a shooter, nor the depth of an MMO) released the announcement this morning, claiming that …

The original Portal basically caught everyone who played it completely off guard. It was the product of Valve Software’s time-honored tradition of benevolently devouring smaller companies and teams that they think are being unique or creative. Conceptually beginning as a student project being made at DigiPen, the game (and its …