It's all about the Benjamins for PhysX Developers (Overclockers Club)
If you've been keeping up with PC games as of late, there's no doubt you've noticed that more and more of them support Nvidia's PhysX technology. There's also no doubt that you've read or even experienced that some of these games make much better use of the technology than others. Well if what Richard Huddy says is true , there might be a reason why. Huddy is AMD’s senior manager of developer ...
Women in Gaming: Female PC Players Will Soon Pwn You (Fast Company Magazine)
In a recent report, M2 Research studied female demographics in gaming. The takeaway? Facebook game developers and casual browser game publishers have done what the big three gaming companies and their consoles could never do--bring women to gaming. M2 estimates that 140 million men play PC games, and 130 million women. This nearly 50-50 split is not even approached by the gaming consoles or ...
This Week In PC Games: March 8-14 (Big Download Blog)
Filed under: Action , RTS , Strategy , Meta BD , Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II , Assassin's Creed 2 We continue through a very busy March release time table with a stand alone expansion to a hit 2009 RTS game, the long awaited PC port of an open world adventure game and more. In addition to the titles listed below, Atari will release a retail version of Telltale Games' second "season" of its Sam ...
PC gaming service Steam ported to Mac, lets users buy titles on both platforms at no extra cost (BetaNews)
Valve Corporation's Steam is the leading digital distribution channel for PC games. With over 1,000 titles available for purchase, an integrated social network and database of open game servers, Steam has attracted more than 25 million users since launching in 2003.
Ubisoft's DRM Servers Attacked, Crashed (Gamasutra)
Ubisoft's controversial DRM servers were attacked and brought down over the weekend, preventing some Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 owners in Europe from playing their PC games. The publisher's new online authentication policy seeks to prevent pirates from playing its PC releases by requiring users to stay connected to its DRM servers while playing its games. Assassin's Creed II, Silent ...
About Ubisoft and EA's 'Always Online' PC Games Requirement (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Hostile, bullheaded, mercenary, uncreative, all words that spring to mind when considering Ubisoft and EA's new "always on" PC games policies for upcoming single-player games like Assassin's Creed 2, Silent Hunter 5, and Command & Conquer 4.
News: Ubisoft DRM was "attacked" at weekend (Eurogamer)
"95 per cent of players were not affected." Ubisoft has blamed problems with its controversial digital rights management solution for PC games on outside attacks. The publisher told Eurogamer that very few players were unable to access PC versions of Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 yesterday due to the outage, but apologised to those who did experience problems. "Ubisoft would like to ...
Settlers, torpedoes and assassins are highlights of March's PC games (EARTHtimes.org)
Hamburg - Computer gamers are likely to respond to March's new products in one of two ways: either with a Finally! or a yawn and a This again? That's because most of March's new games are sequels to existing franchises. The Settlers, for example, ...
The Best of Big Download: March 1-7 (Big Download Blog)
Filed under: Meta BD It's been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games and GDC hasn't even started yet:. Let's check out what's been happening in the last seven days: Exclusive features Star Trek Online review : We give our final verdict to Cryptic's latest MMO effort. Boot Disk : Our retro games feature checks out Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 . All You Need To Know : We give you ...
About Ubisoft and EA's 'Always Online' PC Games Requirement (PC World)
Game publishers Ubisoft and EA are about to release several single-player PC games that require a 'permanent internet connection' to play.