THQ announced that Vigil Games apocalyptic action-adventure title will be coming to the PC this June. THQ vice president of global brand management, Travis Plane, said in a statement. “We hope PC gamers experience the same thrill and get the same level of satisfaction assuming the mantle of WAR as the console audience did.” Darksiders was released for the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 in January this year. Having finished the Xbox 360 version of the game this week, I think it’s safe to say that PC gamers [Read More]

Capcom released a new trailer showing off the multiplayer gameplay for their upcoming May 18th release of Lost Planet 2. The video shows four gamers who were invited by Capcom to preview the game battling a giant sand monster, fighting through slums, and capturing a moving train with a blast cannon and a helicopter. Lost Planet 2 had fallen off my radar until I caught this video on G4tv. I played the first Lost Planet when it was released but it never grabbed me enough to keep my interests. Five [Read More]

A man attending PAX East 2010 was caught attempting to steal the code for Breach, a new multiplayer shooter from Atomic Games. Justin D. May (20) was noticed hanging around the Breach booth by several Atomic Quality Assurance members with his laptop. When confronted, he ran off into the crowded show floor and was later apprehended by security. The suspect claimed that he was only trying to use Atomic Games network connection in an effort to gain access to the Internet. He later admitted to attempting to steal the game, [Read More]

Fallout: New Vegas has officially been announced as coming Fall 2010 to Games for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 this morning. Bethesda also released a new teaser trailer for the game that shows just enough to have us thinking, “more Fallout.” I spent a lot of time with Fallout 3 and I will admit that the official word the game is coming this Fall has me feeling a little excited. We don’t have a lot of details regarding Fallout: New Vegas yet, but Bethesda provides the following description of [Read More]

For five years I have sat on the side lines reading articles and listening to people talk about World of Warcraft and I finally decided I had heard enough. It was time to swallow the red pill and take the plunge down the rabbit hole. I sat at my PC and proceeded to install the free ten day trial and I didn’t look back. Plunge might not be the best word to describe my one hundred day affair with World of Warcraft, crashed is probably a more suitable term.
Over the [Read More]

Sid Meier has stated that he plans on taking advantage of the popular social networking service Facebook to support a new entry into the Civilization franchise. Refering to it as the Civilization Network, Meier states ” the game will allow you to join together with your friends to create the worlds most powerful, richest, smartest, or just plain coolest civilization.”More interesting, the game will exist in a fully persistent environment and be free for everyone. Meiers also said testers will be needed for a closed beta and the game is [Read More]

I recently completed several fresh installations of Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope edition (9.04) and I have found that getting media playback support working is a little easier than in previous versions of the Linux OS. If you are running an older version of Ubuntu or you want more information regarding media playback issues review my previous post here. If you are looking for the easiest way to getting full media support integrated into your installation, keep reading.DVD Playback – Installing the libdcdcss2 packages

Open a terminal screen and run “sudo apt-get install [Read More]

If you get a charge out of Fallout 3 but missed the first two games in the series its not too late to go back and check them out. Good Old Games has both Fallout and Fallout 2 available via download for $5.99 each. This small price tag will get you a DRM free copy of the game that has been patched to the latest official version. Unlike other digital download services you don’t just get a license to play the game. Buying games at GOG.com means you actually purchase [Read More]

I have been using Mozilla’s Firefox as my web browser since its first official release in 2004. One of the perks to using Firefox is the hundreds of extensions that can be added to the browser to enhance functionality. These extensions can improve productivity, enhance appearances, add security, and some just make my life easier. The following list is my version of a top 10 (even though I have 14) list of extensions that I couldn’t live without.
Brief – Brief a powerful yet simple tool for reading RSS feeds. [Read More]

I built a new PC three months ago and I decided to try running the popular Linux distro Ubuntu as my operating system. I started using the Intrepid Ibex (8.10) edition and upgraded to Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) a few days after its release. Moving from Windows to Linux is not as hard as it was a few years ago, but changing to a new operating system still requires a lot of research. The desktop environment is easy to work with and has been streamlined enough that it has a familiar [Read More]