Spore finally on Steam, SecureROM free!

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Will Wright fans rejoice! If you’ve been waiting to buy the long awaited ‘life, the universe, and everything’ simulator because of EA’s draconian DRM that limits the players to only three installs, your wait is now over.  Spore, along with other ‘hit’ EA titles have been released on Valve’s ever-growing Steam platform.   The [...]

10 Years of Half-Life feature – Mod DB

The fellas over at ModDB.com posted this video celebrating a decade of Half-Life mods. It’s pretty good, be sure to click on the link and give them a digg as well!

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The w0rd Podcast Ep.5: GDC 2008

In this episode Chris talks about his trip to the Game Developers Conference this year in San Fransisco. He also had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Dave Grossman, of Day of The Tentacle, and more recently Sam and Max fame. We talk about the new episode of Sam and Max, and some hints [...]

The Sims 3 TEASER SITE UP!

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Earlier this week, EA posted a teaser site for the next installment (not expansion mind you) of the highly addictive, ridiculously high selling Will Wright creation, The Sims. No real news on it right now, only that news IS coming on the 19th.
However, if you want more info sooner than that, you should [...]

The w0rd Podcast Ep. 4: Modtastic!

In this episode, Chris rolls solo and laments the end of Polaroid’s film manufacturing division, and nerds out on PC game mods. More notably, a Back To The Future mod for GTA: Vice City complete with Time Travel mechanics!
You can find that particular mod an MORE at http://moddb.com

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PC Version of Mass Effect to be Released May 6th

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Electronic Arts has given a more solid release date for the PC version of Mass Effect. Expect BioWare’s sci-fi action RPG to hit PCs May 6th. This isn’t going to be a quick and dirty port either. The developers are working on an improved inventory screen, an interface better suited for [...]

Announcing Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Big news for fans of D3Publisher’s RPG-Puzzle game mash-up, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. A sequel is on the way! This time around the game is sporting a sci-fi theme. Check after the break for more pictures.
I was able to meet with Tim Ramage, Senior Producer on the project and he [...]

COD4, Seriously…How Sweet is It?

Editor’s note: This article was written by our new contributer Dave Fasman aka Yonderllama.

Honestly though. How ridiculous is Call of Duty 4? The single player game was some of the most fun I’ve had playing through a fps since Half Life 2, and the online character development in the multi-player is some of [...]

PC version of MASS EFFECT to release in May

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The once Xbox 360 exclusive title, and cannon fodder for Fox News, Mass Effectis now heading to PC. Developer BioWare stated in a press release that the game will be updated to better suit the PC platform with such features as better graphics and keyboard and mouse controls.
I’m excited to see this game come [...]

HOLY CRAP! SPORE HAS RELEASE DATE!!

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After literally years of delays, Will Wright’s most ambitious project yet, the highly anticipated and extremely hyped “life, the universe, and everything” simulation Spore finally has a release date!
According to an annoucement earlier this week, we can expect to start creating our own custom universes come September 7th. This is for all planned platforms [...]