PC Games

It's almost here. You know what I'm talking about: probably the biggest game launch of the year. After four years of development, and countless video teases, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is almost out the door. Excited yet?

I confess to being more excited than I thought I would be. I never played the original DX - my head was too buried in wargaming at the time to pay attention to a sci-fi shooter - but after reading a bunch of DXHR-inspired articles about what made it so great, I can see it's enduring popularity. It certainly sounds likes

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Today, the Icelandic Chess Guild, one of Europe's largest chess playing organizations, has announced that Chess will be adopting a “free to play” model where membership fees will no longer be required.

“We just thought it was time,” commented ICG’s CEO Natan Magnusson. “Chess has been enjoying a fantastic explosion of interest from people around the world, so we thought it would only make sense to remove any barriers from people wanting to enjoy the greatest game ever.”

Shortly after this announcement, ICG’s popular online ...

It was an unwanted war. My peaceful TEC federation had been slowly expanding into the solar system - largely a meager collection of small asteroids, with only a handful of decent planets to be had - when out of the blue...er, green nebulosity - the Lexmak Empire (I'm not sure if they are the distant decedents of Lexmark) decided to raid my border colony at Garoda with a Marza capital vessel and a few escorts. This could not be tolerated as Garoda possessed the rarest of rare resources: Space Ponies (and if you think I am kidding...I'm not). Clearly,

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Well, I finally finished the book and here is what I think:

If you would ask me what I like most about EvE Online, I would say its seafaring aspects. Even though it might deal with spaceships, at its heart it is a game that has far more in common with The Old Man and the Sea than it does with Star Wars. EvE is all about the lone captain and his craft, out to score a big fish in a very large, very dangerous stellar ocean. Unfortunately, Tony Gonzales’ EVE: The Empyrean Age ultimately fails to capture that essence for more than a

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Today I did something that I haven't done in ages: I spent my evening playing Combat Mission. Oh CM, how I missed you! Don't ever go away for that long again!

I have to admit, I am surprised by how much I am warming to this game. I didn't expect that, quite frankly. I mean, even if BF could somehow re-create the magic of the classic original...would I want to return? Would I fall victim to 'been there, done that - time to move on' syndrome? I have to confess that the first few times I booted up the CMBN demo, I was not falling for

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