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Aerial faith plates: a Portal 2 puzzle solution

Jaz McDougall — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:01:01 GMT

Valve just posted this video. It’s the puzzle you saw little clips of during the E3 videos – with Chell sailing through the air after a weighted storage cube for it to land on a button and open a door for her. This is the video of the entire puzzle culminating in that solution.

Elemental: War of Magic review

Tom Francis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:50:06 GMT

I need 1,300 gold immediately. The latest bit of military research I’ve unlocked lets me make teams of things, and one of the things I can make teams of is my killer hell dogs from hell. This gives the resulting unit six times their enormous health, six times their enormous damage, and for reasons that [...]

Elemental multiplayer delayed to next week

Tom Francis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:48:24 GMT

As I mentioned last week, Elemental: War of Magic is now stable. But the advertised multiplayer, which is listed as a feature on the game’s box, still isn’t working. At launch, Stardock said it would be ’switched on’ this week. Now, staffer Neil Banfield says on their forums that it’s been delayed again, to next [...]

PC Gamer has an Eve corp and we’re recruiting

Tim Edwards — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:58 GMT

In Space, no-one can hear you scream. Unless you scream over Teamspeak. That’s the good news. The better news is that PC Gamer is now active in Eve Online, and we have a small, but growing corps. We’re recruiting new and experienced players, via the PC Gamer forum. The corp is called PCG Enterprises, and [...]

5 lessons StarCraft 2 could learn from SupCom 2

Jaz McDougall — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:19:25 GMT

Before StarCraft came along, we all played Supreme Commander 2 at lunch. It’s a great game with a dedicated development team who are committed to firing out updates and improvements months after release, even as their company at large is working on a new title. I returned to it yesterday after the recent patch, and [...]

Gamble for guns in Call of Duty: Black Ops

PC Gamer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:53:33 GMT

It can’t be an easy job, building on what could happily be called the biggest gaming franchise currently in existence. But the team at Treyarch do have one big idea they’re adding to the Call of Duty formula. It’s simple, it’s time-tested, and it’s so obvious that you’ve got to wonder why it wasn’t in [...]

Shogun 2 screens: men politely killing each other

Jaz McDougall — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:53:22 GMT

“The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of click-and-dragging a box around them to select them all.” Sun Tzu said that. If only we’d known his views on the proper use of Attack-move, we’d all be better real time [...]

New Zealandiablo: hands-on with Path of Exile

Evan Lahti — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:19:06 GMT

Yesterday, three New Zealanders came to our office with a dungeon-crawler. This doesn’t usually happen. They let me play it. I liked it. Peer inside for impressions, screenshots and an exclusive classes and combat trailer that no one else on the internet has. Our introduction to Grinding Gear Games’ three-man envoy had a tinge of Flight [...]

Free games for the long weekend [Giveaway]

Josh Augustine — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:51:18 GMT

Those of us in the United States have a three-day weekend coming up, and this isn’t one of those “family” holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. This is boring ol’ Labor Day, which, for gamers, means that we’re looking at a solid 72 hours of prime gaming time. But what about the gamer whose gaming collection [...]

Need for Speed: World review

Tom Senior — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:28 GMT

A whole city is yours to explore in Need for Speed World, a game that claims to be a freeto- play racing MMO. Though, really, it’s only free up to level ten, and it’s not an MMO. For the first ten levels, it’s an open world arcade racer with a great sense of speed and [...]