Fallout 3 uses SecuROM DRM technology, but Bethesda has claimed that it isn’t as draconian as some other games which use the system such as BioShock, Mass Effect PC and Far Cry 2. While the game does use SecuROM DRM, Bethesda claims that it does so in a way that doesn’t infringe on the rights [...]
Fallout 3 Publisher: Bethesda Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Here’s a quick and easy history lesson. Once upon a time, there was a company called Interplay that made some of the best computer games ever. One of its most well known franchises was the Fallout series, which was an isometric RPG set in a [...]
Jack Thompson, the Miami attorney who was a constant thorn in the side of many games developers, has now been officially disbarred following a recommendation and investigation from Judge Dava Tunis this September. Thompson had become notorious among the games community for his fight against violence in computer games and the numerous connections he put [...]
Treyarch announced this weekend that the new Call of Duty game, World at War, would include a controversial new co-op mode that will be unlockable after the singleplayer campaign is complete. The game mode will be a survival variant that features up to four players who must work together to survive continuing waves of Nazi [...]
Far Cry 2 Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Here’s the funny thing about Far Cry; it was never all that great a game in all honesty, but that somehow ended up getting forgotten and it was the console expansions that got all the flak. Wow, I know – controversial, eh? It’s true though. Far [...]
Dead Space Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 There’s an on-going discussion in the more pretentious corners of the Internet, where floppy-fringed journalists like myself are to be found constantly waging over one argument; are computer games an art form? I say yes, based on nought but the idea that they are a creative process [...]
Microsoft has released a new hotfix for multi-GPU users who, in certain scenarios, are encountering poorer-than-expected performance games and benchmarks under Windows Vista. The software giant says that the issue occurs when games and benchmarks use multiple display adapters in a Linked Display Adapter (LDA) configuration. Apparently, a small scheduling latency on a new Direct [...]