To many, Valve is one of the best video game companies in the world. They make incredible games and have gave way to some of the most fascinating and memorable games in the history of gaming. Games such as the original Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and the Portal franchise have acted as shining examples as to how a story can be told within a game and free of cutscenes. I remember the first time I played [...]

When I was into Team Fortress 2, most of the time I played as a Spy, and after that… as Pyro. It came to me as enlightenment when I noticed that best way to check if the player is a masked spy or not… is to burn him a little bit and see what happens. Today TF team released a new video from their “Meet the…” series, and this one is quite… catchy to say [...]

In case your PC has been collecting dust as of late, you’ve likely noticed a huge influx of free to play titles popping up within the PC gaming sphere. Titles like Super Monday Night Combat and Blacklight: Retribution have made an arguably larger splash than normal simply because of their free to play features. The advantages of the “freemium” model have been clearly demonstrated time and time again, yet some gamers feel slighted by the [...]

Although the PC gaming community resembles an elitist cult at some times, their primary sin is a general sense of reluctance to accept anything that challenges what they’ve come to expect from their gaming experiences. This general attitude has pervaded into the market strategy for many developers, resulting in a vast majority of games that are perfectly capable of running on most Macintosh computers being developed exclusively for the PC. Why are PC gamers so [...]