I finally carved out some more quality time for Torchlight this week. My one-line take: this game is nearly everything that any Diablo fan could have wanted. Still, let us first tackle the oliphaunt in the room – we would have liked multiplayer functionality. That said, it must be noted that Torchlight was developed from [...]
I heard about this new indy release while listening to the PC Gamer podcast on my commute this morning. After checking out the website, I must say I’m very eager to check it out. Torchlight appears to be a Diablo-style, loot-collecting action RPG, and the art design is a gorgeous-looking cartoonish, steampunk / fantasy hybrid. [...]
The past few evenings, I’ve been greatly enjoying a playthrough of the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II demo. DoW2 is a recent real time strategy game release for Windows machines only. Those following my Twitter feed will know that I’m a Mac-only cat these days. So, to give DoW2 a whirl, I installed Windows [...]
It’s funny that my gaming buddy Ken and I were just talking about this topic Tuesday night while playing WoW. Since building my new XP gaming rig, I’ve been listening to PC Gamer magazine’s exceptionally well-done podcast. This morning, they posted the first of several special installments covering E3. The biggest news, in my mind, [...]
I’ve been feeling the age of my Wintel PC for some time – at least as far as gaming horsepower goes. With Windows Vista supposedly just around the corner though, I’d made the decision to wait and see what was going to happen regarding emerging DirectX 10.0 hardware and the new OS system requirements before [...]