Back on the Scene

Today is a very special day. It may yet live in infamy my friends. Today officially marks the beginning of my return to PC gaming. It's taken many years, but a man's will can only hold out for so long.

I've been a PC gamer at heart since the first time I played Wolfenstein on my cousin's pc many years ago. Unfortunately, sometime around the start of this console generation I realized that constantly upgrading PC hardware to play the latest games is about as worthwhile as wiping your ass with wads of money then flushing them down the toilet.

I couldn't bring myself to replace my video card for the 20th time, or update my drivers, defrag my hard drive and sacrifice a goat to the pagan gods just to make games work on the damn thing. I didn't have the time, the energy or the money to continue with it. And people wonder why console games sell so much better these days.

So what brought me back? Honestly I don't really know. It seems that finally PC games are looking good enough compared to consoles that it's worth the frustration of trying to get them to work properly. I've got some money to blow and there are some great looking titles on the horizon. Not to mention Steve and Jaison both got new PCs. Thanks, assholes.

So today I ordered a bunch of parts I don't really understand off NCIX.com and am praying to the pagan gods that when the box shows up on my doorstep next week I am able to assemble them into some sort of PC shaped object. I already bought two sacrificial goats. You can't leave these things to chance.

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Another Hawken Trailer

More Hawken Videos

Just take my god damn money already you bastards! Go on take all of it!

Jonah's Arcade

Ever wish there was a comedy show on TV based on videogames... No, well neither did Comedy Central. This is the pilot they passed on for Jonah's Arcade. It's basically Tosh.0 for videogames, if Tosh.0 was funny HaHa and not funny sad.

Space Marine Demo is Out

Are you a BIG MAN with BIG GUTS?! Do you like to RIP and TEAR?! Then you my manly friend need to download the HELL out of the Space Marine demo on your MANLY console of choice!

KILL ORKS with your BIG GUNS. Kill them ALL KINDS OF DEAD!! YEAH! Chainsaw swords. Rocket launchers. The FURY of a thousand DEATHS!! That is what I am talking about!! HERE COMES THE NIGHT TRAIN CHOO CHOO CHA BOOGIE

Xbox Indie Games Summer Uprising

With considerably less fanfare than the Summer of Arcade, this week kicked off the start of the Indie Games Summer Uprising on the Live marketplace.

Indie games on Live have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. They're cheap, they're amusing and some of them are actually really good. If you have a few extra points kicking around, they're a great way to piss away an afternoon when you should be doing more important things like bathing the dog.

Colonial Marines Gameplay

Finally some gameplay from the upcoming Aliens game. Looks awesome so far. Each day my boner for this game becomes more powerful!

If I have one complaint though it's that every Aliens related game has to copy the movies down to a T. You've gotta have marines acting cool, you gotta have a power loader fighting aliens, you have to have a showdown with the queen. It's like, Jesus christ guys god forbid you try to bring anything new to the franchise.