The 10 biggest PC stories from E3 2009

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, attracts tens of thousands of hardcore gamers and industry figures to Los Angeles each June.

It’s the biggest show of the year, where Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo deliver keynote presentations, and, even though it’s easy to get caught up in Project Natal and the PSP Go, plenty of exciting PC news has emerged from E3.

Here, we’ve sifted through the dodgy RTS titles and lazy console ports to pick out the most important PC gaming stories to emerge from the three-day conference, so take a look at our top stories and let us know what you think.

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Online games? I’m too busy with all this porn

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

If you’ve seen the Emmy Award-winning South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft”, you’ll have a pretty good idea how the mainstream media predominantly portrays online gamers.

From 21-hour daily sessions hunting boars just to level up; through acne, obesity and a descent into the use of “noob” and “pwned” in everyday, impenetrable conversation; to Cartman relieving himself at his PC into a bedpan held by his mother, it plays on pretty much every preconceived idea of online gamers. And it’s very, very funny.

Of course, this stereotype doesn’t quite hold up when you look at the sheer size of the subscriber base of games like World of Warcraft. (more…)