Exclusive features
- Unreal Development Kit: We were all over the release of Epic Games' free version of Unreal Engine 3 with a feature on the UDK itself and interviews with the teams behind the first two free UDK games; Whizzle and The Ball.
- Reviews: We give our final verdicts for Borderlands, Torchlight, AI War: Fleet Command and Shattered Horizon
- Interviews: We had interviews with the CEO of the gaming PC maker Maingear and the lead designer behind Shattered Horizon.
- Serious Sam HD Preview: We go hands-on with a near final version of Croteam's FPS remake.
- Mac Monday: Our look at Mac-based games checks out two titles: Trapped: The Abduction and Harvest: Massive Encounter.
- Boot Disk: Our look at retro games checks out the classic space strategy title Master of Orion II.
- Big Ideas: Our regular look at game themes examines what people's perceptions are on beauty in a game.
- All You Need To Know: Our 411 feature gives you everything you need to know about Blizzard's upcoming Diablo III.
- Playing For Free: Our weekly look at online free-to-play games has our opinion on CrimeCraft which recently turned into a free-to-play game.
- Freeware Friday: Don't turn out the lights. This week's column on free PC games checks out the super-spooky Au Sable.
- Contest: You still have some time to win one of three Steam download codes for Shattered Horizon.
Downloads
- Unreal Development Kit: Make your own stand alone Unreal Engine 3 game with this newly released tool from Epic Games.
- UDK Games: Check out three stand alone free games made via the UDK. Whizzle, The Ball and Prometheus.
- Gratuitous Space Battles Demo: Check out this new space strategy-action game from indie developer Positech.
- Dark Salvation Demo: Go old school with this demo for the recently released indie first person shooter.
- Torchlight 1.12 patch-demo: If you got the recent action-RPG from Runic Games, this is the latest patch. It also acts as a free two hour time limit demo.
- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Skirmish DLC-Patch: This updates Codemasters' recent military shooter with not only a patch but four new multiplayer maps and two missions.
- Dragon Age: Origins patch: Update your copy of BioWare's new RPG to the latest version. Also the game's toolset is now available to download.
- Darkest of Days patch: Update to the latest version of the recent FPS from Phantom EFX. You can also download the game's level editor as well.
- Left For Dead Dead Before Dawn mod: This mod for the first Left 4 Dead game recreates the mall in the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.
- Sony Online to release Magic: The Gathering Tactics game for PC
- It's a Team Fortress 2-Left 4 Dead 2 crossover (sort of)
- Warren Spector tried (and failed) to buy the Deus Ex franchise
- Smoking Gun Interactive launches teaser comic for upcoming game
- Diagnosis Murder game announced (and no we are not kidding)
- Battlefield devs keep hammering on Modern Warfare 2's lack of dedicated servers
- REO Speedwagon casual game announced (again, we aren't joking)
- Issues with DLC downloads for Dragon Age: Origins reported
- Torchlight coming to retail stores in early January
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 beta coming to the PC in December
- StarCraft II targeted for first half 2010 release; still no word on beta launch date
- Direct2Drive won't sell Modern Warfare 2; indirectly blames Steam
- No dedicated servers for Rage multiplayer?
- Developer deliberately sent its PC game to pirate sites
