Maximum PC

Login | Join

Login with Facebook
  • Future Publishing
  • A Future Site  ▼
    • Home
    • Build a PC

      Build a PC Featured Content

      Build a PC: Recommended Builds (May 2013)Build a PC: Recommended Builds (May 2013)
      CES 2013: AMD Talks Up Surround Computing Strategy
      Operation Upgrade: How We Rebuilt Three Old PCs, Part By Part
      Build It: How to Build a Kick-Ass Ivy Bridge Gaming PC, Step by Step
      Blueprints: The Maximum PC Recommended Builds - June 2012

      All Build a PC Articles

    • Windows
      • Windows Home
      • How-Tos
      • Tips
      • Windows 7
      • Windows 8
      • Windows Phone 7
      • Windows Live Essentials 2011

      Windows RSS

      Windows Featured Content

      Windows 8 ReviewWindows 8 Review
      Microsoft Announces Xbox One Console
      20 Awesome Screensavers
      Best Windows 8 Apps
      Windows 8 Home Server Guide

      All Windows Articles

    • Best of the Best
    • Hardware
      • Hardware Home
      • CPU
      • Memory
      • Video Cards
      • Cases
      • Cooling
      • Displays
      • Motherboards
      • Reviews

      Hardware RSS

      Hardware Featured Content

      Build a PC: Recommended Builds (May 2013)Build a PC: Recommended Builds (May 2013)
      Commemorating the Best PC Hardware
      Microsoft Announces Xbox One Console
      7 Unsung Heroes of the PC Universe
      Getting Loco with Video Cards

      All Hardware Articles

    • Software
      • Software Home
      • News
      • Reviews
      • Anti-Virus
      • Software How-Tos

      Software RSS

      Software Featured Content

      Nvidia E3 2013 HighlightsNvidia E3 2013 Highlights
      Virus Protection Guide
      Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Beta Impressions
      Spotify vs. Xbox Music
      XBMC vs. Plex

      All Software Articles

    • Gaming
      • Gaming Home
      • Reviews
      • Hardware
      • Software
      • Gaming PCs
      • Bioshock

      Gaming RSS

      Gaming Featured Content

      Razer Edge Unboxing (Video)Razer Edge Unboxing (Video)
      CES 2013: Nvidia Shield and Grid Impressions [Video]
      Nvidia at CES 2013: Project Shield Console, Tegra 4, and Onlive Style Cloud Gaming
      Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Review
      The 10 Best PC Game Trailers from E3 2012

      All Gaming Articles

    • Subscribe to the Magazine
      magazine images

      Subscribe to MaximumPC and save up to 84%!

      Your choice of Print or Digital.

      • Subscribe Now
      • Give a gift
      • Renew Now
    • Shop
    • News
    • Reviews
    • Features
    • How Tos
    • Forums
    • Podcast
    • Videos
    • PDF Archives
    • Maximum Tech

    Reviews » Games

    avatar

    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review

    Posted 01/23/2012 at 2:05pm | by Nathan Edwards
    15
    Comments

    Skyrim is torn by civil war: A weakened Empire struggles to retain control of the province, while rebel Nords vie for self-determination. Dragons have returned after centuries, and nobody knows why. Undead infest the crypts, cairns, and barrows, and more dangerous things haunt deep Dwarven ruins. Elsewhere, ordinary people are living their lives. Guilds struggle to reclaim past glory, shopkeepers try to scrape by, lovers quarrel, and everyone could use your help. Time to make your mark on the world.

    » Read More
    avatar

    Battlefield 3 Review

    Posted 01/17/2012 at 5:56pm | by Dan Scharff
    40
    Comments

    There is a creature in Greek mythology known as the Chimera. The Chimera was an unholy patchwork of a beast, a combination of lion, snake, and goat. Battlefield 3 is the software equivalent of a Chimera—a beast of a game stitched together from disparate parts.

    So, is the Chimera that is Battlefield 3 held back by its worthless goat element and its sneaky snake components?

    » Read More
    avatar

    Star Wars: The Old Republic Review

    Posted 01/10/2012 at 3:13pm | by David Murphy
    35
    Comments

    Star Wars: The Old Republic (TOR) comes with a buffet of a story for an MMO, but you only get to fill your plate once. From decisions as significant as choosing your character’s class specialization to events as trivial as responding to dialog options, much of what you do during your character's main story has a lasting and permanent effect. We like the feast: BioWare’s masterful use of instanced environments creates more captivating gameplay for the solo quester than most any other MMO.

    But just how does it fare as a massive multiplayer game? Hit the jump to read more!

    » Read More
    avatar

    The 30 Best PC Game Soundtracks of All Time

    Posted 01/10/2012 at 12:20pm | by Dan Scharff and Gordon Mah Ung
    68
    Comments

    Game soundtracks get no respect. Not to sound like Rodney Dangerfield, but despite years and years of amazing music coming from games, gaming music is often treated by the public the same way your mom treated your 3rd grade art project. A dismissive pat on the head and a "good work, Danny, this is beautiful!"…followed by it being promptly buried under calendars, grocery lists, and "real" art on the refrigerator.

    Things have been particularly rough for PC soundtracks where, due to a lack of audio hardware uniformity, music in the pre-CD audio era was a wildcard at best. Hell, even well into the late '90s there was no guarantee a PC even HAD a soundcard. Still, despite the limitations, we're not ashamed to say we not only respect PC game soundtracks, we flat out love them! The good ones at least. Click to see which soundtracks we love the most!

    » Read More
    avatar

    Rage Review

    Posted 11/22/2011 at 11:39am | by Dan Scharff
    13
    Comments

    Before Rage was released there were a lot of unanswered questions floating around. Could Id make another genre-defining shooter? Would the six-plus years of development and the much-touted Id Tech 5 engine yield a sufficiently impressive result? While these are certainly appropriate questions for both reviewers and gamers to be curious about, we found ourselves haunted by another, seemingly trivial, question: What does the title Rage mean? Only after playing completely through could we truly understand.

    » Read More
    avatar

    Halloween Thrills: 15 Of The Scariest PC Games Of All Time

    Posted 10/31/2011 at 10:05am | by Brad Chacos
    31
    Comments

    Halloween means different things to different people. For some, it means taking the kids out trick-or-treating; others use it as an excuse to dress like Lion-O and Cheetara and drink excessive amounts of alcohol. This gallery isn’t for them. No, this gallery is for you, our fellow PC gamers, for whom Halloween is the perfect reason to turn off the lights, jack up the volume, and try not to pee your pants as angry demons, hungry aliens and the troubled ghosts of psychic children try to turn your virtual character’s insides into your virtual character’s outsides.

    blood

    » Read More
    avatar

    Dead Island Review

    Posted 10/31/2011 at 9:00am | by Dan Scharff
    5
    Comments

    Ever dreamed of a vacation on a tropical island paradise? Ever dreamed of a vacation consisting of bludgeoning, shattering, stabbing, slashing, shooting, burning, electrocuting, and exploding hordes of bathing-suit clad zombies? Well, then Techland's latest open-world first-person survival horror action RPG (whew) is perfect for you!

    » Read More
    avatar

    The F2P Revolution: 25 Killer Online Games You Can Play For Free

    Posted 10/26/2011 at 4:40pm | by Alex Castle
    31
    Comments

    One of the biggest trends in gaming over the last half-decade has been the rise of the free to play (F2P) online business model. You might have heard it called “freemium,” or the pejorative “pay to win,” but whatever you call it, it’s here to stay. 

    You may not have heard of all the free to play games coming out recently (they don’t tend to have the same marketing budget as your Battlefields and Call of Dutys) but you should probably be paying a little more attention. Sure, some of them are a little shallow, or unfair to non-paying customers, but there are F2P games in every genre, and a lot of them are top notch.

    So why pay to play? Read on for our list of 30 top-notch free online games. For each game, we'll tell you what you get for free and what costs money, so you never get surprised.

     

    » Read More
    avatar

    Game Theory: The Dark Allure of Transhumanism

    Posted 10/25/2011 at 10:50am | by Thomas McDonald
    10
    Comments

    Modification of the individual has been at the core of the gaming experience since the inception of the role-playing genre. It wasn’t until System Shock (1995), however, that designers started probing the deeper issues beneath these newfound powers. System Shock’s spiritual descendants—the BioShock and Deus Ex series—continue to explore this nexus point where issues of gameplay intersect with one of the developing moral and ethical issues of our time: what it means to be human.

    » Read More
    avatar

    Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review

    Posted 10/14/2011 at 11:18am | by Nathan Grayson
    12
    Comments

    Deus Ex: Human Revolution gave us a game-over screen seconds after the opening credits, and we loved it. We were about to tiptoe into our first mission—deftly defusing a hostage crisis—when we encountered a trio of friendly SWAT guards. “Good guys,” said our brain. “No can hurt,” it concluded in caveman. There is, however, a certain comedic appeal in watching large objects bounce harmlessly off people’s faces, so we assisted a nearby garbage can out of earth’s pesky gravitational pull. THWACK. Immediately, the three future musketeers whipped out their firearms and turned us into cybernetically enhanced Swiss cheese. That’s when we knew: It was love at first murder.

    » Read More
    • « Previous
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    • 6
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9
    • …
    • 16
    • » Next

    Featured Content

    60 E3 2013 Pictures
    Nvidia E3 2013 Highlights
    The Witcher 3, Hawken, Warframe, and more!
    AMD Richland Review
    Even diehard fan boys can admit AMD’s not in the hunt against Intel’s top-end CPUs
    15 Father's Day Geek Gifts
    Tech gifts for dad
    London Comic Con 2013 Cosplay Gallery
    50 cosplay pictures from the London MCM Expo

    Connect with MaximumPC

    Friend us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter MacLive Podcast MaximumPC RSS

    This month's issue

    Feature
    Budget Builds Battle
    Feature
    Microsoft Surface Pro
    How To
    Start a Minecraft Server
    Build It
    We Cram a Titan into a Small-Form-Factor Rig
    Buy Subscription
    Subscribe
    Offer is good in US only. For Canada, CLICK HERE -->>

    Most Commented Articles

    327Comments
    LulzSec Hacker Receives One-Year Sentence for Sony...
    184Comments
    Windows 8 Review
    157Comments
    Windows 8 Sales Reach 100 Million Licenses, Should...
    155Comments
    Nvidia Calls The PS4 “Low End”
    149Comments
    NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Identified, and...

    MaximumPC on Facebook

    Recommendations
    • Home
    • Build a PC
    • Windows
    • Best of the Best
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Gaming
    • Subscribe to the Magazine
    • Shop
    • News
    • Reviews
    • Features
    • How Tos
    • Forums
    • Podcast
    • Videos
    • PDF Archives
    • Maximum Tech
    • Contact Us
    • Advertising
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • RSS Feeds
    • Site Map
    • Customer Service
    • Back Issues
    • Future is AOP and PPA Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year.
    • MaximumPC is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. We produce content across five core areas:
    • Technology
      • TechRadar
      • T3
      • Mac|Life
      • Gizmodo UK
      • More...
    • Entertainment
      • GamesRadar
      • CVG
      • PC Gamer
      • Total Film
      • More...
    • Music
      • Classic Rock
      • MusicRadar
      • Guitarist
      • Metal Hammer
      • More...
    • Creative
      • Digital Camera World
      • Mollie Makes
      • Photography Week
      • The Simple Things
      • More...
    • Sport & Auto
      • BikeRadar
      • Cyclingnews
      • ChopMTB
      • TriRadar
      • More...
    • About Future
    • Jobs
    • News
    • Advertising
    • Digital Future
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookies Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Shop
    • Investor Relations
    • Contact Future

    © Future US, Inc. 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, California, 94080. All Rights Reserved.