Posted 08/26/08 at 03:00:00 PM by Thomas McDonald

So is PC gaming hosed? That seems to be the case for games that a) are not massively multiplayer, b) don’t have “Sims” in the title, or c) aren’t played by your mom.

But it’s not really as dire as all that. Mass Effect actually made it to number 2, and Sins of a Solar Empire to number 9, on the current NPD PC sales charts.

Those numbers, however, don’t reflect where PC owners are really gettin’ their game on: with casual games. Remember when you would say you were a PC gamer and people would say, “Yeah, me too,” and you’d ask what they played, and they’d say, “Minesweeper and Solitaire.” And you’d chuckle. Good times!

More after the jump.

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Posted 06/27/08 at 03:31:27 PM by Paul Lilly

In a recent interview, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli blasted the PC industry as "the most intensely pirated market ever." By his own estimation, Yerli believes the sales-to-piracy ratio could be as high as 1 to 20, or in other words, for every videogame legitmately sold, 20 more are illegally downloaded or copied.

Yerli also critiqued certain aspects of Crysis. Click through the jump to see what he had to say, and what to expect differently from Crysis Warhead.

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Posted 06/27/08 at 01:55:33 PM by Will Smith

In the July issue, I tested HP’s Mini-Note—the small, cheap notebook is HP’s answer to the subcompact, sub-$500 Asus Eee PC. HP’s tiny notebook got me thinking about the point of diminishing PC returns—the point at which adding more hardware oomph doesn’t deliver a perceptible performance boost to the user.

I didn’t have any major complaints with its performance in my most common activities: web browsing, checking email, writing documents, and listening to music. Is this Mini-Note’s 1.2GHz VIA C7-M CPU fast enough for me?

Hit the jump for my conclusions.

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Posted 04/15/08 at 03:27:42 PM by David Murphy

UPDATE: Crytek tells a Crysis modder to stop showing off his CryEngine 2 port of Oblivion, but we've found mirrors to this awesome graphical accomplishment!

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Posted 01/08/08 at 05:47:19 PM by Thomas McDonald

We're nearly drowning in top-notch fragfests!

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Posted 12/07/07 at 06:00:32 PM by Will Smith

Let's get the obvious stuff out of the way up front. On a properly configured Vista machine with DirectX 10 hardware, Crysis is the best-looking game we've ever played. Its jungle environments are lush and realistic, with plenty of wide-open areas and just a handful of loading screens in the entire game. This incredible level of graphical detail is what PC gaming is all about.

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Posted 10/24/07 at 03:55:16 PM by Will Smith

DirectX 10 games are finally here, and they're all that we've been waiting for. Plus: An interview with Crysis' Cevat Yerli!

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Posted 10/05/07 at 09:56:45 AM by Michael Brown

It's no longer rumor: Nvidia will launch new hardware in November.

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