Replete with obtuse battles against heavily armored bosses, computer-hacking minigames and punishing stealth missions, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" demands patience of its players. If you're happy to oblige, you'll get to experience some of the best levels and backstory gaming has to offer..
Now that I've got my gaming PC built, games I'm most looking forward to include "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings," upcoming MMOs "The Secret World" and "Knights of the Old Republic," as well as entire genres I can't play on consoles.
Here's a more detailed, look at how I built my gaming rig last weekend. You'll find detailed descriptions of all the parts I ordered, plus a step-by-step synopsis of what I did to put my PC together.
With nearly six years having passed since the launch of the Xbox 360, PC gaming is starting to look appealing to even the most dedicated of console players. As I recently discovered, putting your own gaming rig together is about as easy as hooking up a home theater system.
The August lull is a great time for catching up on all those games you swore you were gonna play after you finished some of those other games. A quick look at four titles from my backlog. This is a longer version that what appears in Friday's Press Democrat and includes "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."
The past few weeks of this slow summer have been spent playing "Catherine" and "Infamous 2," plus a handful of downloadable games and older releases.
Nexon's free-to-play MMO is in open beta and set to launch in a few days. Also worth a look from recent weeks, "Catherine," "Bastion" and "Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet," among others.
The latest first-person shooter from the studio behind classics such as "Doom" and "Quake" features the expected well-tuned gunplay but also some surprisingly fun vehicle segments and the voice work of John Goodman.
Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion is all well and good, but here's a look at a few great downloadable games that can hold their own against the format's very best.