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Portal used to cost money. Until May 24th, it’s free. End of story.

Well, technically speaking, there are some strings attached. Fortunately, they’re entirely decorative. We just like the way they look, swaying in the gentle breeze created by a million people simultaneously fainting from shock at the news that Portal is free. Now you have no reason not to try Portal.

“I have a reason,” some of you are probably typing into an angry email. “You see, sir, I own a Mac.”

Well guess what: For the first time ever, Portal is also available for the Mac.

“Capital news! But the excellent puzzle adventure Portal won over 40 Game of the Year awards; Surely it must cost at least five or six hundred dollars.”

Torchlight 50% off

Behold Torchlight, a fresh new Action RPG franchise developed by Runic Games. Torchlight is being developed in Seattle by a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, and Fate. Our team has spent many years honing and evolving this unique style of gameplay.

The adventure is set in the mining settlement of Torchlight, a boomtown founded on the discovery of rich veins of Ember – a rare and mysterious ore with the power to enchant or corrupt all that it contacts. This corruptive power may have dire consequences however, and players set out into the nearby mountains and depths below to discover the full extent of Ember’s influence on the civilizations that have come before.

Runic Games will initially release Torchlight as a standalone Single Player game, Torchlight will be released in the latter part of 2009 as a download or in box. Following the single player release, work will commence on a fully-featured MMO version.

Thanks Space_guy123 for pointing it out in the FORUMS

The little engine that could… APB is kind of coming out of the blue this summer and the more I look at some of the details of the game the more hope I have for it. Could it be that this is the MMO that will pull some of the PC community together? Let’s follow the game and see if we can find out a little more.

Just spotted this on Shacknews.  I really like the concept of paying any amount you please.   Check it out!

http://www.wolfire.com/humble

Only 3 days left though, sale ends at 4pm EDT on May 15th.

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Dedicated gaming mice… special keyboards and mousing surfaces the size of a sweater. Headphones and maybe even gaming monitors. Is all that stuff worth it? Do they enhance your game time or is it just for show? I am sure you will get some good information in this podcast!

As always there was lot’s of other gaming news and info to talk about. Here is the list:

The more I see of the game and now even some of the adds point very much to a mature audience. That alone is promising as far as content and quality. I hope they can deliver and make a great game! I’ll keep my eyes on this for sure and you should too!

Is it just me or does it look a lot like a fancy Borderlands?

Achievements just been announced for a bunch of games. Notably Starcraft HD and Civ V. I never was much into them but I am far from the norm. I want to talk about this in an upcoming podcast. It would be great to hear some input.

Are achievements important to you? How important? Do they influence your buying decision? Do you look your friends achievements up on Steam or console?

So let’s hear it.

2K Games announces Steamworks support for Sid Meier’s Civilization V, the upcoming continuation of the long-running turn-based strategy series, saying Steam will also offer a special Digital Deluxe Edition. Steamworks support will include auto-updating, Steam Achievements, downloadable content, multiplayer matchmaking and more, and they say anyone who preorders either edition through Steam will also receive a free map pack when the game ships this fall. In the meantime, they are offering Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition at a 75% discount.

Blizzard said it, so it must be so. Korea just made the 27th and the rest of the week an official holiday, since things won’t happen in the country that week anyway (jk). Here is what Blizzard said:

STARCRAFT® II: WINGS OF LIBERTY™

IN STORES STARTING JULY 27, 2010

IRVINE, Calif. – May 3, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™, will arrive in stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau starting on July 27, 2010. Players will also be able to purchase StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty directly from Blizzard Entertainment shortly after the retail launch.

“We’ve been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we’re excited that the time for that is almost here,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Thanks to our beta testers, we’re making great progress on the final stages of development, and we’ll be ready to welcome players all over the world to StarCraft II and the new Battle.net® in just a few months.”

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Wii remote into tv

Bungie and Activision Together… and HAPPY???

Asus – Laptop with Intel® Core™ i7 Processor – G73JH-RBBX05 Wizzle’s Laptop from bestbuy!

A comic about HDTV, and you know its true!

Pics of Sapphire 4GB HD5970:

1. Angle shot
2. on a Motherboard
3. Sapphire site

HP Slate axed? OH NOES!!!!

WePad & WePad vs iPad (PDF!)

Dell Latitude XT2

Corran will be bring us a full report on this next week.
Ninja’s bring you food! & a video! & Shadow Fox shows us the ropes!

ubisoft pentition

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There was a TON of sales this week and we are wondering why everybody all the sudden wanted to have it a great sales week?! Other than that we took a closer look at Curlen’s new gaming Laptop. here are the talking points:

• Left 4 Dead 2, revisiting the single player
• Corran is back
• A closer look at a crazy sales week
• Curlen’s benchmark Marathon
• Battlefield Bad Company 2 Post Patch
• The Modern Warfare 2 Silver Lining…. CO-OP
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Activision – Bungie… what the…???
• Asus G73 gaming Laptop
• PC Games Development
• Why don’t PC gaming sites and podcasts not talking more about UBI?
• Test Drive Unlimited 2
• HP Slate canceled?
• New Saphire 5970 with 4GB ram
• Do you need a dedicated sound card?
• Just Cause 2 DLC

Did anyone play the first Test Drive Unlimited? If so, how was it? Looks like they are adding MMO like features to a racing game, which sounds interesting. So let’s hear it, what do you guys think?

OK, what is going on with all the sales this week?

If you been here a while you know that we don’t post that many usually. We just highlight good deals, especially when we are tempted by them too. Now they have a 8 hour special for GTA IV on steam. $7.50… just wow!

I have the game for my XBOX360, or better the Wizzle has it, but heck… for that price… it might be worth it to buy it again… or is it… darn you STEAM!

Any of you guys have it? How is the Multiplayer on PC? Let me know.. 8 hours isn’t much time to make up my mind!

An interesting look into the life, mind and world of Richard Garriot aka Lord British. It’s quite interesting to look a little into what makes the man tick. Too bad Tabula Rasa didn’t live up to the expectations. I wanted to like it, but there just wasn’t enough there.
Somewhere I have a picture with me and him, meeting him at an E3 where he showed his then unreleased Ultima Online. If I find it I scan it and post it.