Games galore for my PC junkies

	Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising If there's one thing Chaos loves to do, it's to rise. Chaos is a bugger for a good rise. Fortunately for us, the Blood Ravens are around to put a stop to such silly shenanigans, so when the Black...
	Metro 2033 Post-apocalyptic shooters don't come along very often. That was a lie, but post-apocalyptic shooters that look more interesting than other post-apocalyptic shooters are quite rare indeed. Metro 2...
	Aliens vs. Predator's multiplayer triple threat There is something to be said for the crossover. Bringing two previously separated universes together is entirely entertaining. It can be like a meeting between two lovers, or a car crash. One is...
	Spec Ops: The Line, 'The most provocative shooter ever' Cory Davis, lead designer on Spec Ops: The Line, didn’t waste any time in our preview session -- he began by stating that The Line will be “the most provocative shooter you [will] eve...
	It's never a good day in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Russia's reach grows and war could break out with the United States at any second. Russian military bases are being established all over South America and growing ever closer to US borders. Ther...
	Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Years after the events of the original game, Lynch has found himself a new home in Shanghai. Lynch is part of a small crime syndicate made up of ex-patriots from various countries and the group h...
	Being more than modern with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Apparently I suck majorly at first-person shooters. A genre I've only recently gotten into, thanks to games like Left 4 Dead, Half Life, Team Fortress, and Borderlands, I figure I'm a capable FPS...
	Entering Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, Borderlands' DLC #2 Earlier this week, Gearbox was nice enough to send over a build of Borderland's second piece of downloadable content, "Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot." That's the good news. The bad news is that I'd ...
	Sharing the shadows: Splinter Cell: Conviction Walking through the tunnel system, my partner and I hid in the shadows, dropping the world in shades of black and white. We needed to lay the C4 charges to break through the wall. Which wasn't so...
	Mass Effect 2 Some of you have been eagerly anticipating the sequel to BioWare's 2007 action-RPG-shooter-space-exploration-thing Mass Effect. Some of you have not. I can empathize with both groups. I quite lik...
	Super Meat Boy Super Meat Boy is already a success story. Thousands of free games hit Newgrounds every year, and for Meat Boy to rise above them all to be super-remade into a WiiWare/PC retail product is an ach...
	Getting mad, ugly and dirty with M.U.D. TV You know, as of late, there really has not been many so called “economy simulators”. You know, those from the late Nineties and early 2000s that challenged players to work the economi...
	Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 For as long as games have been a popular form of entertainment, they have always had to have a special trick. Sure, we don’t want to call it a “gimmick,” but there will ideally ...
	The rush that is Bad Company 2's multiplayer The signature multiplayer mode from the original Battlefield: Bad Company, Gold Rush, is back in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now simply called Rush, two teams battle it out on a slowly expanding ...
	Partying like it's 1959 in BioShock 2's multiplayer It’s 1959, a full year before the events of the original BioShock took place. A civil war has broken out over ADAM -- Atlas and Andrew Ryan are fighting over the control of the precious res...
	BioShock 2 through the eyes of Big Daddy In 1960, a man named Jack came down to Rapture and did things that would change the city forever. He killed the founder of Rapture, Andrew Ryan, took away the precious ADAM supply by taking the L...
	Brick by brick in a whole new world: LEGO Universe It is good professional practice that when you first meet a developer to exchange business cards, then follow up with a friendly handshake. However, during one recent gaming opportunity, checking...
	Hands-on Dark Void: Imagine greater than Syfy The other day, Capcom had an event to help spread the word about Dark Void. While you may have heard about the contest that was announced, the event didn't really lend itself to getting a good id...
	Left 4 Dead 2's new Scavenge mode As you found out late last night, Valve unveiled the new Scavenge mode for Left 4 Dead 2. It's a interesting new game mode aimed at players looking for a quick fix of zombie killing. In fact, a r...
	Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, is a game that acts as a pseudo-sequel to the original Operation Flashpoint back from 2001. While the studios are different, and the team behind it has a slig...
	Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan My dear Tales of Monkey Island,Telltale has treated you so good, turning you into a successful episodic franchise. Many would say you do the original justice, which is a wonderful thing to see. O...
	Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer Activision and Infinity Ward were kind enough to host an event in Hollywood last night to give us a first look at the multiplayer in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward's Vince Zampella...
	Blur multiplayer with Todd the elevator guy Last week, we attended an Activision event to check out some new games, and it was there that we met up with the folks from Bizarre Creations, just in from the UK. They were in attendance looking...
	The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition If you played Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, you probably know that there were good things and, well, bad things with the game. However, that has not stopped the game from selling well enough (s...
	Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins has been an uncharacteristically low-profile game from BioWare. The studio has certainly put its marketing weight behind the game, but it's failed to capture the imagination o...
	Tropico 3 taught me things about dictators Dictators juggle. The good ones provide destructive industry on the richest land while appeasing environmentalists with monuments built to suit their fancy. They declare edicts and talk to their ...
	Fairytale Fights The last time I saw Fairytale Fights, I was surrounded by business types in a small room at E3, where I was the only member of the press. Weird to say the least, I was at least able to catch an e...
	StarCraft II single-player Back at the end of July, I got to go back to Blizzard headquarters to take a look at StarCraft II once again. This time, instead of crushing other publications under the might of my hydralisk swa...
	Odd Society: City-building without the hassle Odd Society is an indie title that flew under our radar. Developed by Odd 1 Incorporated, it’s a simplistic point-and-click title created by a team of 20 or so passionate people. It launche...
	Tropico 3 I'll admit, I've never had the burning desire to be a Latin American dictator. Something between the ten hour rants and the constant military garb is just off putting. However, it seems to be a f...
	Risen After seeing Cursed Mountain at Deep Silver's press event, I also got a chance to spend some time with Risen, a PC/360 fantasy RPG that's apparently banned in Australia. Before going into this, I...
	Left 4 Dead 2 You know what's awesome? Playing Left 4 Dead with the writer of Portal. You're not here to read my smug little boasts, however, you're here to read a preview of Left 4 Dead 2. We were at Valve So...
	Borderlands It's a funny thing, Borderlands. While excitement arose during its initial 2007 announcement, it was the cel-shaded graphics that brought the game the most attention. After that, however, Borderl...
	Champions Online I'll be the first to admit: The idea of being a superhero has been a stupid little fantasy of mine many times in my life. Who doesn't want to be able to have amazing powers and do awesome things,...
	Machinarium If there's one thing we like here at Destructoid, it's robots; if there's two things we like, it's robots and adventure games. When we received a preview copy of Machinarium this weekend, our exc...
	Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim If there is one complaint I have about the RTS genre, it s that is be a bit too…involved. I mean, there is no lazy way to play StarCraft or Command and Conquer. You’ve got to actuall...
	Captain Blood Another night in Moscow was an interesting event. While many of the games were decidedly Russian in nature and narrative (where’s looking at Men of War: Red Tide and Death to Spies: Moment ...
	King's Bounty: Armored Princess You know, during Another Night in Moscow, there was one game that immediately attracted my attention: King’s Bounty: Armored Princess. First of all, there was something really was off abo...
	Dream Killer Mindware Studios, the creators of Painkiller Overdose, are coming out with a new first person shooter game called Dream Killer. The game stars Alice Drake, a psychiatrist who uses special abiliti...
	StarCraft II multiplayer Last week, I was fortunate enough to be invited over to Blizzard headquarters down in Irvine to get the first hands-on look at the eagerly anticipated StarCraft II. While the original plan was fo...
	Fairytale Fights I’ll be real, when I first heard about Fairytale Fights a few weeks back, I thought it was some Xbox LIVE Arcade game appealing to people who think Celebrity Deathmatch is funny. I mean, co...
	RUSE will have touch screen support The RUSE battlefield is represented as a battle map within a Command Center. Zoom out to the maximum and you can see in the background the current war room you're situated in with soldiers and pe...
	All Points Bulletin  My long walk (or huff) across the E3 convention center concourse to see a behind closed doors demo of Realtime Worlds MMO All Points Bulletin was worth the effort. I’ve always had my trepid...
	First look at Aliens vs. Predator We had the distinct pleasure to get some time behind closed doors with developer Rebellion, who gave us a first look at the Aliens vs. Predator single-player mode for the Marines. This was the th...
	BioShock 2 The original BioShock was one of the best games of 2007. It won numerous awards (we gave it a perfect score), and many gamers hailed it as one of the best videogames ever made. A lot of the game ...
	Saw Every October, Hollywood grants moviegoers the chance to see some really old dude set up really crazy elaborate traps, all because he wants people to have a better appreciation for life. I hear m...
	X-Men Origins: Wolverine I don't really like licensed games at all. Not just because they're nearly always awful, but I have a mental hang-up where I find it difficult to enjoy a videogame when it's not truly original. W...
	Wolfenstein Not much has changed since Raven Software and Activision first showed off Wolfenstein at New York City Comic Con a few months back. But allow me to recap...Following the events of Return to Castl...
	America's Army 3 America's Army 3 is going for bigger and better this time around. The sounds are more authentic, the lighting is more realistic, characters move like real soldiers, to so much more. You'll even n...
	GDC 09: The CryENGINE 3 is next-gen ready Shortly before attending GDC 09, I learned that Crytek announced the CryENGINE 3. I’m not a big PC gamer, so I didn’t really look into the announcement. It’s Crytek, so I knew i...
	Clones Every once in a while, you have one of those moments where you realize that an idea was so directly in front of your face all the time, that you can't believe you didn't have it yourself. That ha...
	GDC 09: Huxley is one part MMO, one part FPS A long time ago, Electronic Gaming Monthly had a giant cover story on a game called Huxley. The main thing I took away from EGM’s preview was that Huxley was going to be the first MMOFPS an...
	GDC 09: League of Legends was a pleasant surprise Here's my prediction: League of Legends is going to be a popular game. Don't be ashamed if you don't know what it is, though. Even though I've heard the name before, I didn't really know what the...
	GDC 09: Batman: Arkham Asylum When Nick asked me if I was okay with spending the entirety of my time at GDC visiting and reporting on conferences, I told him in a high-pitched, nasal voice that if anyone was showing the new B...
	GDC 09:Section 8 It’s the future and humans have been leaving Earth to settle on colonies all across space. Everything has been going fine and dandy until one day, some of the colonies stopped all contact w...
	Terminator Salvation Ah, post-apocalyptia. Humans have always seemed to have a peculiar fascination with the End of the World, from the Bible all the way through, well, Terminator Salvation, the upcoming film starrin...
	Demigod Even though it didn't make my "Top Five" list earlier this year, I've been really looking forward to Gas Powered Games' upcoming game Demigod. It's a difficult game to describe. The clo...
	BattleForge's multiplayer The other day, I had a chance to spend some time on EA and Phenomic's upcoming real time strategy game, BattleForge for the PC. If you haven't heard of it before, shame on you -- go eat some glas...
	Ether Saga Online Entering the MMO market nowadays is always a risky venture. They're expensive to make, expensive to keep running, and you have to attract loads of people for it to work. I mean, anything that is ...
	The Sims 3 I often lament the fact that I don’t have a gaming-capable PC, but to be honest, I’m very glad that I don’t own one for some things. EA’s The Sims franchise is one of thos...
	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II If the emergence of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, the coming of Halo Wars and awesome authority of Starcraft 2 have anything to say, it's that the real-time strategy as a genre is very releva...
	DC Universe Online “I’m the goddamn Batman!” No, you are not likely to find yourself shouting that phrase while playing Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming PS3/PC action MMO, DC Universe O...
	Zeno Clash When we did our recent "Most Anticipated '09 PC Games" list, Zeno Clash made an appearance on a number of our community members' personal lists. At the time we made the lists, I had hea...
	Texas Cheat 'Em D3 Publisher is a company full of sin. They’ve been promoting lust with all of the Onechanbara stuff and now they’re promoting greed with Texas Cheat ‘Em. It’s bad enough ...
	Battlestations: Pacific A sunset ferry ride is the last thing I would ever lump with coverage of a videogame, much less a videogame dealing with the violent struggle and sea battles in the World War II Pacific. But ther...
	CrimeCraft Sometimes, I really want chocolate. Sometimes, I really want peanut butter. And occasionally, I want ice cream. This problem is perfectly solved when I go eat some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup...
	AtariDay: Codename Panzers: Cold War It’s World War II time again! Earlier, you read about Heroes Over Europe, where you will play through missions that happened in real life. With Codename Panzers: Cold War, you will experien...