The highly anticipated multi-platform title Prototype opened up for pre-orders via Steam yesterday and publisher ActiVision has, in all its wisdom, set the price at €59.99 for mainland Europe. A whopping €60 for a digitally distributed PC game? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

Vin Diesel is in the midst of the safest comeback attempt I’ve seen in a long time, in that it appears that he’s revisiting every property he’s ever seen any success in. First he reprised his role in the latest…

Cooperative gaming is a fad these days and last week Killing Floor arrived to help scratch the itch. Originally Killing Floor was a “total conversion” mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, a mod so professional and popular that it has been released as a stand-alone game, with help from the original modding team and distributed via Steam by Tripwire Interactive.

One simple word can describe the state of Piracy within the free market: Sealand. In 2007 founding members of the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay started a campaign to free themselves of the ‘tyrannical’ international and domestic copyright laws by simply circumventing the whole issue in it’s entirety by buying its own sovereign nation.

Empire Total War is the latest addition to the legendary Total War series and brings back many memories of the previous games, but with new technology and some great graphics, can it outshine its predecessors? Or will the bugs in this game be the thing that kills it?

It’s no secret to anyone who frequents this site that I’m a fan of Fallout 3. Unfortunately, it did ship with one major flaw - once you finished the main quest, the game was completely over. There’s no going back and finishing your side quests, or just playing around in the Capital Wastelands, it’s just over. Until now, that is.

I’ve always been into stealth-action titles so regardless what any of the large gaming websites said I was almost certainly picking Velvet Assassin up, and I decided to do so for the PC.

Velvet Assassin is a stealth-action game set in World War II. The game’s protagonist is Violette Summer, a British agent working deep behind the German lines.

As the big budget game publishers tighten their wallets in the aftermath of the crashing stock market, and choose to focus on sequels and generally tried and true formulas for games we look at the Indie scene for something out of the ordinary.

There have been quite a few interesting, and exciting announcements to come out of this week’s GDC, but none so mind-blowing as the announcement of OnLive. For those that haven’t heard about it yet, OnLive is a service that will allow gamers to stream current, high profile video games to just about any PC or Mac, as well as a tiny microconsole that you can connect to a TV. If you’ve got the bandwidth, then games will stream down to you in 1280×720 resolution at 60 fps. This could have a drastic impact on the face of the gaming industry over the course of the coming years.

When looking at legacy titles on the PC it is often easy to dismiss them as being nothing more then products of their time, with little to give to a post Crysis world. However when looking at the soundtracks of…