PC

Nvidia chip lauded for bringing 'console quality graphics' to platform

Just days ahead of the worldwide release of Modern Warfare 3, Activision has announced that its Call of Duty Elite service will not launch on PC alongside the game. Furthermore, it isn’t currently able to give an ETA. We’re as committed as ever to the PC, but the need to …

Global restructuring plan expected to save $128m in operational costs by 2012

Browser gaming will not move on if people are afraid to abandon pre-IE9 user base

Smash PC hit Minecraft has won the inaugural GameCity Prize, awarded on Saturday at GameCity6 in Nottingham. It’s the first time the event has awarded a GameCity prize. The judges panel included MP Tom Watson, comedian Charlie Higson and South Bank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly. The other games in …

Developer Mike Bithell says 2D platformer offers minimalist approach mixed with combination and complication

Siri, the ‘digital assistant’, that Apple bundles with the iPhone 4S,has been hackedto work on earlier Apple devices including the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. iPhone hacker Steven Troughton-Smith demonstrated theported Siri in a video, adding that Siri was completely functional on the iPhone 4 despite the single core processor. …

Rocksteady and Sports Interactive games first and third in UK sales chart

Sony Online Entertainment’s PS3 and PC MMO DC Universe Online will become a free-to-play title on November 1st. The studio announced that it was going to switch its title to the F2P model last month, but has only now finalised a date. New players joining under the F2P model will …

Valve perplexed by extraordinary conversion rate for Team Fortress 2