The Machinarium developers are sad pandas. You see, when they released Machinarium, they decided to keep it completely DRM free, so that gamers weren’t bothered with stupid online authentications and product keys. The problem, with trying to be so awesome to your audience, is that from what they have determined, the piracy rate on the game was so bad that …

I think that this little comic strip sums the situation with DRM up pretty darn perfectly. A better solution really needs to be found, and soon because it’s just sad to know that all of the loyal customers out there are still being screwed for doing the right thing. The pirates however, are having an easier time than ever. You …

You may remember a while back that Geoff posted about the upcoming XBLA shooter Privates which was set in a vagina and featured helmeted sperm fighting their way out and in… and out and in and.. you get the idea. Well it’s no surprise that Microsoft quickly put the kibosh on that but what is a little more surprising is …

I only started playing Torchlight fairly recently, and if there is one thing it does very, very well… it’s that it makes for one heck of a Diablo replacement while we wait for Diablo III to arrive in 2011. One of the biggest missing features is undoubtedly the lack of co-operative multiplayer, which was simply one of the biggest reasons …

We all know that the original StarCraft is pretty much South Korea’s national sport but what you possibly didn’t know is how much of the entire StarCraft economy is taken by South Korea. In a nutshell 43% of all StarCraft players are in South Korea and just under 50% of all the sales of StarCraft were in South Korea alone. …

That isn’t a sensationalist headline, Starcraft 2 is, in its current state, capable of making your graphics card overheat and turn itself into a very expensive soup. Starcraft 2 developers Blizzard seemed to have somehow overlooked a tiny detail in their code, and the results can be, well… expensive. The issue is pretty simple in that Blizzard somehow forgot to …

Last night Codemasters debuted the trailer for their upcoming DiRT 3 on ESPN in the States. We haven’t been told anything about the title yet but from the trailer it looks like we are going to be rallying in a bunch of different terrains and weather patterns but it’s the ending that I find the most interesting. The more likely …

I’m not generally a fan of the Lego series of games, I find them to be simply hanging onto others success and really not worthy of the bucket loads of money that is thrust upon them… however personal opinions aside I have to say that this latest Lego conversion, Lego Starwars, is awesome. It’s mainly awesome because it isn’t an …