It’s taken a few months but I’ve now finally completed both WarCraft 3: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne singleplayer campaigns in hard mode. I had already finished the regular real-time strategy missions this weekend, but The Frozen Throne also shipped with three massive RPG acts that form the Orc campaign, which took a [...]

The Alliance Tournament is an annual event in EVE Online where 64 teams face off against each other in a strict tournament format dictated by CCP. It’s also accompanied by high definition video footage with commentary for every match in the tournament, which can make for great viewing even if you’re not an active EVE [...]

A new machinima series demonstrates exactly how far this art of video making in game engines has come. Dragon Age: Warden’s Fall is an episodic story based on the Dragon Age: Origin’s toolset and story. It picks up where the game left off, before the Awakening expansion pack, and follows the Warden Kristoff in his [...]

The Alliance Tournament is an annual event in EVE Online where 64 teams face off against each other in a strict tournament format dictated by CCP. It’s also accompanied by high definition video footage with commentary for every match in the tournament, which can make for great viewing even if you’re not an active EVE [...]

The beta test may have been shut down yesterday, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to talk about with regards to StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Most of you probably didn’t get a chance to participate in the StarCraft 2 beta test, so I’ve decided to revive the screenshots galore feature with a large batch [...]

Battle.net is the renown online multiplayer service for all Blizzard games and it looks set to change greatly with the impending release of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Blizzard has gone in a new direction with this service and intends to make it a social portal that connects all gamers that are using the Battle.net [...]

In GameDrone Monthly I give a recap of my gaming activities in the past month, some new articles on GameDrone that you might have missed and what I expect to be doing in the coming month. Maybe you’d like share your experiences, send in a game you’d like me to cover on GameDrone or team [...]

In Games Worth Playing I take a look at noteworthy games released during the previous month. It contains both a list of worthwhile new games and coverage of the most highly anticipated releases of the month. Of course I can’t play every game that’s released in a month, but I’ll do my best to get [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve last played Mass Effect 2, but Bio Break‘s Mass Effect 2 Wrapup brought back some memories. Mostly good memories, because as you’ve undoubtedly heard, Mass Effect 2 is a good game. In fact, it’s probably the prime candidate for the Game of the Year title thus far, although Red [...]

Valve introduced the new game guides feature on Steam a few days ago, with the release of strategy guides for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Just Cause 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. This was done in partnership with Prima, which had already written and published strategy guides [...]

I’ve been experimenting with a few live streaming services lately, in order to broadcast live gaming footage, mostly of the StarCraft 2 beta. It turns out that there are two big streaming sites that cater to this scene, namely Livestream and Ustream. They both have an audience numbering in the tens of thousands, but curiously [...]

Assembling your own PC can be a confusing venture, especially if you’re no hardware geek and have to resort to ‘expert’ opinions when selecting hardware components. This isn’t so much of a problem when faced with selecting a video card or processor, because there are plenty of benchmarks for these components to be found on [...]