Eliminating the Blizzard side of Activision\Blizzard leaves a barren desolate wasteland of half-baked console ports limping their way to PC. The recent news of the exclusion of PC from the public multiplayer beta of Call Of Duty:Elite is one more slap in the face to PC gamers at time where the rest of the industry find innovation everywhere on the platform.
Full Disclosure: I full on hate Activision due to recent profit-mongering and closures of veteran studios that underperformed over a short period of time. They are the best example of the “selling soap” method of corporate management and while I truly respect the ability of the executive team to squeeze ROI for stockholders, the company has a historical reputation of milking IP and then abandoning it.
PC is my platform of choice for FPS. The tight response control given by a mouse and keyboard is vastly superior to even the finest of console games. Generally, PC games offer higher resolutions, better textures and fine-grain control over feature sets to allow the user to manage their experience to the best of their hardware.
Activision will have none of that.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sampler platter: Games I started and couldn’t be bothered to finish
Despite the financial woes of Blockbuster Canada killing my beloved monthly game deal that allowed 2 games out at a time for a flat fee of $39, I am still trying to try as many games as I can. Gamefly has no presence here, and the only mail-order game service is not well regarded to say the least.
Monday, July 11, 2011
A steam sale took my baby: PC gaming screens
BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM 1680x1050 all settings maxed 4X MSAA
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