Tuesday, December 7, 2010

PC Gaming is DEAD!: December 7th, 2010



Congratulations to Skies of Arcadia, who won the Dec. 5th trivia contest, and received a copy of NyxQuest!

Yesterday’s question:
The Commodore 128 was Commodore’s last 8-bit personal computer. What was the name of it’s 32-bit computer series?

The Amiga 500 was the best-selling of the line.
Just look at that mouse...
Answer: The Amiga.

100 Amiga games in 10 minutes!

Today’s Daily Deal for Games for Windows Live is Max Payne 2 for 99 cents.

Steam's Midweek Madness: Eets for $2.50, now through Dec 9th at 4pm PT.

Direct 2 Drive has Test Drive Unlimited on sale for $9.95.

Bejeweled 3 released today. No other major game releases!

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime gameplay trailer.

Bethesda is releasing a large update for Fallout: New Vegas soon.

The Oddboxx bundle is coming to Steam, including former Xbox exclusives Stranger’s Wrath and Munch’s Oddysee, as well as the older Oddworld titles, Abe’s Oddysee and Abe’s Exoddus.

NES DJ Hero taken off creator's website due to music copyright issues.
http://ericruthgames.com

EA games label president
claims that online multi-player and extra online content is the future of gaming. We discuss whether gamers want tacked-on online content in their games, or the ability to make their own content and share it online.

Reader mail:
We received a link to a petition to bring GFWL to more countries.

GFWL currently denies service to many locations, so many gamers aren't able to take advantage of their sales.

Send trivia question responses and feedback to pcgamingisdead@gmail.com.  Thanks for listening!

1 comment:

  1. i love that the picture is a 16 bit amiga. the irony.

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