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pc EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Today's Steam deals: Cheap Arkham Asylum, DA:O, and more 22 Steam has kicked off its holiday sale today with a slew of great deals. Every day, from now until Monday, a new set of discounted games will become active. It's not like your eyes aren't already ... Visions: The Christian MMORPG you never knew you needed 65 For many years, I have pondered my purpose on this small planet we call Earth. Now, by the grace of God, who loves me best of all His children, I know what I have been destined to do with my prec... Dragon Slayers in Divinity II run slow, are bad at hiding 5 Divinity II -- Ego Draconis went gold a day or so ago, but don’t expect to see it in a GameStop in the near future. The title is still slated for a January 5th release. That means you a bi... Mass Effect 2 PC: DRM and system requirements! 31 Mass Effect 2 PC details have dropped today, bringing somewhat decent news all round. Both the system requirements and the DRM situation have been revealed today, so those of you that use the wor... Steam to come pre-installed on Alienware PCs 32 It seems that you can't really be a PC gamer until you have Steam running on your computer, and it would appear that Dell and Valve are in agreement on this. It's been revealed that the immensely... Swallow these Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising screens 14 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 is getting a hot new expansion, Chaos Rising, bringing the twisted denizens of the Warp to Relic's much-loved tactical RPG. To celebrate, some brand new screens ha... Skip Subway, get Plants vs. Zombies for $5 instead 25 Who needs a five-dollar footlong (oh God, the song is back in my head) when you could have Plants vs. Zombies for the same price? Good from now until November 26, PopCap's lawn defense game is ha... Longoria confirmed for MLB 2K10 cover, you vote on design 9 Last week, a survey leaked to Kotaku suggested that Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria would be on the cover of 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K10. 2K sent out a press release earlier ... Find Just Cause 2 in your store of choice this March 11 The recent talk of Pandemic has made me realize something: I haven't played a truly crazy action game since Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. And no, Modern Warfare 2 doesn't count. Can you fall hu... Destructoid staff presents: Holiday Gift Guide 2009 29 Tis' the season for gift giving. With some many great games released this year, finding the perfect gift for that gamer in your life (or for yourself, you selfish jerk!) can be quite a task. That... Ten Minute Taste: Borderlands 'Zombie Island' DLC 16 As we said about 40 minutes ago, Borderlands DLC “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned” is a thing that is happening right now over PSN and Xbox LIVE. I grabbed the content off of Xbox LIVE ... Gearbox's Helquist talks Borderlands' conclusion 38 A lot of people -- including a few Destructoid staff members -- didn’t dig the so-called “weak” conclusion to Borderlands. I can’t agree with the assessment for a few reas... WoW and Guild Wars producer likes MMO subscriptions 22 If there is one thing that people can't seem to agree on in the world of MMOs, it's how games that are designed to be played forever should fund themselves. There are plenty of models out there, ... Nightwing brings night, wings to DC Universe Online 13 Sony Online Entertainment has revealed that Nightwing will appear in the upcoming PlayStation 3 and PC MMO DC Universe Online. Of course, this is no surprise. It's the "universe," guys. That's li... cdv's action-RPG Dinivity II goes gold for PC, Xbox 360 14 cdv Software Entertainment and dtp entertainment have announced that its action-RPG, Divinity II: Eco Draconis, has gone gold. The title will hit North American retailers on January 5, 2010 for b... Ubisoft reminds us Assassin's Creed II is popular, good 38 Publisher Ubisoft is pleased with the reception to Assassin's Creed II, so much that its issued a press release to remind us. According to the publisher, the title has sold through 1.6 million un... (Almost) All Mass Effect 2 units to develop ME2 DLC 19 In a recent conversation with GTTV (via TVGB), Mass Effect 2 project director Casey Hudson revealed that most of the ME2 team would switch to working on ME2 downloadable content after the complet... Microsoft looking into its own 'super guide' 42 Ever the trend setter, it looks like Nintendo may have started a new one -- holding players' hands.  Siliconera recently dug up a Microsoft patent filing that appears to be its own answer to... Mass Effect 2 'surprise' revealed (we think) 37 Remember that Mass Effect 2 surprise teased over the weekend? It looks like that surprise has now been revealed, and well, we’re still reeling from the shocker. In a recent Facebook post, t... Demigod patch time: Introducing the Demon Assassin 9 It sure has been quiet on the Demigod front lately. You know what that means -- time for a patch! Ready for download as of today, v1.2 is an exciting development for anyone deeply routed in the g... Blizzard's @warcraft Twitter account teasing... something 17 We're not even sure if it's news, but we've written about far less in the past, so here I go. Blizzard's Official Warcraft Twitter account is teasing something for this Thursday. What? We already... 16-player co-op Left 4 Dead 2 looks like a bad dream 35 Confession: When playing co-op Left 4 Dead, I'm the guy who's always shooting you in the back. I mean, I don't do it on purpose. It's just that what if you were a zombie? Also, I'm not a very go... The ultimate PC gamer to-do list 288 Let it be known across the land that I am now a PC gamer. I have come into possession of a PC that has glowing green lights on it which means it's probably awesome, and I have been downloading ga... Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC gets a patch 24 While those of us with laptops who couldn't process their way out of a simple algebraic equation are playing Left 4 Dead 2 on their 360, there is definitely a large chunk of gamers out there who ... Think L4D2 is an expansion? You're a f*cking idiot 308 Left 4 Dead 2 released this past week and while most people are having fun with it, there is a dedicated clan of people who are determined to convince the world that Left 4 Dead 2 is not a real g... Currently 'no plans' to bring Resident Evil 5's DLC to PC 16 In recent years, Capcom has made some great progress in terms of becoming invested in PC gaming. The developer's last couple of major releases have seen solid ports, and in many cases, their excl... 'The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned' gets its own site 13 November 24? Why, that's next week! In the rush of recent releases, I had almost forgotten about my beloved Borderlands and its premier downloadable content pack, "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned." ... Crazy enough to work: Left 4 Dead campaigns in L4D2 17 In this episode of "Adventures in Batsh*t Insane PC Gamer Trickery," we get to see how a conversion of Left 4 Dead to the Left 4 Dead 2 standard is done. Someone was crazy enough to bring the fir... Modern Warfare 2 becomes huge PC success 65 Despite all the complaints, controversies and nerd rage surrounding PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Infinity Ward has officially declared that it sold more than the original game, i... Left 4 Dead 2's Midnight Riders have a blog and stuff 27 Following on from our discovery of a Midnight Riders teaser site, we've just been tipped offLeft 4 Dead 2's resident rock band now has a blog, as well as a Youtube channel. Check it out because i... Watch some BioShock 2 deathmatch action 23   Want some straight up, no-bullsh*t, BioShock 2 deathmatch footage? We've got you covered. This new video dresses nothing up, it simply gives you a minute of BioShock 2 multiplayer action. ... Zombies were discussed for Modern Warfare 2 24 Looking to go unconventional with the narrative, the team behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s innards tossed around several fantastic ideas before settling on the series’ familiar... Aliens vs. Predator WILL have dedicated servers 24 Rejoice! Despite doubt having been cast over the presence of dedicated servers in Aliens vs. Predator, developer Rebellion has today announced that the cross-species slaughterfest will support th... Ultimate cheapassery: The 2-hour Torchlight demo 20 Since many of you are like-minded folk, I can only assume you spend a good portion of your days pointing and clicking. I know I do. Why then, are we wasting our precious finger energy performing ... 24 hour contest time GO: For the Glory (PC) 300 Welcome to another 24 hour contest! This time, we're giving away For the Glory - A Europa Universalis Game for the PC. For the Glory is a historical real time strategy game that spans from the y... Here's footage of that hidden detonate-the-nuke MW2 mode 36 Does Global Thermonuclear War ring any bells? It was one of the hidden multiplayer modes in Modern Warfare 2 that Josh told us about just the other day. Having opened up the developer console, w... Is Modern Warfare 2 now banning legitimate buyers? 66 Alright, you're sick of PC gamers whining about Modern Warfare 2 and how they're getting shafted by Activision and Infinity Ward. Dirty pirates and hackers deserve to get shafted, and that's all ... Dragon Age expansion 'Return to Ostagar' announced 26 The Dragon Age: Origins Twitter account doesn’t spread lies like your standard, filthy Elf commoner. Something “cool” was announced this afternoon relating to Bioware’s la... Saboteur 'sent out to die,' Pandemic closure was 'right' 30 It was incredibly surprising to hear that Pandemic -- a studio hard at work on the The Saboteur -- had been eradicated by Electronic Arts during a wave of layoffs. Despite the surprising turn of ... Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5 hitting in December 3 Tales of Monkey Island draws to a close this December with the release of the final episodic chapter on the 8th of next month. Dubbed “Rise of the Pirate God,” Telltale Games has said... Pre-order Aliens vs. Predator, get cool multiplayer skins 20 What's this? A generally worthwhile, rather neat pre-order bonus from GameStop? Praise the heavens! As you can see from the picture above, three multiplayer skins for Aliens vs. Predator can be y... Serious Sam HD has seriously gone gold 18 Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter has gone gold, and is now up for pre-purchase over on Steam. Doing so will allow you to keep a few extra dollars in hand as you wait for the game to unlock on ... Dragon Age: Origins-related announcement coming soon? 24 Something Dragon Age: Origins-related is going down soon.One of the most recent tweets from the official Origins Twitter account is teasing that something “cool” is happening on the m... The Whispered World gets lucky at German Game Dev Awards 6 I've been fascinated with Deep Silver and Daedalic's The Whispered World has looked from the very beginning, and it seems perhaps the rest of the world is equally as thrilled -- the game has garn... Valve says digital pricing can change 'without penalty' 22 Valve's Steam platform is pretty much the biggest player in digital distribution right now. They dominate the market in ways that get Randy Pitchford's underwear in knots. One of the reasons they... Supreme Commander 2 ups the robots vs. robots ante 15 By the time I'm a withered old man, I expect to have 3D board games with battles that unfold similar to the scene presented in this Supreme Commander 2 image. It could be sorta like The Indian in... Lag 4 Dead 2? 122 Left 4 Dead 2 released yesterday and, while its Versus Mode is terrific fun, you'd be hard pressed to find many people able to enjoy it. The game has been hit with massive lag on Xbox Live, despi... Rumor: Scribblenauts 2 and F.E.A.R 3 coming next year 40 If the latest gossip is to be believed, Scribblenauts is going to become a franchise, and it will do so as early as next year! Warner Bros. accidentally let slip its list of 2010 games, with Scri... Midnight Riders teaser site found: Left 4 Dead 2 DLC? 61 Those who have played Left 4 Dead 2's "Dark Carnival" campaign will likely know of The Midnight Riders. They are a fictional rock band that Ellis seems to be rather fond of, and the campaign's fi... BioShock 2 has 'intense violence' and 'f*cking sodomites' 30 That's what we like to hear! The ESRB has rated BioShock 2, and like so many other ESRB ratings, it has made the game sound positively splendid. Summarizing the game's "intense acts of violence,"... Rumor: IWNet giving Modern Warfare 2 players viruses 89 The ghost of dedicated servers continues to haunt Modern Warfare 2, as the flawless IWNet has been apparently struck down with a Trojan virus. Infinity Ward's replacement for dedicated servers ha... Spike's Video Game Award nominations are here! 87 The VGAs may be looked at with cynicism and contempt by a great many among the gamer community, but there's no denying that it's about as mainstream an award show as we're going to get. With that... Modern Warfare 2 pulls in $550 million in five days 28 I'm sure we all knew Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would sell well, but not like this. Activision has revealed that the title has grossed an estimated $550 million worldwide in just the first fi... Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days confirmed 43 Square Enix Europe (formerly Eidos) has today confirmed that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is coming to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC next year. The follow-up to 2007's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, the... A Kingdom for Keflings is getting a PC release 5 The first Xbox LIVE Arcade game with playable Avatars was NinjaBee's A Kingdom for Keflings, a quirky game about bossing around villagers as a giant and looking for hearts buried deep inside the ... New Mass Effect 2 cover art is not the best we've seen 86 Take a gander at the worst cover art this side of the galaxy.Just kidding. I’ve long believed that excellence in cover art wretchedness belongs to whoever was doing the stuff for fantasy au... Pre-order Lost Planet 2, get Resident Evil's Wesker 27 This is the sort of mash-up you dream about but never get to see actually happen. On second thought, Capcom totally did this with the last Lost Planet. Remember Frank West? He was playable in it.... Former Dead Space devs reveal Sledgehammer Games 17 What are Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, former Visceral/Electronic Arts devs who worked on Dead Space, doing for Activision? Well, they're starting their own game studio, of course. We alrea... The BioShock 2 cover art holds a secret (Update) 73 Yep, the box art for BioShock 2 sure does look similar in style and substance to the first ga--whoa. Now wait just a minute! What ... what is that? Look to the left of the Little Sister's head! W... Rumortoid: Modern Warfare 2 has hidden multiplayer modes 47 The first thing many hackers do once gaining access to a games innards is start screwing around. 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