http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ The hottest info on PC gaming, hardware, and news from Matt Peckham en-us mattpeckham@mac.com 2008-05-15T17:24:43-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006968.html April can be the cruelest month, but not if you're Nintendo, which managed to sell 714,000 Wiis bolstered by hot-ticket games like Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and Wii Play. Also not if you're Rockstar, whose Grand Theft Auto... Matt Peckham 6968@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-15T17:24:43-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006963.html Shrugging off losses a year ago, Sony capped its Blu-ray sales driven PS3 comeback in recent months by posting a $277 million profit for its fourth fiscal quarter on Wednesday. Full year profits tripled to a company record $3.5 billion,... Matt Peckham 6963@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-15T05:53:24-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006959.html You know how E3's dead (long live E3!) and all the game publishers were supposed to veer off and stage their own annual "personalized" media events? Well EA held its annual "Spring Break" games showcase on Monday night in San... Matt Peckham 6959@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-14T11:44:16-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006953.html I'm just back from leaping, rolling, tumbling, building, battling, and bullwhipping my way through the first level of Traveller's Tales' just-released LEGO Indiana Jones demo. The demo lets you play through the opening scene from the first movie, the sequence... Matt Peckham 6953@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-13T12:19:25-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006949.html A little deceptively gloomy news this morning about Dell discontinuing four of its high-end XPS game PCs. Travis Hudson has a note in Today @ PC World about Dell's latest seemingly retrograde move, pointing out I think rightly that it... Matt Peckham 6949@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-13T08:57:52-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006942.html Add to that US sales prediction overall game sales soaring 113 percent to $830 million for April courtesy Grand Theft Auto IV, Mario Kart Wii, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. An amazing April, in other words. Riding high: Nintendo's Wii and... Matt Peckham 6942@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-12T16:18:30-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006933.html This week: Race 18 of Ford and Land Rover's toughest off-road trucks, 4x4s, and SUVs, or break out your armchair baseball caps and spittoons. Welcome to middle-May, PC gamers, where it's a great time to be outdoors and away from... Matt Peckham 6933@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-12T09:48:24-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006926.html Let's talk what's annoying about Microsoft's four-layer Intel-rific pee-cee-in-a-box. But first, fuggedabout all that "red ring of death" rumpus. After all, if your 360 croaks, you get a new one. Free. In a week, or at most, two. I'm double... Matt Peckham 6926@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-09T12:15:17-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006921.html Joy of joys, and I mean that in every sense of the double entendre, it looks like BioShock's set to receive the silver screen treatment. Variety reports Universal and director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Ring, and that... Matt Peckham 6921@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-09T06:31:38-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006916.html I hesitate to weigh in on the inimitable Uwe Boll because his quirks, foibles, and outright gaffes are so paint-blisteringly palpable, but this site's kind of fun, so what the hey. Here's a guy with a doctorate in literature from... Matt Peckham 6916@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-08T18:24:45-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006917.html Covert government-recruited shoppers prowled 253 stores to buy Mature-rated games and were turned down a remarkable 80% of the time according to a just-released FTC survey. That's up dramatically from a 58% turn-away rate in the FTC's 2007 "undercover shopper"... Matt Peckham 6917@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-08T10:18:15-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006912.html I guess we're supposed to jump for cacodemonic joy now that id Software's confirmed what we've known since last August -- that Doom 4's in the offing. Today's emailed news-bomb courtesy Karina Tang confirms Doom 4 finally has a dedicated... Matt Peckham 6912@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-07T12:03:34-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006904.html No joke, according to BioWare's technical producer Derek French, who posted as much to BioWare's forums last Saturday. You may have heard that the PC version of Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires online activation to run. But what you... Matt Peckham 6904@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-07T00:13:59-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006902.html The haunting Ukrainian first-person shooter with the World's Most Annoying Acronym-For-A-Name has a prequel, a release date, and (finally) a publisher. You remember S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? I wrote about the prequel back in July 2007, and the original all the way back... Matt Peckham 6902@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-06T13:05:20-08:00 http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006897.html Someone posting to N4G's news aggregator noticed that CD Projekt has a listing for a PS3 programmer up on its official The Witcher website, fueling speculation that the Poland-based publisher has a console version of its award-winning RPG in the... Matt Peckham 6897@http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/ 2008-05-06T07:15:26-08:00