Comments on: PC Gamer Has Been Allowed Onto The Internet

By: EuGeNiOuS

EuGeNiOuS — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:30:58 +0000

pyro next to abraham lincoln engi, scout’s chilled sitting down imo… he’s almost holding a flame-thrower look-alike

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:10:49 +0000

It's the engy from 40 years earlier, so unlikely to be the same dude. For everyone else, this is the pic we're talking about:

By: Dante

Dante — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:52:44 +0000

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, although the engie is actually looking at the picture in story, which makes it a little odd.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:00:57 +0000

Think the guy on the ground is a scout.

Looks like a runner.

(I’ll admit the only reason I figured out the engie is “Hey! Tesla!”)

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:47:43 +0000

Ahh, they’re blueprints? You’re probably right. I thought they were newspapers, suggesting a courier and hence Scout. The guy sitting down doesn’t seem to have any class-related features, so it all rests on the bag.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:45:00 +0000

Next to Lincoln, I mean.

By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:44:26 +0000

Sorry to be unable to respond on twitter, but the original Engie is obviously the dude with the natty little mustache, Nick Tesla hisself.

Of course, the real one didn’t use blueprints, but the real Lincoln used a rocket launcher instead of a flamethrower, so there you go.

By: Parody

Parody — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:50:11 +0000

*makes
sorry

By: Parody

Parody — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:49:56 +0000

Your title make it sound as if it was a bad idea.

By: Amadeus

Amadeus — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:37:06 +0000

Your piece seems suspiciously similar to those Guardian football reports. It works wonderfully, though.

By: EthZee

EthZee — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:30:42 +0000

This new site looks pretty damn good. I stopped getting PC Gamer a year or two ago, sadly (I am no longer able to play the latest PC Games, and since I got a PS3 *gasp* I have been more interested in the more broad magazines like GamesTM or Edge), but I still do like to read about new PC games and I would not see a problem with adding this to my bookmarks.

And you’ve got a proper forum, as well!

By: dual_barrel

dual_barrel — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:37:03 +0000

@Jaz,

I myself haven’t seen the game-engine name in Gamespot, IGN but I see it in the wikipedia pages for every game. So, I thought that would be a nice addition.

Yes, your format is right.

And as to why it’s important to me is because being a PC gamer I’m always concerned about the performance of the game rather than the shiny graphics. So, with the engine being the ultimate authority of the game performance, the name of the engine can give you a lot of idea (whether it’s entirely a new one, whether it’s licensed, how popular/how many games have used it successfully, the average FPS you can get from it, etc) of what to expect from the upcoming game.

I would like to see the projected release date (if it’s not taken into account already, i.e.) as an addition to the above format.

Thank you.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:00:23 +0000

@dual_barrel: We try to tag the devs and publishers whenever it’s applicable, but we’ve never done that with game engines. You mean like, Oblivion, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, Gamebryo, right? If it’s something you want to see more, I can definitely start sneaking it in – why is it important to you?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:54:52 +0000

Yeah, one or two people have had that. It’s actually not redirecting you, it’s just a glimpse of the past – for whatever reason, you’re getting the old DNS info. I don’t really understand how that happens, but I think it can be your ISP’s fault. The only thing you can try your end is flushing your DNS cache, like so:

“Sounds like you might need to flush your DNS cache. Click on the Start button, the click on Run. In the box that pops up, type cmd. A DOS window should open up. Type ipconfig /flushdns at the command prompt ( usually C:/)and hit return. Then try http://www.pcgamer.com again.”

By: Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:24:45 +0000

@Aftershock: I think you are having the same problem I am, the link is redirecting North American readers to the US PCG site, which is basically “subscribe now!”

By: EGTF

EGTF — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:23:05 +0000

I love seeing PCG having an internet voice, plus Jaz and Senior’s brilliance open to a wider audience.

Congratulations on the hard work!

By: dual_barrel

dual_barrel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:55:07 +0000

Best PC gaming editorial site ever. Thanks, you guys.

Could you guys please mention the developer name, publisher name and game engine name for each game in their respective pages?

It’s a bummer finding these out from Google separately, every time.

By: Octaeder

Octaeder — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:52:04 +0000

“the jaunty James tribute blog?”

Truer than ever considering they’ve just posted that Deus Ex – Recut video.

By: SimonHadSaidHi

SimonHadSaidHi — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:59:54 +0000

looks britching!! Good work!
keep updating and i’ll make sure to read every article there!

By: Hell

Hell — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:00:53 +0000

Great! I have been bored with Gamespot and IGN for a long time.

So, Tom, I’ve this question: How is PCGamer going to earn money through this site, given that people get to read everything right off the bat?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:24:55 +0000

Nope, it’s open to all. Having any trouble?

By: Aftershock

Aftershock — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:35:02 +0000

can you only see it if you’re a subscriber?

By: TooNu

TooNu — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:38:59 +0000

Hey Tom.
First I want to say that Deus Ex 3 IS going to be amazing, I’m saving my spending money for PC upgrades so I can run it on a new flashy monitor aswell no doubt.
Second, Deus Ex is amazing and 10 years old today. I hope everyone had a Deus Ex month or week or even a couple of days/afternoon whatever and played it.
Third and lastly, the new site is AWESOME. I appreciate the constant flow of updates and the articles have so far been interesting enough for me at least to read through.
Cheers
TooNu

By: Wesman

Wesman — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:42:00 +0000

New sites much, MUCH better than the old one.

Still, I hate that you have to change pages on the articles. It’s a terrible LOOK-AT-MORE-ADS, ploy.

By: Jaz

Jaz — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:20:53 +0000

Transformice is in English! Nobody believes me!

By: Mikepants

Mikepants — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:14:31 +0000

“RPS? Oh, you mean the jaunty James tribute blog?”

Oooh. Buuuurnnned.

Fo’ serious though. The new PCG site kicks arse. And being like 2 weeks old its already better than 90% of ‘PC gaming news and games coverage’ sites.

The other 10% being RPS and sites of that calibre.

By: Octaeder

Octaeder — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:26:03 +0000

New site’s looking great! Plus, unlike the old one, it has an RSS feed so I don’t have to remember to check it periodically.

It was actually a really good site to have around for E3 because it didn’t delve too far into pointless minutiae, unlike every other gaming site.

By: 1stGear

1stGear — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:58:00 +0000

Whoops, shame there isn’t an edit or reply function. In addition, a SomethingAwful poster by the name of Gibbed wrote a script to force an English version of Transformice, if you can’t read French or just have a severe aversion to it.

lljk.net/mice

The devs has mentioned that they are planning on doing an official English site eventually.

By: 1stGear

1stGear — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:53:35 +0000

Its worth noting that Transformice has been made entirely by two French guys as a hobby, had made fifty-some-odd people playing at any time until about a week ago, and that they are currently getting rushed by every Internet community on the web, causing their servers no small bit of strain. Please donate to them.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:52:34 +0000

RPS? Oh, you mean the jaunty James tribute blog?

Thank you both kindly. I’m actually surprised we haven’t had much trouble on the forums – I knew PCG readers were a nice lot, but I thought every new forum had a subculture of people who sign up just to bitch about it.

By: IvanHoeHo

IvanHoeHo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:06:44 +0000

Mmmmmm…. Project Dust makes my want to play Populous: The Beginning again. It’s probably actually crap, though; childhood memories and all that.

Oh, and congrats on your website not being crap anymore! Makes a great RPS tribute blog.

By: The_B

The_B — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:14:36 +0000

There can be no bigger salute Sir, for the sterling work you (and indeed the team) have put into the site, especially with the double edged sword of having to launch during E3 week. I’m obviously heavily biased, but the new PCG site is so far looking like it’s a huge success. A fist bump large enough to create a black hole in the Universe of Awesome right from me, especially with your constant promptness at tackling issues swiftly when they’re brought up either by myself directly via IM or from others on the forum.