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 The NPD Group has released their monthly report of video game sales for the month of October. For the total top 20 games, visit Kotaku; the top 5 are as follows:
1. Fallout 3
2. Spore
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
4. Far Cry 2
5. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
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 I would like to take a little time to thank a few very generous forum members who've recently donated some cold hard currency to the Mod Theater. Your donations are greatly appreciated. With that, I'd like to acknowledge GiffE, Salombo and Lamron as some truly bad ass gents. I'd also like to give a shout out to Escape for all of his hard work in keeping the site a bit fresh.
Last, but not least, I'd like to thank everyone for making the Mod Theater what it is today. If you haven't noticed, we recently past 300,000 posts to become the largest forum on the internet become a moderately sized forum, but a damn fine one to say the least. |
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Also known as the best deal in history, Valve has released the Valve Complete Pack which contains every single Valve game for an astounding $99. Each game purchased separately is $234.81, which amounts to $134.82 in saving. This does include Left 4 Dead and the Orange Box, which sold at retail amounts to nearly the whole Pack price. Treat a friend, or yourself to the Pack from Steam, the list includes the following:
Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Ricochet, Half-Life, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Peggle Extreme
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For a few days now, a demo has been available to people who pre-purchased the game. Now, the demo is available for everyone to enjoy. Rock, Paper, Shotgun also has some new stuff on the game, including a write-up of the Dead Air campaign. For more reading on the game, visit any of these links: Matchmaking Details, Left 4 Dead 411 Preview, Versus Mode, or watch the game's intro movie below. The game releases November 18th.
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 Being that Call of Duty: World at War is officially on the shelves, whats your take on the title? If you've managed to get some time with the beta, what are your impressions? Infinity Ward has done a knock up job at keeping the franchise popular, but now its time for Treyarch to prove themselves worthy. Also, happy waiting to all of those doing the whole stand-in-line-till-midnight thing. |
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 Electronic Arts has been served yet another law suit in their constant DRM battle. At some point you have to calculate how much money is being spent in court versus the money you potentially save from pirates.
Lodged in federal court for the Northern District of California, both complaints whinge about EA's inclusion of SecuROM digital restrictions management (DRM) software with its games. One of the lawsuits cites a component of Spore and the other names a Sims 2 title. Richard Eldridge of Pennsylvania alleges that Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition secretly installed SecuROM on his PC without his knowledge or consent, an action that he calls "deceptive and unlawful."
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 On Monday, THQ announced the next installment to their World War II strategy game, Company of Heroes, dubbing it Tales of Valor. I have never played CoH, but Tales of Valor is looking to bring more of the same to the table but will bring some new features, such as direct fire, and new multiplayer modes. Read more from here or the official Company of Heroes site.
THQ today (Monday) announced Company of HeroesŪ: Tales of Valor™, the next standalone chapter in the widely acclaimed real-time strategy (RTS) franchise, is currently in development for Windows PC. Featuring three intense campaigns, brand-new multiplayer modes and an innovative “direct-fire” feature that allows even more tactical control during the heat of battle, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor will immerse players in some of the most historic, tide-turning clashes of World War II. Internally developed by Relic Entertainment, the game is currently scheduled for release in spring 2009.
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 Barack Obama has easily defeated John McCain in the race, winning the electoral college 349-147; making him the first African American president in United States history. The final popular vote was 62,302,690 million votes for Obama (52%), and 55,268,212 million votes for McCain (46%). We have yet to know if Obama can take the United States for the better and pull us out of an economic crisis. You can read more on the story anywhere, but Yahoo! is always good. You can watch Obama's victory speech here, and McCain's concession speech here. Hopefully he can live up to all of this "change" he promised. |
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Yes, you read that correctly. Audiosurf is now available for purchase from Steam for an astounding low price of only $2.50. That is less than that cheeseburger meal you had for lunch today.
Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.
Audiosurf on Steam includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable "Still Alive" surfing and more. In addition, Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage the recently announced Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages.
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 The release date of Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed until December 2nd according to IGN If you are unsure as to whether or not you can run the game when it is released, check out what the system requirements are. Read the full article here: IGN.com
US, October 30, 2008 - Rockstar has delayed the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV to December 2. Even though the console versions of the critically-acclaimed shooter were released back in April, the PC version was originally set for a November launch.
While Rockstar did not give any reasons for the delay, GTA IV for the PC will feature new enhancements and additions over its console counterparts. Not only has the game been configured for the mouse and keyboard controls, but the PC version will allow players to turn the city's traffic density up, and will feature graphical updates like better draw distances.
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 Electronic Arts has released a press statement revealing to the public that it has lost $310 million in the last quarter and also plans to cut six percent of its employees. However, the company also posted earnings up 40% to $840 million due in large part to Spore and Madden 09. Read more from Yahoo!
"Considering the slowdown at retail we've seen in October, we are cautious in the short term," said John Riccitiello, chief executive, in a statement. "Longer term, we are very bullish on the game sector overall and on EA in particular."
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 Attempting to hit the jackpot with a successor to it's ever-popular Razor phone, Motorola has announced a new phone with a hefty price tag of $1999. Whoa! What makes this thing so expensive? Read more from Yahoo! Way overpriced and looks pretty hideous if you ask me.
So, what exactly does two grand get you? A 16 million color, fully-circular LCD display (first ever in a cell phone, according to Motorola), a 62 Carat lens crafted out of sapphire for scratch resistance, a stainless steel exterior with etched designs that takes two weeks to fabricate, a Swiss-manufactured bearing for the swivel, 700+ individual components, PVD coating (similar to high-end watches), and an all aluminum keypad.
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The Call of Duty World at War beta is now available. You can download it here from Filefront or check out these links courteous of Neillomax.
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Some of you may remember Ryan Miller stopping by my site after I left a comment on his temporary blog.
Ryan works for Microsoft as their PC Gaming Apostle under the Games for Windows/Games for Windows Live business unit. After he introduced himself into our forums, I had the pleasure of talking with him over the phone and came to the conclusion we finally have someone at Microsoft who is on our side and will be working for the PC Gaming customer. :salute:
Ryan let me know that his official site has gone live and his email box is open (you asked for it Ryan!).- Ryan's official site entitled: Socrossblog
- Ryan's official email address : ryan - (@) - socrossblog.com
I think we're all looking forward to finally getting some recognition from within Microsoft to help show developers and publishers that the PC gaming customer means business, not just piracy.
Thanks Ryan! |
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 The minds over at Microsoft are readying up the next service pack for Vista, sending it into beta testing next week with a public release following shortly after that. Service Pack 2 will bring to the table everything featured in SP1 along with some new features aimed to increase support for new hardware and technology. Microsoft is also set to reveal Windows7 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week. The major highlights of the new Service Pack are as follows, read more here:
- The introduction of Windows Search 4.0 said to speed up searching and deliver better keyword relevancy
- The addition of the Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack, which will support emerging Bluetooth technology
- The added ability to record data to Blu-Ray disks directly within the operating system
- Improved WiFi setup with changes to Windows Connect Now Vista's network configuration tool designed to detect and configure wireless devices.
- Better time zone-safe file synchronization with new support for the exFAT file system, which allows for UTC timestamps.
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