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RPS Demands: 10 Things All PC Games Should Do

Written by Alec Meer on September 29, 2008.

Less a manifesto, and more a notverymanlyfesto, as this is very much a tech-centric list. If you want thoughtful game theory, you’ve got the wrong nitpicker.

The PC is the best gaming platform in the world - but it could be better still. While it’s great that the PC doesn’t have to suffer quite the same degree of standardisation as its locked-down console brethren, we have nevertheless fallen into certain patterns of how we game. There are things we take for granted and thus expect, like WASD controls in FPSes and patches for bad bugs. There are others still we should be able to take for granted, but can’t because the same damn-fool oversights happen again and again. Even outside of the more obvious annoyances like referring to Xbox controls or including ridiculously draconian DRM (which are both more a question of money than of thoughtlessness), a ton of stuff that any gamer could have told the developer was a glaring screw-up keeps on turning up in otherwise great games. Here are just 10 of the worst offenders, 10 things that every single modern PC game should get right and has no excuse not to. Please do suggest others in comments below.

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Games We’ll Never Know

Written by John Walker on April 21, 2008.

Cracked.com have put together a list of 10 Highly Anticipated Video Games You’ll Never Get To Play. And it contains just enough PC games for a link from us. Bemoaning the lost of games like StarCraft Ghost, Star Trek Online, Darkfall, and inevitably Duke Nukem Forever.

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