







CORRECTION: Microsoft Flight Sim X in February 2006? OOPS! Subscribers who received an early copy of the February 2006 issue of PC Gamer noticed a major boo-boo: Due to an editing mistake, our announcement of Microsoft Flight Simulator X says that its release date is this February. We **wish** it was coming out that soon, but the actual release date is late 2006. We apologize for the error. MORE>>





PC Gamer Web Store Goes Live! Looking for a great game to play but don't want to make the trek down

to your local EB in the rain and snow? PC Gamer has the perfect solution: We've launched our new PC Gamer Web Store so that you can quickly and painlessly download and play honest-to-goodness hardcore titles like F.E.A.R. (PCG rating: 92%) and Worms Armageddon (PCG rating: 90%). Be sure to check it out!

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PC Gamer Video Podcast 3, Audio Podcast 12 What’s really going on behind the scenes of Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach? For our third video podcast, PC Gamer investigates whether this new MMO will be a breeding ground for Beelzebub’s minions like the pen-and-paper version was purported to be 30 years ago. Think Hillary’s the only one thinking about “the children?” PC Gamer is, too! Watch our intrepid reporter go undercover at a Turbine press event and grill lead designer Ken Troop. He may never be the same again…. MORE>>





PC Gamer Video Podcast 2, Audio Podcast 10 Are you ready for the Zombie Apocalypse? PC Gamer is! Our second video podcast features an exclusive interview with Alex Seropian, creator of the upcoming Stubbs the Zombie (and co-creator of Halo). Alex shows us the latest on his zombie-apocalypse game, and in the spirit of preparing for that apocalypse, the PCG crew updates their plan for turning their offices into a last fortress of humanity against the zombie hordes. MORE>>





PC Gamer Video Podcast! Check out our “pilot” episode of the PCG Video Podcast, available for download here. It’s a video-format show featuring the hosts (that’s us) of your friendly neighborhood PCG audio podcast. (Who can keep up with all these new podcast formats? Answer: Us, baby!) MORE>>





Podcast Update: Episodes 3, 4, and 5 The updates keep on coming! The official PC Gamer Podcast is now up to episode 5, where we take an in-depth look at videogame courses at real colleges. Professor Charley Wilcox of DePaul University gives us a quick course in the future of game design as a college degree and shares his insight on this new academic field. MORE>>





PC Gamer Podcast Episode 2 This week we review some more crazy MMO news out of China, discuss the departure of Electronic Arts’ Don Mattrick, and check in with The Vede about his trip to Microsoft’s future-of-Windows event, Meltdown 2005. Check it out here! MORE>>





PC Gamer hits the netwaves!

Welcome to the first official PC Gamer Podcast. This episode features an interview with esteemed game designer Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. We discuss his newly released Dungeon Siege II, and look ahead to his long-awaited return to the RTS genre, Supreme Commander. Download the podcast now! MORE>>





Star Trek MMO Exclusive Interview We recently scored an exclusive interview with the lead designer of the Star Trek Online massively-multiplayer game -- and we were full of questions for him about this long talked-about project. Our own Gareth Von Kallenbach talks Trek with Glen Dahlgren of Perpetual Entertainment to find out what lies beyond Trek gaming’s final frontier. MORE>>





Last Man Standing Mod for Doom 3 Here’s another update of some of the latest mods that are tickling our fancy and floating our boats. Today, we look at Doom 3’s Last Man Standing, which promises demons oozing through every orifice. Horror sense tingling? Read on. MORE>>





Brothers in Arms: Multiplayer Overview Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is one of our top anticipated games of 2005 not only for it's amazing single player, but also for it's unique multiplayer mode. Developer Gearbox putting an emphasis on differentiating BIA's multiplayer experience from that of other world war 2 deathmatch modes. MORE>>







November 18, 2005 11:16 PM

Greetings from the new EIC Greeting and salutations! Long story short: Dan Morris is out — having recently been promoted to Associate Publisher of PC Gamer — and I’m in. That’s right: they’ve put me (Greg “TheVede” Vederman) in charge of the magazine. MORE>>