QuesterX reviews the first 15 hours of Rift

May 30, 2011 in Featured, Games, PC/Mac, Review

It may well have taken us quite some time to get this review live (sorry Quester), but it’s still relevant and well worth the read. QuesterX is a seasoned massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG for acronym-loving folk) player, and he’s poured all of his wisdom and pinch of his malice into this Rift review. If you’re sick of World of Warcraft and want to see what other developers are trying to do to capture your MMORPG attention, read on! If you’re not into this sub-genre of gaming then read it anyway… Quester knows his shit. Read the rest of this entry →

QuesterX reviews three StarCraft II mods

May 16, 2011 in Featured, Games, PC/Mac, Review

At Blizzcon 2010 one of Blizzard’s announcements related to four mods that they were bringing out for StarCraft II. Many, many months later, the beta test models for three of the four mods turned up in the Blizzard map listing. Recently the official, final cuts for three of the mods have been released, replete with achievements and portrait rewards.

The mods are Aiur Chef, StarJewelled and Left 2 Die. Read the rest of this entry →

QuesterX presents another StarCraft II update

March 28, 2011 in Featured, Games, News

While the core three of DLC get a little bit bonkers about certain gaming genres and specific titles within these groups, none of us have really embraced the impending doom of the worldwide phenomenon otherwise known as StarCraft II. That’s where our good friend QuesterX swings in to save the day with all the latest news from the StarCraft II competitive gaming arena that you need to know. Forget about the sort of money you can make off Counter-Strike or Halo, StarCraft II is where the real money is at. QuesterX takes the time to break it all down for you after the jump. Read the rest of this entry →

QuesterX presents StarCraft II, E-sports and the Meta game

March 6, 2011 in Featured, Games, Opinion, PC/Mac

Since I appear to be the only person here at DLC-Live who knows anything about StarCraft II (for the rest of this article SCII) let alone loves it, I thought I would start giving the boys, and you guys, a bit of an insight into what is fast becoming the largest and certainly the most profitable E-sport in the world. For those that are unfamiliar with the term ‘E-sport’ I am talking about people who play SCII professionally and definitively shift the ‘Meta game’ in a way that trickles down even into the lower leagues where people like myself dwell. Read the rest of this entry →

Review: Call of Duty: Black Ops (multiplayer)

December 31, 2010 in Featured, Games, PC/Mac, PS3, Review, Xbox 360

After being addicted to Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s multiplayer since its release, and massively underwhelmed (read: epically disenchanted) by Medal of Honor’s promising-on-paper-but-ultimately-disappointing multiplayer component, I had high hopes for Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer. As fans of the show will know, I had the privilege of being the only Australasian journalist to be flown over to LA earlier in the year for a super-secret Black Ops competitive multiplayer hands-on event. I couldn’t rave enough about the game then, and that was only a relatively small taste of what was on offer. Read the rest of this entry →

User Opinion: BlizzCon 2010

October 31, 2010 in Featured, Games, Opinion

It happened again
Blizzard, one of the top games developers in the world opened their doors and, like Charlie to the Chocolate factory, gamers waving their golden tickets flocked into the hallowed halls. For three days they were treated to news, games, merchandise, more games and more merchandise and finally Tenacious D. For those reading who don’t know what BlizzCon is, get with the times, yo! It’s a three day event where Blizzard tells the world what it has been doing for the last year, and what it is likely to do in the next six months. Read the rest of this entry →

User Review: StarCraft II multiplayer (part 2)

September 5, 2010 in Featured, Games, PC/Mac, Review

If you haven’t checked out his earlier StarCraft II related pieces, there’s Confessions of a StarCraft addict and the first part of his multiplayer review here…

The hardest part of talking about a multiplayer experience is where exactly to start. I racked my brain to come up with a way to explore the topic while being comprehensive, understandable and entertaining. I decided to break it into bite-size slices [Nachos: And even still, we split it into three!] and explore the different parts independently. Read the rest of this entry →

User Review: StarCraft II multiplayer (part 1)

September 4, 2010 in Featured, Games, PC/Mac, Review

StarCraft is, as far as I know, the only computer game on the planet that has ever been officially classed as a national sport. StarCraft II has some enormous shoes to fill. What made StarCraft such a classic was the way Blizzard managed to get three very distinct races in almost perfect balance. While there have been balanced games before and since, it is usually maintained by only allowing races to have several ‘race only’ troops, all the while keeping the bulk of the force the same. Not so for StarCraft. Each race has its very own flavour and a completely different way of doing things. Read the rest of this entry →

User Opinion: Confessions of a StarCraft addict

September 3, 2010 in Featured, Games, Opinion, PC/Mac

After a fantastic response to his opinion piece, (The allure of the FPS genre) we let fan fave QuesterX run amuck and expertly break down his Starcraft II experience.

Disclaimer: So some of you would have read my recent article which was an opinion piece on FPS gaming. In the article I stated that, without knowing it, I had become an FPS gamer. I related this to the way in which the new generation of FPS games were reaching out, grabbing me by the scruff of my imagination and shaking me… in a good way. And yet here I am writing about StarCraft II. Read the rest of this entry →

User Opinion: The allure of the FPS genre

July 21, 2010 in Featured, Opinion

I frequently send emails to my friends updating them on all the upcoming games hooblah. This usually entails a quick, short, undeniably sweet account from me of why I am excited about the upcoming title, when it is coming out as well as a five-word synopsis of what I understand the game to be about: ‘OMC shooting people in history ZOMG’.

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