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  • Games For Windows (January 2008)

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    Source: Games For Windows – Issue Number 14 – January 2008

    Coming in at just over 10.5 years old, the January 2008 issue of Games For Windows is barely what I consider retro. Then again, the Nvidia 8800GT as the best $250 graphics card does seem like a long time ago. This issue includes:

    Cover Story

    • Day of Reckoning – This holiday season’s game deluge makes for our biggest reviews lineup ever: a whopping 30 pages, covering everything from Crysis to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to Hellgate: London to Universe at War: Earth Assault to SimCity: Societies. Plus, a trio of postmortem Q&A interviews with game developers to round out this month’s extra-special reviews extravaganza.

    Departments

      • Editorial – “Why so low?” Jeff ponders why some folks seem to think 8 out of 10 is a “bad” review score. (Short answer: They’re idiots!)
      • Letters – Readers share their thoughts on when it’s OK to spoil and how Half-Life 2: Episode Two is really just a game of “defend the flag!”
      • Start – Batman gets Lego-ized, Sam & Max gets a second season, Lost gets…uh, lost, and shooter savants get their grubby mitts on your hard-earned cash.
      • Extend – While casual games columnist Robert Coffey rocks out with a handy Guitar Hero alternative, MMO columnist Cindy Yans tries her hand at crafting, and Tom and Bruce go head-to-head in Armageddon Empires.
      • Tech – “Which graphics card to I buy?” is an age-old question among gamers. We address it in this month’s Tech section – and the answers may surprise you.
    • Greenspeak – In 2009, editor-in-chief Jeff Green is going to resolve to be less of a jerk. Too late for this issue, though, in which he offers New Year’s resolutions for everyone but himself!

    …and more!


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  • Games for Windows (June 2007)

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    Source: Computer & Video Game Magazines – Games for Windows – June 2007

    Games for Windows was the successor to Computer Gaming World and at just over a decade old, it barely fits the criteria for “retro” (my criteria anyway).

    The June 2007 issue includes:

      • Editorial – You may wonder why we’re doing another World of WarCraft cover. Our senile editor-in-chief tries to focus long enough to explain why. However, deep inside, he’s really just thinking about chocolate. And marbles.
      • Letters – Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to reader mail.
      • Start – We’ve got the scoop on Hellgate: London’s MMO-style subscription scheme – and why it’s not an MMO – along with Mythos, the free online game that Hellgate spawned. Plus: Spore goes under the microscope; flight-sim wizard Oleg Maddox shares his secrets; and how to score some free games.
      • GFW Live – We sit down with Microsoft Games head honcho Peter Moore to discuss bringing Live to the PC. Is there more to it than Halo 2 Achievements and Shadowrun?
      • Inside Blizzard’s World of WarCraft – Behind closed doors at Blizzard, we learn stories about the creation of the most successful MMO to date. Plus, get the early word on the game’s newest content.
      • Extend – Our angry reviews editor offers up some constructive criticism of Guild Wars, our casual-games columnist gets hooked on PopCap’s Preggle Deluxe, and our favorite dueling duo wages war in Command & Conquer 3.
      • Reviews – At long last, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl makes its way out of development hell…and it’s worth the wait. Also this month: The Elder Scrolls IV world gets a little bit bigger thanks to the all-new Shivering Isles expansion, and Christmas comes early for flight-sim geeks in the form of IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
      • Tech – Eager to play PC games on the go? This month, our second installment in a three-part series breaks down everything you need to know before you buy a mobile gaming rig.
    • Greenspeak – The world’s foremost expert on fun finally shares his theories on the subject. We’re expecting a Pulitzer.

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  • Games For Windows (February 2008)

    Posted on by Azrael Comment

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    Source: Games For Windows – February 2008

    Games for Windows is the result of Microsoft buying Computer Gaming World. Fortunately, the content did not actually change much with the change in ownership because CGW was an excellent magazine. However, magazines were dying at this point and Games for Windows did not last long.

    I generally consider 10 years to be the cutoff for calling something retro but this is by no means a strict rule. Some people say games that are two game system generations or older fit the criteria for retro however this is harder to pin down with computer games. This magazine is just over ten years old. Looking at the contents below do you think it is retro?

    Cover Story

    • Demigod – Chris Taylor’s Powered Games breaks several rules while working on its new fantasy action-RTS title. Can the team create a hardcore game for the non-hardcore crowd and pull it off without a publisher’s support?

    Departments

    • Editorial – Jeff takes the remarkably brave and controversial position that free games are good. Way to take a stand, chief!
    • Letters – You’ve got letters. We’ve got snarky responses.
    • Start – This month’s Start section brings Delay of Game, a case study on a variety of famously delayed or canceled games. Also: A sneak peak at the next Tomb Raider game, and an examination of Sim-City: Societies’ ecological agenda.
    • Free Games – Great PC gaming doesn’t have to break the bank. Our resident mooches found 52 great freebies. Play one a week until 2009 – or just blow ’em all at once in a gratis gaming binge.
    • Reviews – Unreal Tournament 3 and Tabula Rasa are both released from their centuries-long growth chambers, and we’ve got the final verdicts. If that ain’t your thing, kick back with the colorful critters in Viva Piñata or witness the terrifying spectacle that is BlackSite: Area 51
    • Extend – Tom and Bruce go in for some Gears of War, our casual games columnist goes to bullet hell, we examine the machinations of MMO guild recruitment, and the GFW staff sounds off on PC gaming’s most tragic cancellations.
    • Tech – Nothing screams “sexy” like CPUs…so this month, we look at the big brains behind your games. We run AMD’s Phenom processors through the paces and kick the tires on Intel’s next powerhouse.
    • Greenspeak – One man speaks out against console ports. The world gasps.

    Game Index

    • Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
    • Alone in the Dark
    • Auto Assault
    • Battlecruiser 3000AD
    • Beowulf
    • BlackSite: Area 51
    • Bullet Candy
    • Daikatana
    • Demigod
    • Empires in Arms
    • EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark
    • Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess
    • Gears of War
    • Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising
    • Huxley
    • Imperator
    • Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
    • The Lord of the Rings Online
    • Napoleon’s Campaigns
    • Neon Wars
    • Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of Illuminus
    • Prey
    • Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War
    • Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
    • SimCity: Societies
    • SiN Episodes
    • Soldier of Fortune: Payback
    • Tabula Rasa
    • Team Fortress 2
    • Tomb Raider: Underworld
    • Ultimat Online 2
    • Unreal Tournament 3
    • Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
    • Viva Piñata
    • WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans

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