{"id":24342,"date":"2020-01-29T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=24342"},"modified":"2020-02-05T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:00:33","slug":"games-for-windows-july-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/games-for-windows-july-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Games for Windows (July 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGames_For_Windows%2F2007-07&amp;twg_show=Games.For.Windows.July.2007-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Games.For_.Windows.July_.2007-001-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGames_For_Windows%2F2007-07&amp;twg_show=Games.For.Windows.July.2007-001.jpg\">Games for Windows &#8211; July 2007<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Games for Windows was the successor to the best computer games ever, Computer Gaming World. While the name changed, the content and contributors remained mostly unchanged which was a good thing. However, the magazine only continued for a short while longer. The July 2007 issue includes:<\/p>\n<p>Departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Editorial<\/b> &#8211; What happens when we have the new SimCity and StarCraft II in the same issue? Our EIC&#8217;s head explodes! Literally! It was, like, the grossest thing ever!<\/li>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b> &#8211; You love to hate us and we love that you love to hate us, which makes you love us back. That&#8217;s true love right there. Will you marry us?<\/li>\n<li><b>Start<\/b> &#8211; We&#8217;ve got the straight dope on BioShock, Crysis, Warhammer Online, and a first look at SOE&#8217;s next MMO, The Agency. Plus: How two brothers built a fantasy empire out of ASCII blocks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b> &#8211; Against all odds, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar is actually worth your time and money &#8211; and might even pu you away from World of WarCraft. We sound off on this, as well as ArmA: Combat Operations, Spider-Man 3, and the final episode in Sam &amp; Max&#8217;s first season.<\/li>\n<li><b>Extend<\/b> &#8211; Don&#8217;t you hate those random ninja guild invites and gold-farming spam in MMOs? Columnist Cindy Yans speaks her mind. Also: Tom and Bruce team up to travel the lands of Middle-earth, and the GFW staff chimes in on Blizzard&#8217;s big StarCraft II announcement.<\/li>\n<li><b>Tech<\/b> &#8211; How badly do you need to get your gaming fix to-go? This month, we look at bleeding-edge ultramobile PCs and cell phones. Plus, we review AMD&#8217;s first DX10 graphics card and Gateway&#8217;s sweet 24-inch monitor.<\/li>\n<li><b>Greenspeak<\/b> &#8211; Let&#8217;s hear it for career suicide! Jeff bites the hand that feeds with some griping about GFW Live. Yay!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Review<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>StarCraft II<\/b> &#8211; It took &#8217;em long enough, but Blizzard finally announced StarCraft II at a massive unveiling ceremony in South Korea &#8211; and we were there to scream like girls!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cover Story<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cover Story: SimCity: Societies<\/b> &#8211; The next chapter in EA&#8217;s long-running SimCity franchise is headed in a radical new direction. This month, we take a world-exclusive first look at how developer Tilted Mill plans to renovate the aging series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Games for Windows &#8211; July 2007 Games for Windows was the successor to the best computer games ever, Computer Gaming World. While the name changed, the content and contributors remained mostly unchanged which was a good thing. However, the magazine only continued for a short while longer. The July 2007 issue includes: Departments Editorial &#8211; What happens when we have the new SimCity and StarCraft II in the same issue? Our EIC&#8217;s head explodes! Literally! It was, like, the grossest thing ever! Letters &#8211; You love to hate us and we love that you love to hate us, which makes you love us back. That&#8217;s true love right there. Will you marry us? Start &#8211; We&#8217;ve got the straight dope on BioShock, Crysis, Warhammer Online, and a first look at SOE&#8217;s next MMO, The Agency. Plus: How two brothers built a fantasy empire out of ASCII blocks. Reviews &#8211; Against all odds, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar is actually worth your time and money &#8211; and might even pu you away from World of WarCraft. We sound off on this, as well as ArmA: Combat Operations, Spider-Man 3, and the final episode in Sam &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[2524,1934],"class_list":["post-24342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-retrogaming","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}