{"id":20665,"date":"2018-07-10T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=20665"},"modified":"2018-07-17T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T03:15:17","slug":"games-for-windows-june-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/07\/10\/games-for-windows-june-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Games for Windows (June 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGames_For_Windows%2F2007-06&amp;twg_show=Games+for+Windows+-+June+2007-068.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Games-for-Windows-June-2007-068-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"games-for-windows-june-2007-068\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FGames_For_Windows%2F2007-06&amp;twg_show=Games+for+Windows+-+June+2007-068.jpg\">Computer &amp; Video Game Magazines &#8211; Games for Windows &#8211; June 2007<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Games for Windows was the successor to Computer Gaming World and at just over a decade old, it barely fits the criteria for &#8220;retro&#8221; (my criteria anyway).<\/p>\n<p>The June 2007 issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Editorial<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; You may wonder why we&#8217;re doing another World of WarCraft cover. Our senile editor-in-chief tries to focus long enough to explain why. However, deep inside, he&#8217;s really just thinking about chocolate. And marbles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to reader mail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Start<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; We&#8217;ve got the scoop on Hellgate: London&#8217;s MMO-style subscription scheme &#8211; and why it&#8217;s not an MMO &#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>GFW Live<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 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?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Inside Blizzard&#8217;s World of WarCraft<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 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&#8217;s newest content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Extend<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Our angry reviews editor offers up some constructive criticism of Guild Wars, our casual-games columnist gets hooked on PopCap&#8217;s Preggle Deluxe, and our favorite dueling duo wages war in Command &amp; Conquer 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Reviews<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; At long last, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl makes its way out of development hell&#8230;and it&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tech<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Greenspeak<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; The world&#8217;s foremost expert on fun finally shares his theories on the subject. We&#8217;re expecting a Pulitzer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Computer &amp; Video Game Magazines &#8211; Games for Windows &#8211; 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 &#8220;retro&#8221; (my criteria anyway). The June 2007 issue includes: Editorial\u00a0&#8211; You may wonder why we&#8217;re doing another World of WarCraft cover. Our senile editor-in-chief tries to focus long enough to explain why. However, deep inside, he&#8217;s really just thinking about chocolate. And marbles. Letters\u00a0&#8211; Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to reader mail. Start\u00a0&#8211; We&#8217;ve got the scoop on Hellgate: London&#8217;s MMO-style subscription scheme &#8211; and why it&#8217;s not an MMO &#8211; 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\u00a0&#8211; 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&#8217;s World of WarCraft\u00a0&#8211; Behind closed doors at Blizzard, we learn stories about the creation of the most successful MMO to date. Plus, get the early word [&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":[3248,2362,2524,1934],"class_list":["post-20665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-games-for-windows","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}