Ah, the nostalgia of old games. Need for Speed High Stakes was *the* game of my childhood, and it’s pretty amazing to play it again after all of these years. Games from 1999 don’t run so well on Windows 7, but luckily there are still plenty of people who want to play them, and these people tend to come up with awesome workarounds. Fortunately, this is the case with Need for Speed High Stakes. You too can once again tear up the roads of Landstrasse in pursuit of a speeding Porsche 911 Turbo! More
I’ve played APB off and on for awhile now, seeing its ups and its downs. The toss? Bad, very very bad.
Initially, I saw a lot of pretty neat features in the game, the coolest by far being the character and vehicle customization. The modelling and effects are very good, and the sound is crisp and realistic. The gameplay is also not too bad, but only if you enjoy running and gunning to objectives. More
As I’m flicking through Maximum PC articles, partially looking for something to criticize, I stumble across a really good article about the effect consoles have on PC gaming. Nathan Grayson touches on various weaknesses of the console-influenced PC gaming market, such as the decline of dedicated servers and the rough edges of console-designed games ported to the PC. One of this points is Games for Windows Live. That phrase going through my head makes me cringe — what a Microsoft product! More

