Bully: Scholarship Edition

Bully: Scholarship Edition was developed by Rockstar Vancouver and ported by Rockstar New England. Friends? You and me?

Rise of the Argonauts

Rise of the Argonauts is a 3rd person action RPG brought to you by Liquid Entertainment (who also made the nice warcraft clone, Battle Realms, in 2001) in the last month of 2008. Throughout the game you will meet other characters who will join you as argonauts. They will stay with you on your ship. When you leave the ship, you can pick who you want to accompany you. This is similar to games like KOTOR and Mass Effect. This game received above average review scores. Some people have complained that the game has way too many dialog and not enough action. I think that's not fair.

Planescape: Torment

Planescape: Torment is a top-down RPG made by Black Isle Studios (closed in 2003) and released in 1999. This game focuses more on the story telling (the 'role playing' part of RPG) than fighting. It has some really nice and funny dialogs delivered in both voice and text. You can avoid many combat situation by talking your way out of it. Which is pretty nice. The game received very high review scores but didn't sell too well. I was hoping for a sequel after I played through it the first time on my old junky computer way back when.

2008 WSGF Awards

As a celebration of our 5th Anniversary, we have decided to bestow our first set of annual awards upon deserving developers and publishers. Three separate awards are being presented - Field of Vision, Narrow Minded and Game of the Year.

Even though many games now offer native widescreen resolution support, proper FOV support and HUD scaling are far from universal. To help evangelize and encourage proper implementation in widescreen and Surround Gaming scenarios, the WSGF seeks to recognize those developers who represent the best and worst examples of widescreen support.

Arx Fatalis

What can one say about Arx Fatalis? It's a 1st person RPG from way back (originally released in 2002) made by Arkane Studios (same folks who did "Dark Messiah of Might and Magic"). It was meant to be Ultima Underworld III but due to not being able to secure a license became its own game. I'm glad it's not tied to an existing franchise. It uses a skill based system as well as requiring the player to use mouse gestures to cast spells. The game is in the same vein as Morrowind/Oblivion but is much, much smaller in scale than either.

TimeShift

TimeShift is a FPS created by Saber Interactive released in 2007. This game is noteable for allowing the player to manipulate time. It also received mostly above average review scores.

Empire Earth III

Empire Earth III is the third in the series of Empire Earth RTS games developed by Mad Doc Software (now Rockstar New England) and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is by far the least liked in the series by fans with (devastatingly) low review scores across the board.

Spore

Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore. Covering many genres including action, real-time strategy, and RPG, the game allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture.

13 Surround Gaming World of Warcraft Videos Uploaded in 720p HD to YouTube

With the recent WOW updates, it now properly supports Hor+. To showcase the proper FOV, I've uploaded a Surround Comparison video for each of the opening cinematics. There are 13 individual cinematics showing the difference between 1680x1050 and 3x1680x1050. Additionally, I have created a montage for all of the Alliance cinematics, and for all of the Horde cinematics.