Top 10 PC Games of 2010

2010 was a nice year for PC gamers. It could have been better, but still it was great. Strategy and adventure fans got to play a lot of quality PC exclusives, from Starcraft 2 and Civilization V to Gray Matter and The Whispered World. The indie devs once again proved that they can really surprise us and deliver some amazing games. Titles like Sleep Is Death, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Minecraft and Super Meat Boy are some of the best indie games we got this year.

Sports and racing fans were left behind but thankfully, EA managed to deliver a great PC version of Fifa11 and NBA2K11 from 2K Games is astounding. WRC 2010 was the perfect blend of arcade/sim rally racing and would have made it in our Top10, if only it had more stages and better menus/presentation. Split Second was a hell of a game, Blur was a fan arcade racing and even though F1 2010 was not as sim as we'd hoped to, it was overall a nice game. RPG fans got to play Mass Effect 2, Two Worlds II, Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol, whereas the action fans enjoyed games like Bad Company 2, STALKER: Call Of Pripyat, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

JohnDio Presents The Dark Side Of Trance (Christmas Special Mix) [21-12-2010]

A couple of months ago, I promised you a mix that would be way different than any of my previous mixes. So here it is, as a Christmas gift to all of you. This is the dark side of trance. Leon Bolier, Kosmas Epsilon, Vadim Zhukov, Mike Foyle, Jose Amnesia, Solarstone, John 00 Fleming, Ashley Wallbridge, Robert Nickson, Aurosonic, Markus Schulz and Tom Colontonio in a hell of a mix. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Merry Christmas everyone!



JohnDio Presents The Dark Side Of Trance (Christmas Special Mix) [21-12-2010]


Genre: Prog Trance / Trance
Date: 21-12-2010
Quality: 320kbps
Length: 68:45
Size: 157MB


Tracklist

1. Leon Bolier - That Morning (Album Mix)
2. Kosmas Epsilon - I Trance You (Original Mix)
3. Mike Foyle & DNS Project - Cayo Norte (Original Mix)
4. Vadim Zhukov - Stop The Time (Original Mix)
5. Solarstone & Orkidea - Slowmotion (French Renaissance Extended Mix)
6. John 00 Fleming & The Digital Blonde - Melatron (Original Mix)
7. Jose Amnesia - Out Of Memory (Original Mix)
8. Ashley Wallbridge - Smoke (Original Mix)
9. Robert Nickson & Ruben De Ronde - Superlative (Lodos Remix)
10. Markus Schulz featuring Khaz - Dark Heart Waiting (Club Mix)[JohnDio Breakless version]
11. Aurosonic - Starcraft Anthem (Special For SC2TV)
12. Tom Colontonio featuring Michele Karmin - Colors Of A Tear (Nick Sentience Remix)

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Nail'd PC Performance & Screenshots

Nail'd is the new ATV arcade racing from Techland. We were quite impressed with it, given the fact that Techland doesn't have any experience in this genre. Forget about everything, this is an arcade racing with loose physics and speed. Seriously, Nail'd is the fastest game we've ever played with some insane jumps and amazing tracks. Kudos to Techland for trying something different.

However, Nail'd is cursed by the same damn game mechanics that haunt every arcade racing game. We're talking about the CPU cheats. We were shocked when we played half of the game and didn't encounter any CPU cheating. But alas, at the 3/4 of the campaign, all the 'familiar' CPU cheats come to surface. Opponents are almost invicible, points aren't given even when slamming your opponents or when you push them to brake down their bikes, rubber banding is kicking in and they'll always catch up with you and their touchdowns are flawless. Funny thing is that even when the leader is in front of you and doesn't take the shortcuts to gain points from passing through gates or circles, he'll keep getting points for unknown reasons. It's really sad, because the first half of the game (which doesn't have those 'features') is highly enjoyable.

James Bond Blood Stone PC Performance & Screenshots

There is a curse that haunts every movie-to-game adaptation. Most of them suck. Let's face it, this is true. It's also true that due to the low standards and budgets of those games, companies don't support them for a long time. They don't address major performance issues and they don't fix small bugs. That was the case with Nightlife and Quantum Of Solace. So let's see what happens with Bond's latest game, Blood Stone.

We have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Nvidia has an SLI profile for this game and there is not a 30fps cap this time. The bad news... this is a console port that is CPU bound. So yeah, it's one of 'those' games that you'll need a I7 CPU to enjoy it at its fullest. We tested it with a Q9650 @ 4.2Ghz, 4GB DDR2 and a GTX295. Blood Stone was running most of the time with 60fps at 1080p with 4xAA and max details, although there were rare occasions where the framerate was dropping to 40-50.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit PC Performance & Screenshots

The latest installment of the legendary series, Need For Speed, has just been released. As usual, it's time to see how well the PC version performs and if Criterion did a good job porting the game. Yeah, you read it right. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit for PC is simply a port from the console version, with all the cons of such a thing.

Although there is an option for High Resolution textures, Criterion didn't bother with taking advantage the additional raw power of the latest GPU's. Moreover, Criterion doesn't provide us with a lot of graphical options to adjust the game. FSAA is also not supported, although you can force it if you have an ATI card and Nvidia will likely support it with a better game profile in the next version of ForceWare. Graphically speaking, we have some great lighting effects and amazingly detailed cars. Stages are well designed, although they lack some fining details that would earn them some extra points. You won't notice their absence while driving, but still we'd like more environmental detail. All in all, Hot Pursuit is a nice game but nothing breathtaking!