PC Games, Reviews, News, Previews, Demos, Mods Patches.By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Remember World of Star.The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Trailer Rental' title='The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Trailer Rental' />The Associated Press delivers indepth coverage on todays Big Story including top stories, international, politics, lifestyle, business, entertainment, and more.You might not instantly associate Drew Barrymore with horror, but the Hollywood veteran has a solid association with the genre, going all the way back to Firestarter.On Monday, the USS Jimmy Carter returned home to Naval Base KitsapBangor, Washington flying a Jolly Roger flag beside the American flag.The Jimmy Carter is America.Craft How about Star.Craft Universe If you remember one of those, you remember them both, because theyre the same game, just renamed after some legal disputes with Blizzard.Even if you dont, you may be excited to know that an early version of the MMO style RPG mod for Star.Craft 2 is out on Battle.Kotaku reports. Read More By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Heres one thing I wont be doing in March of the Eagles, which launches today invading Russia.The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Trailer Floors' title='The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Trailer Floors' />The Spy Who Came In From The Cold TrailersI remember my history classes, and that never ends well.Theres way too many people there, its way too cold, and my Napoleonic era soldiers arent anywhere near ready for that sort of fight.I think Ill go ahead and let them do their own thing while I take the rest of Europe.Read More By Mike Sharkey PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. From case to CPU, my PC ran me roughly 1,2.Perhaps youve noticed 2015 is truly the year of the spy movie.Guy Ritchies The Man from U.N. C. L. E. our review here opens this week, but it is only.The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Trailer JulieIm not exactly the target consumer for Nvidias new monster of a GPU, the 1,0.Ge. Force GTX Titan.Still, I cant help but salivate over the new card Nvidia says it designed for gaming supercomputers.Read More By Mike Sharkey PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Blizz.Con is back. Blizzard unexpectedly canceled its annual show last year to focus on actually making games, much to the chagrin of purple painted night elves everywhere.The convention hiatus will end in November when Blizzard opens the doors to the Anaheim Convention Center for the seventh Blizz.Con. Read More By Matthew Rorie PC Reviews Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Lets get this clear up front Crysis 3 is a better first person shooter than Crysis 2 in almost every way.Gameplay is more robust and varied, the storytelling is more mature, and its often visually stunning.Unfortunately, its also not very ambitious it leans heavily on ideas already established by better games, and as such isnt an especially remarkable experience.Its reach might exceed its grasp in a few key areas, but Crysis 3 is still a largely enjoyable excuse to take a trip to post apocalyptic New York.Read More By Mike Sharkey PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Gamers have learned not to expect much from co op AI companions.Keep up, dont block doorways, and throw out the occasional one liner is about the best we can hope for.Irrational Games will attempt to raise the co op AI bar with its time and space tearing partner, Elizabeth, in Bio.Shock Infinite, and as the latest trailer demonstrates, she will, at the very least, pack a powerful punch.And by punch I mean tornado controlling super power.Read More By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.PM 0 Comments. One of my biggest problems with Far Cry 3 is the complete disappearance of enemies in areas where Ive cleared outposts.I really like the sense of constant danger their presence provides.It seems that others feel the same way, as Ubisoft is implementing a patch that will allow us to reset every last one of them, a feature apparently requested heavily by players.Oh, and theres some other stuff too.Read More By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.PM 0 Comments. Its a good time to be a fan of sword fighting in games.Weve got Chivalry Medieval Warfare, War of the Roses, and now Blade Symphony, as spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun.While the former two are first person shooters, Blade Symphony seems to take the Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast route to sword fighting goodness.That means flips, dives, and flying slashes.Soon, all that goodness will be on Steam.Read More By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. When I was but a young child, my father tried to make me understand the value of a dollar.Ill cut out the middle of the story, but the result of the lesson is my ability to wait until games are on sale before I buy them.This week, GOG. com makes that waiting really pay off, because theyre dropping the prices on a ton of classic games like Myst Masterpiece Edition, The Incredible Machine, and Outcast.Read More By Taylor Cocke PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Look, Dean Rocket Hall.We love Day. Z. We appreciate the mod, and think its pretty great.You really didnt have to go through all this trouble of making the standalone product so darn awesome.The fact that youve been completely remaking the zombie survival shooter from the ground up is completely unnecessary.Oh, you went ahead and did it anyway Well, youre just the best. Setup Ftp Server Linux Redhat Commands . Read More By Katie Williams PC News Feb 1.PM 0 Comments. Gosh the cars in the upcoming GRID 2 are so exquisitely curved and shiny that I kind of want to stick my weathered old Honda Civic in there for character.Then again, Im guessing my humble sedan cant rev quite like the babies in this new gameplay trailer do.Read More By Katie Williams PC News Feb 1.PM 0 Comments. I like how this faction by faction reveal of Total War Rome 2 gets a little more barbaric each time.Weve seen plush feathered headdresses devolve into ankle tattoos on shields and nowPeople are totally wearing dogs on their heads.Say hello to the Suebi, a tribe so barbaric that they seem a okay with sauntering into battle shirtless.Read More By Katie Williams PC News Feb 1.PM 0 Comments. Huggable looking 1.Yeah, thats not what Id have expected to find on the front page of a certain famed torrent website either.Yes, its a videogame promo for Zelda esque indie adventure Anodyne, but its also sort of an interesting remark on the state of videogame piracy.Read More By Katie Williams PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Poor, poor Ace of Spades.The Minecraft meets TF2 concept had such promise, but only managed to scrape up a poor at best rating in Game.Spys review. Will this gangster themed Valentines Day Massacre DLC help at all in patching up our massacred heartsRead More By Katie Williams PC News Feb 1.AM 0 Comments. Got four USB controllers lying around Good.Grab or make some friends, too youll need em all for Moth Kidz, a warm fuzzies inducing indie adventure that explores the power of friendship.Essential Spy Films Indie.Wire. Perhaps youve noticed 2.Guy Ritchies The Man from U.N. C. L. E. our review here opens this week, but it is only one of many secret agent themed films to be popping up Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, is still in theaters Paul Feigs Spy is barely gone onetime Ritchie cohort Matthew Vaughn had his own Kingsman The Secret Service open earlier in the year still to come is Steven Spielbergs Bridge of Spies, which will play the New York Film Festival Hitman Agent 4.Brit TV spinoff movie Spooks the Greater Good and and hmm, what are we forgettingTheres definitely another little under the radar spy flick happening, something low key that no one expects much of oh yeah Spectre.Sam Mendes second Bond film arrives in November to break a bunch of records prior to Star Wars The Force Awakens breaking them all over again come December.READ MORE For Your Eyes Only Watch This 3 Minute Supercut Of Spy Movies.Its an unusually populous slate, but with the genre as massive as it is, and experiencing an upsurge in popularity in recent years it has waxed and waned like the phases of the moon, perhaps we shouldnt be too surprised.And if spy films are having a moment, then its high time we brought you this collection of genre essentials.Our only rules were that we wanted to keep it as close to the spirit of international governmental espionage as possible as opposed to corporate espionage, counter terrorism, Nazi hunting etc, and that where franchises are involved, wed confine ourselves to a single entry per series.So, like a good grappling hook, a poison tipped cane, a tuxedo and a working knowledge of parkour, here are 3.Rue Madeleine 1. The years of decency and honest living Forget all about them.James Cagneys Bob Sharkey doesnt beat around the bush with his new class of secret O7.German agent whom he must suss out.He does so pretty quickly, realizing that Richard Contes Bill OConnell is a little too good to be a beginner, and formulates a plan to feed him false information in lieu of arresting him on the spot.Big mistake. Henry Hathaway helms 1.Rue Madeleine address of the Gestapo offices in France, FYI as only an expert genre director of Westerns and War films knows how.Reinforced with a punchy script by John Monks Jr.Sy Bartlett, and a newsreel narrator who imbues the entire picture in semi doc realism, the actors as much as the screen loves Cagney and Conte take a backseat to the plot mechanics.Obstinately bleak right down to the frantic climax, 1.Rue Madeleine is a spy oldie that still keeps the pulse racing with an impressively realistic take on how grave mistakes can lead to a high body count.The 3. 9 Steps 1.Probably the first truly great Hitchcock picture, The 3.Steps is a gripping, enormously entertaining chase thriller that feels like it could have been made yesterday.Adapted from the seminal 1.John Buchan, the film sees ordinary Canadian Richard Hannay Robert Donat embroiled in an espionage ring after watching a performance at a music hall in London, England.Wrongly identified as a spy and a murderer, he flees London for Scotland, pursued by various agents of the law and the underworldcue the Hitchcock Icy Blonde, played by Madeleine Carroll.More playful than some of the directors other films of the period, its filled with sight gags including Carroll being handcuffed to Donat and dragged every which way that mix nicely with the spy chase suspense thriller narrative, establishing a formula that would serve Hitch well over the decades to come.Donat makes a perfectly dapper, physically impressive lead, who meets mortal peril with debonair quips and self deprecating charm its a shame its his only work with Hitchcock while Carroll is the template for the Hitchcock female lead, sexy, smart and strong willed.The Bourne Ultimatum 2.Jason Bourne In 2.Bond reached his nadir of implausibility while driving around in an invisible car in Die Another Day, Doug Limans The Bourne Identity opened, and blew the tired tropes of the smarmy, weightless, gadget driven 0.Limans film paved the way, but it was arguably subsequent Bourne director Paul Greengrass who really consolidated the new action aesthetic of docu influenced hand held camerawork that lent a nervy, realist immediacy to even the most tortuous of plot turns.In The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, Greengrass achieved a rare symbiosis with the material and with lead Matt Damon as the amnesiac spy, and delivered some brilliantly tense filmmaking, particularly in Ultimatum, with its brilliant, back to basics footchase scenes marking a high watermark for you are there action stakes in a blockbuster.And the actual spying malarkey is twistily compelling too, with Tony Gilroys taut, intelligent scripts bringing Robert Ludlums books thrashing and kicking into the 2.Charade 1. 96. 3 A Hitchcock movie in all respects except it wasnt actually made by Hitchcock, Stanley Donens sexy, funny trifle Charade is a deeply pleasurable confection that might have almost no substance to it, but would still sit happily in the canon for pure charm.Audrey Hepburns lead, Reggie, discovers her husband Charles has been murdered in Paris, with only a charming, mercurial stranger Cary Grant, taking on four different aliases who can save her from or maybe betray her to the three threatening men chasing her, in the shape of James Coburn, George Kennedy and Ned Glass.The story based on a novel originally written as a screenplay, a move that feels like it could have come from the film itself goes through a ridiculous number of twists and turns, but the energy and lightness of touch that Donen brings make the silliness of the story slip down like ice cream its a film built entirely on chemistry, and despite a quarter century age difference, Grant and Hepburn have it in spades.Its the rare example of a film thats more than the sum of its parts, as Jonathan Demme discovered with his leaden remake The Trouble With Charlie, which equates to considerably less.The Deadly Affair 1.Sadly more stodgy than deadly, compared to the previous years The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Sidney Lumets The Deadly Affair is an adaptation of John Le Carrs first novel that tends to drag with its domesticated subplot but still serves as essential espionage viewing for a number of reasons.We get to enjoy a debonair James Mason playing a role he was born for, British intelligence man Charles Dobbs a.Le Carrs notorious George Smiley, renamed for holding rights reasons, as he unravels the mystery of the apparent suicide of a man he thought he understood.Theres nothing quite like watching the cogs of an experienced spys mind turning in calculated silence, and Mason nails it with considerable panache.He almost gets upstaged, however, by Simone Signoret who gives an unforgettable turn as the dead mans mysterious widow.Her monologue on the game of espionage, as she sips her tea in beaten acquiescence, is as much a highlight as the climax in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.Also worthy of note is Quincy Jones jazzy score, which is unlike anything else youll hear in the genre.Enemy Of The State 1.If one needs a primer on the Tony Scott handbook, look no further than Enemy of the State, his frenzied, fabulously entertaining 1.Will Smith, as well as one of the legendary Gene Hackmans last memorable performances.The film opens as many spy pictures before it have, with frowning bureaucrats discussing shadowy secrets in a public park somewhere in Washington D.C. A couple dead bodies and a case of mistaken identity later, and we are rolling, baby.Many spy flicks like to take their time, operating at a leisurely pace so that the audience can properly absorb the procedural elements of the plot.Scott didnt believe in leisure.He also didnt believe in restraint, subtlety or boredom, apparently.Enemy of the State moves at such a blistering pace, rip roaring through its kinetic set pieces including one of the more memorable car chases this side of Ronin that at times, its hard to keep up.The two lead performances keep us grounded, though, and Scotts superb, stylish eye keeps us captivated, even when the plot doesnt make a lick of sense.Eye Of The Needle 1.
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