• Download Dozens of Commercial PC Games Free

  
  Where do computer games go when they die? Nowhere, if you know where to look.

• Nielsen's Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008

  
  Never mind the 360, Wii, and PS3, because Sony's PlayStation 2 beat them all in average minutes used during 2008.
• Calling All Massively Multiplayer Online Game Players
• What Apple Can Teach Nintendo and Sony
• The Wii Scream Heard Round the Blogosphere
• Do-It-Yourself Free Xbox 360 Wireless
• 15 Reasons PC Gaming Beats All
• PlayStation 3's New Problem: Censorship
• 5 Unorthodox PC Games to Watch in 2009
• Mac Games in 2009: What to Watch for

Gaming How-Tos

• How to Fix a Pesky Stuck Pixel Before you tote your pixel-speckled flat screen back to the store, consider what a soft cloth, your finger, and a bit of power-fiddling might accomplish.
• Overclock Your Body With Geek Cuisine Can caffeinated chips and drinks stuffed with more herbs than you'd find in an Asian pharmacy really make you more productive? We slurped and chewed our way through lots of so-called energy food to find out.

Gaming News

• Download Dozens of Commercial PC Games Free Where do computer games go when they die? Nowhere, if you know where to look.
• Calling All Massively Multiplayer Online Game Players A call for Mac users who spend free time playing Web-based MMOs.
• Nielsen's Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008 Never mind the 360, Wii, and PS3, because Sony's PlayStation 2 beat them all in average minutes used during 2008.
• The Wii Scream Heard Round the Blogosphere Hysterical child gets a Wii for Christmas and suffers a total meltdown.
• Do-It-Yourself Free Xbox 360 Wireless An Xbox 360 with free wireless? Save yourself up to $100? Read on, true believer.

Gaming Playing in PCW Video

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  Golf Simulation: Take Real Golf Swings at Tokyo Bar A new bar in Tokyo lets golfers swing clubs at real balls after work in a software simulation area.
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  2008 Independent Games Festival Winners Senior Editor Darren Gladstone takes a look at some of the winners of the 2008 Independent Games Awards.
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  Sid Meier Brings Civilization to Consoles The famous franchise comes to Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and DS.

Gaming Slideshows

• 10 Gifts for the Hard-Core Techie Gadgets, kits, and hacks for the geek who has everything.
• The Strangest Sights in Second Life Dimension-traveling slugs with fangs. Walk-through ceilings. Really bad hair. And to think that we saw it in Second Life.
• Video Games: The 12 Best Holiday Bets In this list of the 12 video games of Christmas, we show you the good, the rad, and the (slightly) ugly.

Gaming Reviews

• What Apple Can Teach Nintendo and Sony We name the best iPhone games of 2008, and what Nintendo and Sony can learn from them.
• A Downloader's Gift Guide Times may be tough, but you can still cobble together a quick-and-easy gift on the cheap: Make a PC mixtape from downloads.
• 10 Gifts for the Hard-Core Techie Gadgets, kits, and hacks for the geek who has everything.
• A Redneck Rampage Is there more to cheap videogames than crummy blue-collar shovelware?
• Überclok Reaktor The Reactor is a speedy system, but a few of Überclok’s design decisions don’t make sense in a PC of this caliber.