You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

How can you go wrong here?! Go grab your copy of these games today. Support indie developers with your wallet. Take that $15 that big corporate demands you to pay for map packs and mini expansions to games you’ve already paid $50 for and give it directly to developers and/or charity instead.

Where other games fall short after a few weeks or months, Eve’s developers, CCP, continue to astonish with their continuously ground breaking game design. Eve is inching toward the decade mark with a solid player base, both young and old - and has recently won top honors as the #1 MMORPG for 2010. Here’s a mix of beginner tips, strategic guides, calculators, and useful information for a few specific aspects of the game.

Sorry console gamers, none for you, but for the true FPS gamer out there that understands the necessity of a mouse and keyboard, here are some console commands you can use when you enable the console.
You can thank AgentGod for doing what the game publishers didn’t have the brains to …

Interesting story lines, chilling realism, humorous dialog, wicked interfaces, re-playability, the list goes on and on. Add them all up and they’re quickly being outpaced by the importance of profit, profit, profit. It’s sad but true. Reading this story about the executive level restructuring at blizzard only reinforces my thoughts. There’s nothing on the surface that screams we need more money from these people!, but the writing is on the wall. Support the developers. Break free from the big box companies’ strangle hold and support the industry from the right end. Check out all the goodness available out there and vote with your dollar because sadly, nothing else really matters.

The Battlefield Bad Company 2 servers were offline while the patches were implemented. Numerous multiplayer issues were addressed along with a few single player campaign not worth mentioning. While their servers were down, EA was directing everyone to check a twitter feed for the latest news.

When you base your decision to buy a game, in this case Battlefield Bad Company 2, on a question such as this, it’s a sure sign of failure. Pfheww… I was worried there for a minute. Call of Duty could have started a bad trend in FPS gaming on the PC. But alas, Battlefield is better than COD on so many levels.

MyInternetServices.com is having a Battlefield Bad Company 2 contest this month during the Beta release. It started on February 9th and ends the day the beta expires. Each week, they will give a prize to the beta player that accumulates the most dog tags. In game, you receive a dog tag for each knife kill you perform. Each week they will be giving away $250 in prize money.

The beta is out right now. You’re stuck with one game type and one map right now, but it’s a big map and, wait for it, the server browser is included. There are hundreds of servers up right now from all over the world. BFBC2 is, without a doubt, 10x better than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

There it is, simple math: BFBC2 > MW2. The only part that worries me is the whole rental-agreement for a dedicated server. Hopefully the mod community will come out in full force after the MW2 debacle. I’d like to host my own private server and have it show up on the public list of private servers. If I have to rely on a 3rd party to host my server, I have no doubt that whatever hacks come out for the game will work on my server. At least I’ll be able to kick hackers and insta-ban them, well, one can only hope.