The Superhero MMO, Champions Online is now free-to-play. You’ll be able to access just about all of the content in this rock ’em sock ’em super slugfest for the low price of nothing! After a year and a half of charging a monthly subscription fee to all players, the game is now divided into Silver Accounts which are the free-to-play members, and Gold Accounts which is the new term for paying a monthly $14.99 fee.
We recently reviewed the first episode of the French Indie game Winter Voices, and enjoyed it quite well. It’s an episodic game which will be released in seven installments priced at five dollars each. Three have been released so far, and the developer Beyond the Pillars has now bundled them together with a twenty percent discount. That’s twelve dollars for the three episodes together; each has a play time of three our four hours.
Dead Space 2 comes out today, but some unfortunate gamers don’t have the money to buy games at sixty dollar launch prices. Fortunately there are plenty of midweek sales to provide cheap entertainment for those paupers who can’t afford a shiny new blockbuster.
Since the first Dead Space game came out in 2008, there have been two animated films, a Wii exclusive adaptation, along with a downloadable arcade game based on the series. With Dead Space 2 coming out this week, lets take a look back at the first installment in this franchise.
Tired of Call of Duty? Tired of brown shootouts grounded in reality? If so, there’s a game you might be interested in during the coming month.Bulletstorm is being released on February 22nd, and Epic Games is hoping for another commercial hit among the likes of Gears of War. Ultimately, you, the consumer will decide that, and hopefully after this preview you will.
2010 was positively bloated with games. The big business of blockbuster games, combined with the ease of distributing downloadable arcade titles, and a thriving indie subculture has left us with more great games than any one person can play. The PC Department staff sat down to sort out the best and worst of the year. Here’s what Charles Battersby, Ari Runanin-Telle and Mark Quinlan came up with for Player Affinity’s Best and Worst in PC Gaming for 2010:
