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Syndicate – Dub Step Anyone?

For anyone that doesn’t know, the original Syndicate was a tactical shooter originally released in the 1993 with a few expansions released as well as a second game later in the 90’s. The third game, coming next year, tosses out the idea of a tactical shooter in favor of a first person shooter approach. The game is set in 2069 and the government is no longer run by politicians, but rather large groups known as Syndicates and everyone wants to be “Chip’d” by their respective Syndicate in order to gain access to everything and anything that anyone could imagine. EA has recently released a new trailer for the game and it seems to be shaping into a very interesting experience.

Bioware Talks ME3 Gameplay Improvements

Bioware’s web video series Pulse has revealed some of the new changes made to Mass Effect’s gameplay in the third entry in the series, slated for March next year.

Things of note are the new unique abilities each class is getting. For example: my Shepard, being an Adept, will receive a new pull ability that makes shield carrying enemies easier to take down by making them drop the heavy armored shield they walk around with. Likewise, the more close range Vanguard class, which is known for the teleportation charge attack, will also receive an area effect damage ability that, while making you vulnerable by using your shield as its power source, will likely kill everything it hits.

Trailer Tracker: John Carter, Being Flynn and more

It seems as if the impending holiday season had put a kibosh on new clips this week (and new releases for this coming weekend as well), but we’ll work with what we have and hope the dawning of December will be fruitful in more ways than one. First off, we have the first full-ish length trailer for the mega-budgeted Disney sci-fi epic John Carter, which aims for an audience I haven’t quite pegged as of yet. Secondly is Being Flynn, the redemptive tale of an author and his son, played by Robert De Niro and Paul Dano respectively. Finally, we bring to you a con-man thriller with Samuel “Mother f$+%&#!” Jacksonentitled The Samaritan. We’re always the good kind here – it’s Trailer Tracker (lite).

‘John Carter’ Trailer 2 Arrives

With barely three months until its release, Disney’s big-budget John Carter adaptation is looking to raise some public awareness with a new trailer released yesterday. Probably the most noticeable change in the marketing has been the increased emphasis on the film’s Martian setting, and the big cast of alien creatures that inhabit it. Rather than the split-second glimpse we got in trailer one, the green-skinned and multi-limbed natives of Mars are on full display here, including Willem Dafoe’s Tars Tarkas, who befriends Civil War vet John Carter following his unexpected interplanetary arrival.

Q.U.B.E. Coming to PCs Before the End of the Year

Console gamers have seen the last hurrah for 2011 in terms of new games, but the PC scene can still look forward to several new games in this final month like Star Wars: TOR and Trine 2.  Another PC game whose release date was just confirmed is Q.U.B.E. a debut title by indie developers Toxic Games.

Battlefield 3: DLC Trailer

In case you’ve forgotten, as you’ve likely been lost in the realm of Skyrim, this game called Battlefield 3 came out.  Well the first DLC pack, Back to Karkand, is coming out and EA has been kind of enough to give us a little sneak peak with a brand new trailer.  The DLC pack features multiplayer maps from Battlefield 2 re-imagined using the new Frostbite 2 engine.  The new trailer shows off the Gulf of Oman map and showcases the return of some vehicles that may be familiar for veteran players, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and desert buggy.  There’s also a brand new vehicle in the video.  See if you can find it, it’s right around the 1:02 mark.

DVD/Blu-ray DISCussion (New for 11.29.11)

There are a large number of First Releases this week, some of them being very noteworthy and we at Player Affinity have picked the critically acclaimed horror-comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil as our Recommendation of the Week. This week’s releases offer movie fans a wide range of movies and genres, from R-Rated comedies in the form of 30 Minutes or Less and Friends With Benefits, the art-house sci-fi movie Another Earth, Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams and a large number of straight-to-DVD releases.

Xcom developer working on Bioshock Infinite

2K Australia, the developer working on the Xcom reboot, is helping Irrational Games out on Bioshock Infinite. The studio also helped to put the finishing touches on the original Bioshock, so this doesn’t come as a surprise. This puts some perspective on Xcom’s recent delay into fiscal 2012, which runs until March 2013. Bioshock Infinite is a flagpole release for publisher 2K, so it’s likely they’ll want the game polished and finished post-haste.

Hugo Review

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is a film for cinema lovers (and as such the child in all of us) and an ode to movies of old, as much as it is a warm, Christmastime endeavor that demands a smile and a softened heart.

Trailer Tracker: Brave, Gone and more

Check out this week’s featured clip if you dare – you’ll have to be Brave (and love Pixar). Yes, Pixar’s latest is here, about a warrior-at-heart who just happens to be a woman, but is nevertheless shoved into the role of dutiful daughter in this period spectacle. Amanda Seyfried then may or may not be crazy in Gone, the thriller which finds a woman searching for her kidnapped younger sister who (again) may or may not have been taken by the same man who attacked her years earlier. Next, The Rock goes to a rock in the semi-sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Last off, Woody Harelson is a cop embodying the worst of the worst in the crime thriller Rampart. We watch things gallantly streaming – it’s trailer Tracker.