It’s a little over a week before DC Universe Online hits store shelves. Are you dying to create your own online Green Lantern, or Batlad, but just can’t wait for the game to come out? Well, here are a few other super-powered titles for you to focus your super impatience on until DCU’s drop date of January 11th.
When I was a child, the year 2010 seemed like the distant future. An amazing technologically-advanced utopia where people could play games on mechanical thinking machines connected to each other via a vast electromagnetic web of digital entertainment! Looking back on last year, the real 2010 far exceeded my expectation; my childish dreams of what a video game might be were dwarfed by the realities of projects like Mass Effect 2. As of today, 2010 is part of the past. Henceforth, I’ll look back on that time as a primitive period when Dragon Age 2 wasn’t available, and subhuman savages entertained themselves with primeval entertainment software.
After we awarded the best and worst films of 2010 and then provided you a comprehensive list ranking all the films we covered this year, did you really think we were done? To kick off the new year, here are the Player Affinity Movie Awards, recognizing categories outside the best and worst films of the year. Some of the awards were standard, but we cooked up a few that deserved to be handed out this year in particular.
Are you full of Christmas bird, stuffing and gravy? Dead broke and looking for something less filling and less intrusive to your wallet? Well here on Player Affinity, free doesn’t mean cheap. So put your feet up and relax before New Year’s. It’s Trailer Tracker.
Coming from Top Cow and Minotaur Press is a trailer for Echoes, the first book to release under the Minotaur Press imprint. The first issue releases next week, but they put together a some what creepy trailer for you to watch until then. If you need a full refresher about the title check out our previous coverage here. Otherwise here’s a summary of the title and the trailer for you to enjoy.
Brian Cohn was learning to deal with the Schizophrenia inherited from his father. Supportive wife, new baby on the way, drugs to control the voices. But when on his father’s deathbed, he learns that he also inherited the trophies of his father’s career as a serial killer. Will his madness send him further down into the crawlspace of his father’s mind?
While the title of our featured clip this week on Player Affinity may have nothing to do with your expected gift load this holiday season, you may find this star-studded thriller a fun treat to look forward to in the coming year. Well go on; tear open that wrapping — its Trailer Tracker.
The sounds of quarters dropping, buzzers and lights flashing, sweaty strangers huddled around arcade machines. That was the arcade scene of the early 90’s. For those of you too young to remember, arcades were once a place where complete strangers would have to stand uncomfortably close to each other to play games. Not only that, but we had to pay per play of a game. If you died, it would cost you another quarter and if you didn’t have one another guy would totally steal your spot while you dug in your pockets. This was when X-men Arcade hit the scene and became an instant classic.
Just when we thought Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath won the prize for “Last Great PC Game of the Year”, along comes Back to the Future from Telltale Games, which chronicles a brand new adventure for Marty, Doc and their flying, time-traveling Delorean Its release date has been set for next Wednesday, the 22nd.
Jackie’s dream team of convicts continues to fall apart as another member of the team looks to betray Jackie’s trust by attempting to murder him. The issue follows Tyne’s life and ultimately his death. Tyne was the mobster accountant that always had the right answer for Jackie. Well it turned out that he was a snake in the grass and was/is an agent of the Angelus – The Darkness’ mortal enemy. Tyne narrates the reader through his life explaining how he came to be in Jackie’s group.
The year is 2027. The world has suffered a decade-long energy crisis, and economies have crumbled. Reduced to a mere shadow of the super power it once was, the United States became the target of a North Korean takeover. American malls, suburbs and city streets are now battlegrounds as the civilian resistance fights for freedom. Featuring a compelling single player story crafted by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn), Homefront immerses gamers in an interactive and cinematic FPS experience where they will assume an infantry role or take command of a wide variety of aerial and ground vehicles. In addition to the single-player experience, Homefront will deliver a robust multiplayer experience. In a land stripped of freedom, the brave will fight for their home.”
