Friends, family, food and film. That’s the holiday season. Well, at least for the Player Affinity Movies staff, but we’re pretty sure you at least will see or think about or be asked to see one of the films on this list — that would be the Top 10 movies of the holiday season, according to PAM.
For the past few years, the big question that’s come up with the new Call of Duty game has been, “Who’s making it?” Infinity Ward, the original creators of the series, have been known to revolutionize the series, and make it the top-dollar franchise it is today. Treyarch is more known for making pale imitation of those great games, which were good, but could never reach the same level of quality and respect from the gaming community. Now with the Infinity Ward lawsuits, and the general uncertainty of the Modern Warfare series’ future, Treyarch is making a huge comeback with Call of Duty: Black Ops. In many ways, it’s the most ambitious game in the series, but in many other ways, it’s one of the most safe sequels from Activision yet. To be short, if you like Call of Duty, you’ll like Black Ops. A more detailed explanation will take longer, though.
No need to be jealous of your Xbox-owning pals. The Kinect motion-sensing peripheral for Microsoft’s console has already been hacked to work with a PC. The Kinect is basically an infrared webcam with a set of special software that lets Kinect-enabled Xbox games interpret the images. It’s not such a big stretch to make it work with a Windows PC, and as you can see in the video below, it just needs the right drivers to be able to sense your body then relay that information to a PC.
He’s the man that upholds Truth, Justice and The American Way. He was the first, and is the most recognizable hero. Just seeing his symbol alone can give hope and make you believe that anything is possible. He is the Kryptonian: Superman. Honestly, I always try to give this guy a chance, (maybe because I was awed as a child) so when I heard of another revamp I picked this up with much enthusiasm. I was not completely let down, but neither was I awestruck with this book.
This book starts with the beginning. It follows Clark Kent moving to Metropolis in search of something to do with his life. After trying his hand at a few things and passing expectations with all he does he is still unsatisfied. Whilst discovering his past from his ship, Earth is invaded by a fleet of alien ships commanded by alien Tyrell, claiming he is searching for someone and is holding the planet hostage and Clark must decide to save or hide.
Using EA’s Partners program, three independent developers have signed to make games for PSN, Xbox Live and PC. The three developers; Vanguard Games, Borne Games, and Trapdoor have all already announced titles they are working on.
Are you feeling teary-eyed? Do you have a craving for ice cream and smell scented candles everywhere you go? It must be Rom Com Roundup on Trailer Tracker, a special feature this week thanks to a surge of romantic comedy trailers hitting the web.
Whether or not you consider Todd Phillips] Due Date an homage to or a rip-off of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles depends largely on if you think it’s funny. I do. Both are great examples of a road trip comedy, featuring excellent performances from both leading actors.
Battlefield Play4Free is exactly what you probably think it is. Electronic Arts already has a free to play version of the series, the cartoonyBattlefield Heroes, which is currently running. Now they’ve announced the next version of the game to use the play online for free plan, but will have a more realistic design scheme, and will use a modern day setting more akin to Battlefield Bad Company, or Battlefield 2. The game is set to go live in Spring of 2011, with a beta test starting later this month.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was released as a challenge to the hugely popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, keeping its unique Battlefield teamwork and coordination celebrated in previous titles in the series but introducing gameplay on a smaller and more directed scale. Streamlined to a degree, with smaller maps and more limited objectives, the latest BF title allowed for greater detail and interaction with the environment and opened up new strategies and tactics that were absent in larger and more empty landscapes. Basically acting as almost a reboot to the series via gameplay and graphics, it comes as no surprise that, like BF1942 before it, BF: BC2 has in the works a Vietnam expansion that is sure to impress.
So you thought you’d have to wait until March 2011 to get your chainmail-clad hands on the next Dragon Age game? Think again because, EA is releasing a browser-based 2d Dragon Age game on Facebook this February. It’s true that Facebook games are all crap, but this one at least shows promise, and even if you hate it, forcing yourself to play through will unlock stuff in Dragon Age II.
