Trailer Tracker: London Boulevard, Sanctum and more
It’s a Trailer Tracker with a foreign flavour this week on Player Affinity with two British crime thrillers:
It’s a Trailer Tracker with a foreign flavour this week on Player Affinity with two British crime thrillers:
During an investors briefing on Friday, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS “Shop Channel”. This channel provides a peek at some of the advancements Nintendo hopes to make in its online offerings. The Shop Channel is where 3DS owners will turn to when they are looking to download 3DS-ware and Virtual Console games for their tri-dimensional handheld, and it seems like Nintendo looks to make the purchasing process less painful than ever.
During an investors briefing on Friday, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS “Shop Channel”. This channel provides a peek at some of the advancements Nintendo hopes to make in its online offerings. The Shop Channel is where 3DS owners will turn to when they are looking to download 3DS-ware and Virtual Console games for their tri-dimensional handheld, and it seems like Nintendo looks to make the purchasing process less painful than ever.
Beginning in 2004, the Saw franchise has been synonymous with Halloween weekend. Although it is typically categorized as horror, Saw and its sequels are actually gruesome thrillers with intricate plots and twisted endings. The latest entry ups the ante with additional traps, welcomes flashbacks of Jigsaw and returning characters from previous installments. Saw fanatics are a feisty brood and they will no doubt enjoy, albeit with bittersweet ambivalence, the final chapter to the long-running series.
The highest grossing horror franchise is sadly coming to an end. In 2004, Saw solidified a new form of modern horror that exploits torture as a central stomach-turner. Produced for very little money, Saw turned heads with a hands-off killer in John Kramer who is a mere mortal dying of cancer aiming to teach people the value of life (or so he says). Jigsaw, as he is otherwise known, sets up elaborate games to make his “subjects” adopt a new way of thinking. I’ve been given the glorious task of identifying the most memorable trap of each entry. Let’s start from the beginning (spoilers throughout).
In just over a month, Wii owners will finally be able to get their hands on Disney Epic Mickey, and to make the wait just that much tougher, Warren Spector and the folks at Junction Point Studios have released a gameplay trailer. The trailer doesn’t reveal any hidden revelations, but it does hint at the fun mechanics and encounters that gamers can expect in a few weeks. See for yourself below.
In just over a month, Wii owners will finally be able to get their hands on Disney Epic Mickey, and to make the wait just that much tougher, Warren Spector and the folks at Junction Point Studios have released a gameplay trailer. The trailer doesn’t reveal any hidden revelations, but it does hint at the fun mechanics and encounters that gamers can expect in a few weeks. See for yourself below.
Last week Player Affinity did a round-up of gadgets shown at the New York Comic Con, and one of the things which impressed us most was a PC peripheral codenamed “Project Tuatara”. In short, Tuatara is a motion-sensing wireless controller that replaces your mouse and keyboard, and has a built in wireless projector which replaces your monitor. It senses where you aim and projects the game directly in front of you on the wall, floor or ceiling. We spoke with David Lashmet the Global Product Manager for Advanced Applications at Microvision, makers of Project Tuatara.
The third DLC pack released for Mafia 2, titled “Joe’s Adventures” will hit Xbox Live, PSN, and PC on November 23rd. The price will be, you guessed it, $10.
The new DLC focuses on Joe Barbaro who is the best friend of our protagonist Vito Scaletta. The DLC reportedly takes place while Vito is in prison and focuses almost exclusively on Joe. The only downside is that you have to wait until November to get your paws on this Mafia goodness. Maybe the next DLC will take a cue from Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption and give us some zombie mobsters. One can only hope.
