Those nice folks at Good Old Games.com collectively yanked our chains over the weekend. Their website was shut down, replaced with a tearful farewell stating that the company couldn’t continue in its current form, yet offering assurances that customers would be able to download recently-purchased items. Now its clear that it was all a lie! A horrible, horrible lie, and Gog.com will be back in business this week.
Ever wish there was a place where you could discuss boxers, gnomes and corrupt politicians all at the same time? Well, pine no longer because it is time for Trailer Tracker here at Player Affinity where we collect the best new trailers hitting the web. Boxer Mickey Ward gets his own film in the aptly titled The Fighter, Ron Howard unveils his new comedy The Dilemma starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James and we terrorize new college students even more than they are now with The Roommate. Next, Kevin Spacey is the greedy Casino Jack in the new biopic and finally Shakespeare gets the ceramic treatment in Gnomeo and Juliet.
Command and Conquer 3 is a dead simple strategy game… can you expect any less? It’s dead simple and that’s all I can say. Ok, that’s too simple an analysis… and sorry for being so cold about the game, but from what I’ve been experiencing, the game feels far too dead simple to be considered a strategy game at all. Many of the units feel too weak, some don’t serve much a purpose, some just clutter the screen, and some just take up space. Well, that may be… but the game is so much fun in all cases, what a contradictory statement considering how much I just said in the opening few sentences. But ask yourself, what makes the game so addicting to some? Why does the game keep pulling you back for more after you finished a few hours of straight game after game? Well I’ll tell you a few things that can help convince the point on this matter.
The good news keeps on coming from this years Tokyo Game Show in
Hello all and welcome back to Trailer Tracker here at Player Affinity, your burly bouncer of movie trailers, letting only the hippest and most exciting clips play before your eyes. This week on the guest list is acclaimed director Clint Eastwood’s latest supernatural drama Hereafter, followed by the debut clip for the pairing of two Hollywood megastars – Jonny Depp and Angelina Jolie – in The Tourist.
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero was released recently and was met with mostly rave reviews. I for one loved it. At the Tokyo Game Show Capcom announced a follow-up type thing entitled “Dead Rising 2: Case West.” While this title may not be so well named, it’s more Dead Rising, and that seems fine to me.
No one can dispute that Mario has been the most prevalent video game icon over the last twenty five years, especially when Nintendo continues to release numerous games featuring the famed Italian plumber on their famished consoles. While Mario continues going head to head against titles like Call of Duty and Halo, there’s one thing for sure
The conclusion to True Blood’s third season contains a slew of grisly casualties, but the real victim is the finale itself. After an over ambitious narrative that has meandered in multiple directions, there is not time to wrap up loose ends and the final episode plays out like a teaser to next season, with only flashes of excitement.
Kinect. It’s happening. It will feature such innovative and never been done before games such as “Kinect Sports.” And at PAX West, Microsoft announced two new modes for their completely originally title, Boxing and Party Play. Again, original.
The more interesting (my false sense of interest couldn’t be displayed through pressing keys so I’ll just say baaaaaah to signify my extreme interest) of the two modes, Party Play, will apparently be a “tournament-style multiplayer mode that will let your characters dress up like aliens and carrots and stuff.” (Thanks to Destructoid editor Nick Chester for that quote) I’m assuming Party Play will just be their mode that you play when you’re at a party… and you want to play Kinect with friends. Why in God’s name would you want to do that?
As kids head back to school and adults back to the rat-race that is work, Trailer Tracker here at Player Affinity remains a shining beacon of hope as summer comes to close. Alas, it seems that the coming of fall has managed to drain even some life from the movies, as only three new clips have hit the web this past week. WithGrindhouse-born Machete having just been released over Labor Day weekend, we get a first look at the next trailer-turned-feature, the bluntly titled Hobo with a Shotgun. Next is the bloody French zombie flick The Horde and finally acclaimed director Julian Schnabel returns with his latest project Miran starring Frieda Pinto. Put that back-to-school shopping on hold and let’s have a bit of fun.
