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New Screenshots and Trailer for The Secret World

Mar 10, 2011 | | PC Features

Funcom has created some spectacular games over the years; they made The Longest Journey, a highly regarded classic in the adventure genre, along with its sequel Dreamfall. In recent years they’ve become known for MMO’s like Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, and they have a new online game coming up later this year. The Secret World is a modern-day massively multiplayer online game and its Creative Director is Ragnar Tornquist, the lead designer on Longest Journey. This looks to be a must-have game for fans of Tornquist’s games.

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Console Exclusives We Want On PC – Heavy Rain

Mar 8, 2011 | | PC Features

Many of the problems PC gamers face, such as bugs, computer crashes, and broken power supplies, are generally solved in two ways. One way, we can throw money at the problem, and buy new computer parts or pay for help. The second, more preferable way, is to spend hours solving the problem in a cost efficient or free manner. However, there’s one problem that no matter how much money we throw at it, or how much time we spend begging developers to solve it, it just doesn’t work. Console exclusive games. These games are very irritating and tempting at the same time, so it can be easy to fantasize about the perfect port to complement your game library.

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Homefront Preview

Mar 8, 2011 | | PC Features

First person shooters are easily the biggest genre in video games with titanic franchises like Call of Duty and Halo calling the genre their own. Every year publishers unleash a slew of FPS games and this month THQ is bringing Homefront to the masses. Homefront is a first person shooter set in the near future. In it North Korea has unified itself with South Korea and most of Asia. America has suffered an economic collapse that allows them to be invaded by the Korean forces. In the game you will be playing as a civilian who joins the American Resistance in order to fight back against the Korean forces. The story is being penned by John Millius who co-wrote “Red Dawn” and “Apocalypse Now”. The world of Homefront is filled with a variety of colorful characters from an ex-military soldier looking for revenge to an American-Korean freedom fighter bearing scars from race riots that occurred in the early stages of the war.

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Red Faction Armageddon Preview

Mar 7, 2011 | | PC Features

I’m just going to come out and say it: Blowing stuff up is fun. Call me shallow, but there’s nothing quite like seeing a nice big fireball where a building, vehicle, or enemy previously stood. That being said, 2009’s Red Faction: Guerilla was a fairly standard third person shooter made special by it’s penchant for destruction on a grand scale, and a completely destructible environment. Sure, games like Battlefield: Bad Company had done it before Guerilla, but Guerilla made your very objective to blow things up. Now, THQ is releasing a direct sequel to Guerilla called Red Faction: Armageddon, which replaces the oppressive Earth Defense Force for aliens which have been unleashed from so much digging under Mars’ crust.

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Designer Affinity – Ken Levine

Mar 7, 2011 | | PC Features

Sometimes it seems like a game was made just for you. The features are exactly what you always wanted in a game, the story tells a tale that you’ve had in your head for years, and the message you take away sticks with you even after you’ve finished playing. Often you’ll find that when you feel this way about several games they’re all made by the same company, sometimes even with the same Lead Designer behind them. Such is the case with how I feel about Ken Levine at Irrational Games.

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Shogun Total War 2 – Hands On Preview

Mar 4, 2011 | | PC Features

The Total War franchise spans ten years, and eight games. The series has covers time periods and settings ranging from Ancient Greece up to the Napoleonic Era. The next one, Shogun Total War 2 takes the series back to its roots with a Feudalistic Japanese setting. It comes out in two weeks, and there’s a demo available right now to give you a look at what the series is all about.

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Will We Ever Play These Old Games Part 3

Mar 3, 2011 | | PC Features

We all have that shameful backlog somewhere in our house; a stack of old games that we bought on impulse years ago, but never got around to playing despite the fact that we just had to own the thing. Then there’s all of those games we started playing and kept meaning to finish off, but were constantly distracted by the latest installment of Call of Duty. Well, Player Affinity’s PC crew pried open our chest of neglected classics and had another go at them to see whether or not we’ll ever play these old games.

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Character Affinity : Commander Shepard

Feb 28, 2011 | | PC Features

Commander Shepard is the character that the player takes control of in Bioware’s Mass Effect, a shooter/ role playing game set in a rich space opera universe where humanity is struggling to find its place in intergalactic politics. The galaxy of Mass Effect is inhabited by various alien races united by a council of elders and policed by Spectres, an agency of special agents who enforce the will of the council.

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Can’t Wait for Dragon Age 2? Try These Games

Feb 27, 2011 | | PC Features

Bioware’s latest epic Dragon Age 2 is just on the horizon now and many console and PC gamers alike are eager to get their hands on it. Dragon Age 2 looks to surpass everything that Dragon Age: Origins built, much like Mass Effect 2 surpassed its predecessor. The only problem, is that the game isn’t out yet and gamers need something to keep them going until March 8th. Below is a list of several games that aren’t quite Dragon Age 2 but are close enough to keep you going until the release date of Bioware’s next epic.

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Will We Ever Play These Old Games Part 2

Feb 24, 2011 | | PC Features

We all have that shameful backlog somewhere in our house; a stack of old games that we bought on impulse years ago, but never got around to playing despite the fact that we just had to own the thing. Then there’s all of those games we started playing and kept meaning to finish off, but were constantly distracted by the latest installment of Call of Duty. Well, Player Affinity’s PC crew pried open our chest of neglected classics and had another go at them to see whether or not we’ll ever play these old games.

New Screenshots and Trailer for The Secret World

Console Exclusives We Want On PC – Heavy Rain

Homefront Preview

Red Faction Armageddon Preview

Designer Affinity – Ken Levine

Shogun Total War 2 – Hands On Preview

Will We Ever Play These Old Games Part 3

Character Affinity : Commander Shepard

Can’t Wait for Dragon Age 2? Try These Games

Will We Ever Play These Old Games Part 2

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