The game is still about six months away, but the PR folk at Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment are steadily releasing tantalizing morsels of information about the next installment in the Arkham Asylum series. It’s just a thinly veiled attempt to build an irresistible juggernaut of hype over the new Batman game, but hey, we’re glad to play along because we here at Player Affinity are as excited about this game as anyone else.
It’s shaping up to be quite a good week in terms of online game sales. Steampowered.com is holding a Square Enix week, with a different game by Squenix on sale every day. Today, it’s the whole Just Cause franchise; you can get the first Just Cause game for $3.75, or the sequel for $7.50. This deal is only good for today, Tuesday the 15th. Steam is also holding a big huge bundle sale on the entire Squenix catalogue; that’s dozens of games for $75!
Last year Telltale announced that they were working on both a series of adventure games for the classic movie franchises Back to the Future and Jurassic Park. With the recent release of the first two episodes of the Back to the Future game, many people were left wondering when we would see Jurassic Park and how it would be different to Telltale’s other products.
Recently Telltale announced several games that they will be bringing out
over the course of 2011. First up was the unveiling of the Jurassic Park
game with the trailer below.
Hector: Badge of Carnage “Episode 1: We Negotiate With Terrorists” was a particularly fun and hilarious point-and-click adventure game for the iPod that featured solid writing and a unique hand drawn art style. It followed the titular Detective Inspector Hector as he rushed around the British town of Clappers Wreake trying to resolve a hostage situation.
Despite
its cartoony art style, Hector is quite clearly designed to be played
by more adult audiences with its own unique brand of humor as the
trailer below clearly illustrates. The game was quite well received and
it’s well worth checking out on the Appstore.
Nerd vixen Felicia Day, best known for her web series The Guild will write and star in a new live action Dragon Age webseries called Dragon Age Redemption. Ms. Day will play an elven assassin named Tallis who was hired by the Qunari to hunt down a rogue mage.
Let’s get this straight right from the beginning; Baron Wittard is a hard game. When I say hard, I mean that I was stumped by the very first level. It’s a combination of point ‘n’ click adventure, with puzzle-solving, and only hardcore fans of both genres will want to take a look at Barron Wittard. This game will melt your brain if you aren’t heavily into hunting for hidden switches and trial & error logic puzzles.
On February 12th, the annual awards event known as the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Interactive Awards took place. All the choices were pretty standard, though Heavy Rain won a lot more than expected. Here’s the full list of categories and winners.-Action Game of the Year:
According to the developers blog, “The Beta will be geographically rolled out, with three different regions planned; US-West, US-East and Europe turned up at slightly different times. Tentatively we are aiming to turn up the first Closed Beta during the week of February 28.” The blog also mentions that applications for the beta have exceeded well over a hundred thousand, so expect typical chances coming out the door for beta invites.
According to a UK gaming site called MCV, Activision, the publisher behind Call of Duty, may acquire Take-Two. In case you don’t know, Take-Two have published hits like Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto, and Red Dead Redemption. This would definitely change the playing field for the gaming industry, but it’s not entirely unexpected. Activision merged with Vivendi games back in 2007 in an $18.9 billion deal. This brought both Call of Duty and World of Warcraft under the same publishing house, a powerful combination to be sure.
