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New Short Story From LA Noire

May 12, 2011 | | PC News

We here at Player Affinity love reading! You know, video game manuals, video game strategy guides, in-game text telling us which button to push to jump… and of course we love books based on video games too. That’s why we’re so keen on the hard-boiled detective tales that Rockstar is publishing to help promote their two-fisted game LA Noire. Today the latest story, “Hell of an Affair” by Duane Swierczynksi hit the internet, and you can read it online, or download it as a PDF.

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Midweek Sales – Brink Edition

May 11, 2011 | | PC News

If you’ll all be so kind as to turn off Brink for a minute or two, I have some important news about some sales on games that aren’t Brink. Some of these are actually good enough, and cheap enough that you can still afford them even if you busted your budget buying Brink.

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Diablo 3 set for Late-2011, Beta Details also given

May 10, 2011 | | PC News

Gamers have been looking forward to getting their hands on Diablo 3 since it was first announced in Paris at Blizzard’s 2008 World Wide Invitational. Since then Blizzard has announced all five of the game’s playable classes and also shown off the game’s Player Versus Player Arena Mode. With this much information about the game out, it’s almost suprising that Blizzard has kept so quiet about a release date.

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Analyst Predicts EA Turning Profit for The Old Republic

May 9, 2011 | | PC News

Recently, EA released it’s earning estimates for the previous fiscal year, as well as it’s predictions for the next. The company forecast that the highly anticipated MMO,Star Wars: The Old Republic would be released sometime in the second half of 2011, though there could be an “outside chance” that it will be delayed into the first quarter of 2012.

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Gabe Newell Discusses “Singleplayer Plus”

May 9, 2011 | | PC News

Valve is taking it’s sweet time creating Half-Life 2: Episode 3, so fans are eager for any hints at all aboutwhen it will come out, and what sort of experience it will impart. So when Gabe Newell, while discussing Portal 2, mentioned that Portal 2 would “probably” be the last isolate singleplayer experience, Half Life fans became jumpy, since Half-Life is very story driven. When asked to clarify this statement, Newell responded:

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Weekend Sales Friday May 6th

May 6, 2011 | | PC News

Yesterday got us off to a great start for weekend game sales, and today a bunch of new digital distributors have put even more games on sale! Good Old Games has the Total Annihilation series and the first three Masters of Orion strategy games marked down by half off, if you buy them as a lot of five, or you can get them for 30% off which makes them $4.19 each, and $19.56 for all five.

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Weekend Sales Thursday May 5th

May 5, 2011 | | PC News

Do the other nerds pick on you because you haven’t played Mass Effect yet? If so, you can gain back your geek cred with Steam’s Daily Deal on the Mass Effect franchise. ME 1 & 2 , along with the ME2 Digital Deluxe Edition are all half price. Alas, none if the DLC is on sale.

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Mass Effect 3 Delayed

May 5, 2011 | | PC News

Gamers have been eagerly awaiting the final installment of the Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy since they beat the played through Mass Effect 2 when it came out in early 2010. When Bioware and EA unveiled the teaser trailer of Mass Effect 3 at last years Spike TV VGA awards show, fans of the games were excited. Not only was the final installment of the Mass Effect trilogy on its way, it was set to be released in less than a year, claiming Winter 2011 as a release window.

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Daily Deals Wednesday May 4th

May 4, 2011 | | PC News

Normally we don’t do a sales report on Wednesdays, but today there’s just so much going on that we had to get them all in one place. Every other Wednesday Good Old Games has a “GoG Gem Promo” on some neglected classic. This week it is the Adventure game Syberia, which you can get for $3.99 today and tomorrow. This is a great price on something that anyone with the least bit of curiosity about the Adventure genre should grab.

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“Tell Me About The Rabbits, Grom” – Of Orcs and Men Announced

May 4, 2011 | | PC News

It’s no fun having green skin in the white man’s world. In Of Orcs and Men you’ll play as an Orc soldier in the elite Bloodjaw legion, defending your fellow monsters from the cruel persecution of those filthy humans and their oppressive Empire of Men. It’s up to you and your goblin sidekick to defend the Orcan homelands against the humans, by using the combination of Orcish might, and Goblin stealth.

New Short Story From LA Noire

Midweek Sales – Brink Edition

Diablo 3 set for Late-2011, Beta Details also given

Analyst Predicts EA Turning Profit for The Old Republic

Gabe Newell Discusses “Singleplayer Plus”

Weekend Sales Friday May 6th

Weekend Sales Thursday May 5th

Mass Effect 3 Delayed

Daily Deals Wednesday May 4th

“Tell Me About The Rabbits, Grom” – Of Orcs and Men Announced

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