The Call of Duty Elite app is now available on the Android market store, having been released onto iOS devices last week. The app, which is free to all current paying subscribers to Elite, allows players to check their online ranking, review recent matches, customise their weapon loadouts and chat with friends.
Video games, comics, movies, TV, we cover it all here at Player Affinity, now sit up straight you uncultured oafs because we’re cramming some dramatic art down your throats with a review of a science-fiction off-off-Broadway play that’s running in New York City. Advance Man by Mac Rogers is the first play in a series of such works called The Honeycomb Trilogy.
When Crytek handed over the keys to Far Cry back in 2007, it was clear that Ubisoft Montreal were facing a tough challenge. Save for spiritual successorCrysis, the series had been long abandoned by the original creators, surviving only through its cult multiplayer following and exceptional reputation for visual design. Ubisoft inherited the impossible task of having to satisfy the series’ existing fanbase whilst simultaneously reaching for an unaware console market that was still high on Modern Warfare. Meanwhile, Crysis had launched to whirlwind success and was busy shredding home computers with its superlative CryEngine. By the time Far Cry 2 launched in October 2008, expectations were soaring. The pre-release material that had been trailed at UbiDays earlier that year had pushed anticipation to boiling point, with wild promises of unbridled sandbox gaming and unprecedented levels of real-world fidelity.
Friday the 13th is the day you’re most likely to get struck by lightning, run over by an ambulance and stabbed in the face by a bad tempered fella with a hockey mask, so why not do yourself a favor and remain indoors with our top five list of the unluckiest characters in gaming history.
Have you already done everything there is to do in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Well, if you feel that the amount of content Bioware’s MMO had at launch is somehow insufficient, then you’ll be glad to hear that there’s already more stuff coming out for it less than a month after launch.
An American, Amir Hekmati has been sentenced to death in Iran for espionage. The Iranian government has accused Hekmati of being a spy working for the CIA through developer Kuma Games. The Iranians suggest that Kuma Games was funded by the CIA to make propaganda games that would spread pro-western political messages and “accuse Iran of involvement in terrorism.”
Razer showed off their new prototype gaming tablet today. Project Fiona is a small touchscreen computer like many others, but Fiona has a pair of game controllers built in on either side letting players take on more complex games than Smurf Village and Angry Birds.
