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Games We’re Thankful For

If you are reading this, you either live in some Third World country that doesn’t have turkeys, or you snuck away from your Thanksgiving festivities to read about video games on the internet.   When your family joins hands around the dinner table and everyone takes turns saying what they’re thankful for, your Mom probably doesn’t want to hear about how happy you are that there’s no level cap in Skyrim.  But we here at Player Affinity know how you feel.  Here are few games that we feel thankful for:

Black Friday Sales for PC Gaming

Those readers of Player Affinity
who are in America for Thanksgiving may have more to be thankful for
than a
belly full of turkey. There have been a number of spectacular games
released
over the past month or so. This spectacle does not come cheap, however,
with
the price of non-Collector’s Edition pieces averaging around $59.99.

Battlefield: Back To Karland Set For December Release

Battlefield fans have been waiting to go Back to Karkland since the DLC was announced prior to the release of Battlefield 3 and EA and DICE have released a bunch of new info and a gameplay video for the upcoming expansion pack/DLC. Check it out below:

Back to Kirkland is the first DLC Map Pack for Battlefield 3 and aims to reintroduce four maps from Battlefield 2. The maps in question are Strike at Karkland, Gulf of Oman, Sharqi Peninsula and Wake Island. As well as new maps, the DLC is also going to add some new weapons, vehicles and achievements to the game’s multiplayer.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Open Beta Set Launches Next Week

Anticipation is high for the sequel to one of the bigget online first person shooters of all time and Valve have announced that the closed beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive will begin next week. The closed beta will allow gamers with keys to try out two of the new maps (Dust and Dust2). While Valve aim to start the beta small, they have said that they will be quickly opening up the beta to larger and larger amounts of players.

Blizzard Bringing Pandaren and Monks in Mists of Pandaria

Blizzard made a huge push to bring new players to their massively successful MMORPG World of Warcraft with the last expansion Cataclysm.  With the game’s newly announced fourth expansion Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard are making a big effort to hold onto their still massive but currently declining playerbase.

“Girl With A Heart Of” Now Available

We love indie games here at Player Affinity, and do what we can to spread the word about the little guys with stars in their eyes, and open source dev kits on their hard drives.  One such newcomer with an interesting new game is Bent Spoon Games with their debut title Girl With A Heart Of.

New Trine 2 Screenshots

While console gamers are grabbing up the last clump of games for the year, us PC gamers can look forward to a bunch of PC exclusives that will become available in the final month of 2011.  One such game is Trine 2, Frozenbyte’s follow up to their physics/puzzle/platformer.  To remind gamers to set aside a few bucks for its December release, the developer has let loose a new batch of screenshots.