Steam is having something of an off day. Their big Midweek Madness sale is Darkspore for 40% off. That makes it $29.95; not really “Madness”, more like a perfectly reasonable price. Asking fifty bucks for the thing was the true madness.
Possibly the biggest piece of news to comes out of E3 was Nintendo revealing what their mysterious new console would be. What materialized was the mutant offspring of a Dreamcast controller and an iPad. Will this new Wii U usher Nintendo into the modern age? Did the new line up of 3DS games make up for the lackluster launch titles? Player Affinity’s Charles Battersby, Joe Button and Fergus Halliday discuss.
After the disaster that was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer, a lot of PC gamers are being cautious regarding the next game in the series, Modern Warfare 3. Despite the last game, Black Ops, featuring dedicated server support, initial leaks about Modern Warfare 3 stated that the PC Versions multiplayer would not include any dedicated server support.
EA is making a huge push towards gamers to buy Battlefield 3, however their DLC is causing an issue. EA’s DLC Physical Warfare Pack, currently only available via preorder at GAME and Gamestation stores, is causing a large outcry amongst customers. Gamers fear the DLC will provide an unfair edge to the players who purchase the Pack, ruining the balance which is the heart of the Battlefield series.
If you’re a fan of id’s Rage, you’ve been waiting for a really long time for it to be released, 7 years to be exact. This will be the first intellectual property of id to appear on consoles since 1996’s Quake, so there’s some understandable hype, anticipation, and excitement. However, id has delayed Rage from it’s original release date on September 13th, 2011 to October 4th, 2011.
Is it just me, or did the Sony hacking fiasco encourage everyone else to hack a game company? Epic, Codemasters, and Nintendo have all been recently hacked for personal user data, and now Bethesda has been as well. In Bethesda’s case, the page compromised was the Brink website. According to Bethesda, the only data that has been stolen is usernames, passwords, and email addresses. This must be pretty rough for PS3 Brink players, considering that they weren’t able to play online before, and now they may have their data accesssed.
Duke Nukem Forever releases tomorrow, and the hype for it’s debut is understandably high. This is a game that was announced in 1997, and is being released now in 2011, 14 years later. It’s shifted companies, engines, and release dates with reckless abandon. As a result, it can be hard to know what to expect from this high profile shooter.
