Whether or not you consider Todd Phillips] Due Date an homage to or a rip-off of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles depends largely on if you think it’s funny. I do. Both are great examples of a road trip comedy, featuring excellent performances from both leading actors.
Battlefield Play4Free is exactly what you probably think it is. Electronic Arts already has a free to play version of the series, the cartoonyBattlefield Heroes, which is currently running. Now they’ve announced the next version of the game to use the play online for free plan, but will have a more realistic design scheme, and will use a modern day setting more akin to Battlefield Bad Company, or Battlefield 2. The game is set to go live in Spring of 2011, with a beta test starting later this month.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was released as a challenge to the hugely popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, keeping its unique Battlefield teamwork and coordination celebrated in previous titles in the series but introducing gameplay on a smaller and more directed scale. Streamlined to a degree, with smaller maps and more limited objectives, the latest BF title allowed for greater detail and interaction with the environment and opened up new strategies and tactics that were absent in larger and more empty landscapes. Basically acting as almost a reboot to the series via gameplay and graphics, it comes as no surprise that, like BF1942 before it, BF: BC2 has in the works a Vietnam expansion that is sure to impress.
So you thought you’d have to wait until March 2011 to get your chainmail-clad hands on the next Dragon Age game? Think again because, EA is releasing a browser-based 2d Dragon Age game on Facebook this February. It’s true that Facebook games are all crap, but this one at least shows promise, and even if you hate it, forcing yourself to play through will unlock stuff in Dragon Age II.
It’s a Trailer Tracker with a foreign flavour this week on Player Affinity with two British crime thrillers:
During an investors briefing on Friday, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS “Shop Channel”. This channel provides a peek at some of the advancements Nintendo hopes to make in its online offerings. The Shop Channel is where 3DS owners will turn to when they are looking to download 3DS-ware and Virtual Console games for their tri-dimensional handheld, and it seems like Nintendo looks to make the purchasing process less painful than ever.
During an investors briefing on Friday, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS “Shop Channel”. This channel provides a peek at some of the advancements Nintendo hopes to make in its online offerings. The Shop Channel is where 3DS owners will turn to when they are looking to download 3DS-ware and Virtual Console games for their tri-dimensional handheld, and it seems like Nintendo looks to make the purchasing process less painful than ever.
Beginning in 2004, the Saw franchise has been synonymous with Halloween weekend. Although it is typically categorized as horror, Saw and its sequels are actually gruesome thrillers with intricate plots and twisted endings. The latest entry ups the ante with additional traps, welcomes flashbacks of Jigsaw and returning characters from previous installments. Saw fanatics are a feisty brood and they will no doubt enjoy, albeit with bittersweet ambivalence, the final chapter to the long-running series.
The highest grossing horror franchise is sadly coming to an end. In 2004, Saw solidified a new form of modern horror that exploits torture as a central stomach-turner. Produced for very little money, Saw turned heads with a hands-off killer in John Kramer who is a mere mortal dying of cancer aiming to teach people the value of life (or so he says). Jigsaw, as he is otherwise known, sets up elaborate games to make his “subjects” adopt a new way of thinking. I’ve been given the glorious task of identifying the most memorable trap of each entry. Let’s start from the beginning (spoilers throughout).
