Toys R Us is doing something that I’ve rarely seen for a major release. Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be hitting store shelves in North America on January 31st, and the major toys retailer is currently offering $45(!) pre-orders for the $59.99 retail sequel. You can even get free shipping since it’s a special order!
Vault Dwellers and Wasteland Wanderers might have some good news to look forward to regarding the future of the Fallout franchise. Interplay (The original developers of the Fallout games) and Bethesda (Who did Fallout 3 and New Vegas) have reached a settlement in their lawsuit.
Following in the steps of games like Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (on the PS3), it looks like those who were looking to pick up the new Twisted Metal game that releases on February 14th, 2012 may be getting a little extra bang for their buck. To preface this though, the Twisted Metal franchise creator, David Jaffe, released the cover art for the vehicular combat game over the weekend, and I have to say that it does look like a pretty good piece of cover art. If ever there were a “mascot” for the franchise, it would have to be Sweet Tooth (the clown that has fire coming out of his head), and he is looking particularly demonic in this iteration of the game.
Player Affinity’s PC staff has logged a good thousand hours in Skyrim between us all, and by the time we’ve scoured the land of Tamriel for every last wedge of cheese we’ll be well into 2012. By that time a whole new slew of must-play games will be on shelves waiting to devour our precious time. Here are the ones that we’re most looking forward to playing.
We’re still trying to catch up on all the great games that hit in 2011, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already excited about what the future holds for our favorite console. Player Affinity’s Xbox Department takes a look at the upcoming crop of new games and which ones Xbox owners should keep their eyes on.
For the last six weeks there have non-stop deals at every digital distributor on the net, but this bonanza is about to come to its end, and cheap gamers only have a few hours left to stock up on cut rate entertainment before it’s back to paying sixty bucks a pop for new games.
In
a recent Disney newsletter, Epic Mickey 2
was seemingly confirmed, but the announcement was quickly removed. According to the
newsletter, Epic Mickey 2 will be
released in the fall of 2012, and will be released across all platforms, not
just the Wii, like the first game was.
