Some gaming convention have an insufficient number of games, others have just the right amount, however there’s one annual con which always more than the needed amount of games. Too Many Games has been overwhelming players with its abundance of interactive entertainment for seven years, and now they’re back for the 2011 installment from May 6th through May eight at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks Pennsylvania.
Yesterday we had quite a few good deals on downloadable games, but today hasn’t offered many new options. However there are a couple of places offering Daily Deals which might be interest. Direct2Drive.com is putting up a new Daily Deal every day this week. Today, you can get Serious Sam: The First Encounter for half off, which makes it $4.95.
Not that many new releases out this week on PSN or in stores for PS3. Luckily, the new games we do have should keep most gamers happy, at least until next week’s fix.
Out in stores is Fight Night Champion, which is grittier and darker than its predecessors with excellent animation and visuals that help portray the brutality of boxing. The only other main new store release is Rango: The Video Game which, as the name suggests, is based on the new animated film staring the voice of Johnny Depp.
Microsoft
is going to start removing old and dead gamertags. This means that the
name you may have always wanted may be made available to you. I am
sure most of us had our first choice of a gamertag shot down. This is
your time for revenge. The news was posted on Major Nelson’s blog. The
blog post went on to say, “This process will take some time to
complete, and no we can’t tell you when the Gamertag you want might be
available.”
He
also goes on to say that if you are interested in a new gamertag, then
you should check back often because the process will take several days
to clean out all of the dead tags. If you are interested in looking for
a new gamertag, sign into Xbox Live, go to “My Xbox Channel,” and then
select the “Change Gamertag” option. From that point you can then
search for a name or have it randomly generate a name for you. But to
change your name is not free. It will cost you 800 Microsoft points or
$10.00.
Sequels are coming out on almost a bi-weekly basis, and a majority of those sequels either suck or don’t do enough iteration on their previous installment. So we here at the Player Affinity Xbox team decided to start a feature where we state what should change in the next installment of a popular (or not so popular) franchise. The game doesn’t have to be announced, it just has to be an inevitable release. Without further ado, let’s start this thing out with Assassin’s Creed 3.
Warning: Spoilers for the Assassin’s Creed franchise are below
March is off to a great start in terms of online game sales, so let’s dive right into the pile of deals. Steampowered.com has a 70% off sale on artsy indie gem Braid. This modern classic is now three dollars and highly recommended if you haven’t played it yet. But WAIT! Before you click that Steam, link, check out Onlive’s sale right now; they have Braid for a slightly lower price along with several other indie games including The Ball, The Maw, Defense Grid and Trine for about 75% off. Plus Onlive has that impressive deal where they’ll give you one of their micro consoles, and a copy of Metro 2033 for free if you pre-order Homefront.
Atlus, developers of such hits as Persona 4, Persona 3, and
Devil Summoner, has finally unveiled that their newest title, Catherine, will
be released in North America. It was fairly inevitable that the game would come
to NA but that doesn’t make this announcement any less sweet for us Atlus
lovers out there. Catherine has been released in Japan for only a few weeks.
