Video Games

Penniless Gamer – Games for the Frugal 360 Owner

It’s the end of the year and all of your shopping is done. Chances are you are probably broke, and maybe you did not pull in the haul of games that you thought you were going to get. Now you have expended most of your funds and your game shelf is looking a little bare. Here are a few good Xbox 360 games that will not break the bank.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Released in October of this year, Enslaved received mostly positive reviews from critics, including a score of 9.0 from Player Affinity’s own Jay Malone.Enslaved is a contemporary spin on the classic Chinese folk tale Journey to the West and can be yours right now for only $20 on Amazon.

PC Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2011: Part 2

2010 was a great year for the PC gamer to be sure, but as always in the gaming industry, the future looks brighter with every new announcement. 2011 may be a bit lean on PC exclusives, but there sure are games to be preferably played on a keyboard and mouse. The games on this list have both the potential to be great or disappointing, but I can’t wait to see how they turn out. 

Xbox 360 Games to Expect in January

ilomilo is a cutesy puzzle game involving two protagonists that have forged a new friendship. They’re only problem is, each day they try to meet at the park to hang, they have tons of obstacles in their way. You play as both Ilo and Milo (switching between the two as you play) solving the treacherous puzzles along the way. ilomilo will be released January 5^th on Xbox Live Arcade game. Expect Player Affinity’s review on January 4^th.

The Other Games of 2010

When you get a bunch of people together and tell them to agree on what the best games of the year were, no one is going to leave the room completely happy. Personal favorites fall by the wayside when a consensus has to be reached, and while we stand by all of our selections for the various awards we came up with, we all have stuff we’d like to see get recognized that would otherwise fall through the cracks. So here we are: the members of the PS3 team and the games that may not have been the best all year, but are close to our hearts. These are our favorite games that didn’t manage to win any of the awards.

Raskulls Review

It’s been a great year for the Xbox Live Arcade. Limbo, Scott Pilgrim, and Comic Jumper represent some of the great titles we got this year. Now Halfbrick wishes to jump in, and make Raskulls part of the list. However can Raskulls fit in the shoes of it’s peers?

Vagrant Story and Xenogears Coming to PSN

Two PSOne classics from Square Enix, Xenogears and Vagrant Story, are on there way to the Playstation Network in the US.Vagrant Story was an action/adventure RPG first released in 2000 and developed by the same team who made Final Fantasy Tactics. Xenogears came out in 1998 and was an RPG with a complex science-fiction story. Both games were well received by the critics when they first came out.

PC Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2011: Part 1

The coming year brings with it a bright future for PC games. As I’ve previewed some games that are planned to come out next year, I’ve come across several that have definitely piqued my interest and that I’m sure will be hits. First up is the tantalizing Dragon Age II, a game that sounds like its dealt the original’s problems and reformed the style of play to encompass a set of much deeper RPG mechanics. Also on my horizon is another Bioware title, Mass Effect III. After the seamless and beautifully cinematic Mass Effect II, an amazing improvement over the issues of the first game, Mass Effect III will doubtless be even more improved and balanced. The last game I’m interested in is Star Wars: The Old Republic, which also happens to be a Bioware game; it just goes to show the quality of the releases is consistent and well-developed across the board. SW: TOR follows a legacy built up in Bioware’s other TOR single-player games, allowing for expansive lore to draw from for material, as well as solid mechanics that they can rely on.