Video Games

Red Dead Meets Undead, DLC Now Available

Rockstar is getting in the Halloween spirit a little early. The much anticipated Red Dead Redmeption DLC, Undead Nightmare, is now available on Xbox Live and PSN marketplaces.

Rockstar is getting in the Halloween spirit a little early. The much anticipated Red Dead Redmeption DLC, Undead Nightmare, is now available on Xbox Live and PSN marketplaces.

That’s right, John Marston rides again and this time it’s up to him to discover the cure for the walking dead. As well as a lengthy single player zombie themed adventure, Undead Nightmare also comes with a new multiplayer mode, new types of challenges and missions; as well as new weapons designed for combating the dead.

Champions Online Will Become Free To Play

It’s been a little over a year since the superhero MMORPG Champions Online appeared to tepid reviews and limited consumer interest. There have been several free updates to the game during the last year that have improved gameplay substantially, and developer Cryptic Studios have made the game available for trial in a variety of ways, including a time-limited trial on Steam, and the current system in which players have unlimited play-time in a very restricted demo zone.  It was announced today that they will switch to a free-to-play model in early 2011, with a closed beta starting November 9th.

Spooky Sales All Week Long

This week we’ll skip our usual Tuesday and Friday sales reports and instead cover the terrifying daily deals that are being held by several download sites to gear up for Halloween weekend.  Direct2Drive.com and Steam are each putting a different game on sale every day, all week long, and several other sites are holding big sales on horror games, so check back here each afternoon this week for Player Affinity’s round-up.

PC Peripherals: Project Tuatara Interview

Last week Player Affinity did a round-up of gadgets shown at the New York Comic Con, and one of the things which impressed us most was a PC peripheral codenamed “Project Tuatara”. In short, Tuatara is a motion-sensing wireless controller that replaces your mouse and keyboard, and has a built in wireless projector which replaces your monitor.  It senses where you aim and projects the game directly in front of you on the wall, floor or ceiling.  We spoke with David Lashmet the Global Product Manager for Advanced Applications at Microvision, makers of Project Tuatara.

Hot Pursuit Demo to Make Quick Getaway

Need for Speed fans should race to the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow as the demo for the series’ latest game will only be available for a limited time.

EA will make the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo available tomorrow, but will remove it from the marketplace on Nov. 9. The publisher has not given an explanation for the demo’s limited availability at this time, though it does include access to the “autolog” feature which acts similar to a social networking site, in that it lets you keep track of your friends’ performance in the game.

NBA Jam Switches Gears

Dragon Age Ultimate Edition Now Available

Last year’s award-wining fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins by Bioware certainly came with “Enough” content, right out of the box, yet Bioware persisted in a continuous torrent of expansion packs and downloadable content, right up the last month’s final installment Witch Huntwhich brought the story to its conclusion.  Some gamers were happy for the additional material, others felt that it should have been included in the game in the first place, while the most-clever Bioware fans kept our mouths shut and waited for the inevitable Game Of The Year Edition which would compile it all in one box at a nice discount.