From Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City to Mass Effect 3, video game developers are letting players choose to kill off some of the most important characters in their franchises. We here at Player Affinity don’t wish harm on anyone, especially our beloved video game characters. But sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we can’t help but wish the worse, even death, on certain video game characters.
The news all Skyrim fans have been eagerly awaiting: Todd Howard has announced the first batch of DLC arriving monthly beginning in June. The first DLC pack for Skyrim features a massive thirty two player online battle mode, where Dragon Born are allowed to use their fists in frenzied bare knuckle combat.
Peter Molyneux is gone! Fable Heroes and Fable The Journey are barely recognizable when compared to the previous games in the series! What’s going to happen to this beloved Xbox series?
Player Affinity’s Andy Borkowski speaks with the leader of the RetakeME3 organization who are petitioning Bioware to alter the controversial ending of Bioware’s Mass Effect 3. In this 20 minute audio interview they discuss the movement’s goals and motivations.
Player Affinity takes a look at the four “Heavy Hitters” from Irrational Games upcoming Bioshock prequel Bioshock Infinite. Can the Motorized Patriot, Handyman, Boys of Silence and Siren compete with the iconic Big Daddy?
In honor of St Patrick’s Day, we pay tribute to the role booze has played in video games. From drunked squirrels to mead-chugging Dragon Born, here are some of the virtual lives that have nearly been ruined by the Devil in a bottle.
Mass Effect 3 has arrived and with it came what would seem like the end of the galaxy. The Reapers have come however the Galaxy is at War and is not giving up without a fight. One of the most controversial issues that came with Mass Effect 3, aside from the issues with Fem-Shep, was the inclusion of Multiplayer. It seemed as though the bug that has been running rampant through the gaming world had finally hit home for me. Do not get me wrong I love Multiplayer gaming, it allows a connection to people and being competitive which is natural for as as a species. But when I am playing a single player game, I want to play a single player game. Mass Effect (the series as a whole) is one of my favorite single player games and placing multiplayer into such a perfect formula seemed to me to be blasphemy. However Galaxy at War is an addictive and well added piece of this formula.
Welcome back and it seems like it has been forever since Achievement Unlocked has brought the best and worst of the Gamerscore for the week. This week we see the release of the next installment of arguably the scariest game series of all time Silent Hill: Downpour. Coupled with this we find Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, which takes us through all of the big moments of the series, and FIFA Street. Birds of Steel rounds out the retail releases and Defenders of Ardania and Shoot Many Robots dropped onto the marketplace.
What hardcore gamer doesn’t love a good, bloody massacre? Bloodforge, shown recently at GDC 2012, looks to live up to the “blood” in its name. Developed by Climax Studios, with a release date in April, Bloodforge puts you in the role of Crom, a bloodthirsty protagonist seeking revenge for the death of his wife, who he killed himself through deception from the gods. Set in a Celtic world, Crom must defeat demonic soldiers and gods in the bloodiest manner possible.
There was a lot of news coming out of the Game Developers Conference this week, but most of it was easily predicted or unimpressive. There was one new project that took us by surprise, and it isn’t even a new game. It’s a tech demo called KARA by Quantic Dream.
