Hands-On With Aliens: Colonial Marines

By: Charles Battersby-04.18.12-Features- Comments

The biggest cliché in video games is saving the Princess, but the second biggest is The Space Marine. Countless games have forced players to strap on the standard issue combat boots of ge... Read More

On the Shoulders of Sleeping Giants: Witcher 2 and Risen 2

By: Steven Bednarz-04.17.12-Features- Comments

On the Shoulders of Sleeping Giants aims to raise awareness to what could be a 'sleeper hit' of an upcoming game, movie, television series, or comic. Usually these works have a new installme... Read More

Hands-On With Sniper Elite v2

By: Mat Ombler-04.17.12-Features- Comments

In Sniper Elite v2, it’s 1945 and you play as Karl Fairburne; an ally Sniper positioned in Germany. The Germans have been secretly working on the V-2 rocket; the first long-range combat-ba... Read More

Will Steel Battalion Make Hardcore Gamers Buy A Kinect?

By: Charles Battersby-04.16.12-Previews- Comments

From Software's ultra hardcore mech game requires the Xbox's kid-friendly- Kinect. Is this the excuse hardcore gamers have been waiting for?... Read More

Bloodforge: Blood-soaked Action

By: Erik Chalhoub-03.12.12-Features- Comments

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 relea... Read More

The Evolution of Mass Effect

By: Ari Runanin-Telle-03.05.12-Features- Comments

The original Mass Effect was a game praised for its unique combat and storytelling, and criticized for the multitude of rough edges and poor technical designs it possessed. Mass Effect 2�... Read More

Risen 2: Hooks-On Preview

By: Charles Battersby-02.29.12-Features- Comments

Ahoy there Playarrr Affinity readers! This week we got our hooks on the upcomin’ pirate game Risen 2: Dark Waters. So tighten yer mainsails as we be explorin’ this swashbucklin’ h... Read More

Hands On With The Binary Domain Demo

By: Wilson Taylor-02.22.12-Features- Comments

Binary Domain is a cyberpunk cover-based shooting game about shooting robots in Japan while issuing commands to your teammates. This may not seem like the most compelling and original premi... Read More

Syndicate Developers Doing What's Best for the Series

By: Justin Speidel-02.20.12-Features- Comments

Starbreeze Studios, the Swedish minds behind both critically-acclaimed The Chronicles of Riddick games, are reviving a long-dormant franchise tomorrow. Syndicate will release in just a few... Read More

Syndicate: A New Perspective On Classic Cyberpunk

By: Charles Battersby-02.19.12-Features- Comments

Back in the early 90’s, the first person shooter was just getting started with games like Wolfenstein 3D, and DOOM. If you made a game about a team of gun-toting cyborgs it wasn’t go... Read More