DICE and EA today announced that the highly-anticipated action blockbuster Battlefield 4 will be available this holiday for early-adopters of the next-generation hardware systems: Xbox One and the PlayStation4. Powered by the advanced Frostbite 3 engine, Battlefield 4 delivers a genre-defining all-out war experience brought to life with unmatched visual and audio...
Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that it has developed EA SPORTS IGNITE, a new game engine that will power EA SPORTS games on Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PlayStation4. Fuelled by EA SPORTS IGNITE, EA SPORTS games will be alive with players who think, move, and behave like real athletes and dynamic living worlds,...
Namco Bandai’s PR director Lee Kirton told OXM, ”The good thing this time round is we’re investing more in it from a marketing perspective.” “With Dark Souls and [PS3-exclusive spiritual predecessor] Demon Souls it was very focused, small-scale. We’re treating this as a massive, massive triple-A title.” “We’re...
Codemasters has revealed all tracks you’ll find in GRID 2. The game is out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in North America on May 28 and in Europe on May 31. Al Sufouh Strip, Dubai [Day & Night] Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong [Sunset] Arc De Triomphe, Paris [Day & Night] Art Deco Loop, Miami [Sunset] Avenue De New-York, Paris [Day & Night] Big Sur, California...
Today Codemasters released a new GRID 2 gameplay video that showcases the game’s intense Drift events and reveals key Asian locations, including the addition of Hong Kong, set to feature in the game. The ‘World Series Racing 3: Asia – New Frontiers’ video focuses on the Asian cars, clubs and locations set to star in GRID 2. Racers earn points for style and...
Grand Theft Auto V will not be shown off at this year’s E3, Roackstar has confirmed, via Seeking Alpha. ”This year, our labels will not have a booth on the show floor,” said Take-Two president Karl Slatoff dduring the publisher’s FY13 results last night. “Both Rockstar Games and 2K have instead decided to focus their marketing and PR efforts...
On May 15, the Dreadnought OverRun map for Gears of War: Judgment will be free for a limited time. Dreadnought In the months immediately following Emergence Day, the COG managed to capture some Locust Berserkers. Thinking that a ship at sea would be safe from an underground enemy, the COG decided to transport their prize to a secure research facility via the CNV...
2K Marin has shared the debut gameplay trailer and new screenshots for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. “The year is 1962. John F. Kennedy is president of the United States, and we our relationship with the USSR is at its coldest. Formed in secret to react immediately to a foreign invasion, The Bureau stands ready to clandestinely protect the American public....
In an interview with JP McDaniel, via PcgamesN, on his show, Real Talk, Greg “IdrA” Fields, announced that he would no longer be a competitive gamer. “That is what drove me in pro gaming, especially in StarCraft 2,” Fields told JP. I don’t particularly enjoy the game but I really liked beating people and now that’s just, well, I’m not winning nearly...
Sony’s upcoming PS4 marketing campaign skript leaked to Siliconera. The PS4 commercial begins by showing an empty road in a small town. A lone guy walks down the road towards the camera and says, “Who are you not to be great? You, with the imagination of a brilliant child and the powers of an ancient god. “Who are you to be ordinary? You, who could get...
In an interview with VG247, Ubisoft Reflections managing director Pauline Jacquey talks about the development process and parts of the game they worked on. “You’ll see most of our work at E3,” Jacquey said “When you enter a building within the game – we’ve created it – so like a shop, pharmacy or any building you can enter. “When you have a driving...
Total War: Rome 2 will be released at retail and digitally worldwide on September 3, 2013, SEGA has announced. In addition Sega also announced Rome 2′s Collector’s Edition, which will be available only in a limited production run of 22,000 individually numbered boxed copies. The $154.99 set contains the game in a Steelbook case, as well as the following...
Bethesda has confirmed that its recently announced Wolfenstein: The New Order will not include multiplayer. Speaking to Gamespot, creative director Jens Matthies said, “It’s such a huge part of video game legacy. If there’s a video game museum, Wolfenstein is in the first room. It’s the start of the wave that shaped the world of gaming. On a personal...
Video game startup OUYA today announced $15 million in new funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures, and Occam Partners. OUYA’s vision for a new kind of game console, open to all game developers, was brought to life through the support of early backers who crowdfunded the initial...
Electronic Arts has registered domain names for Battlefield 13-20. Spotted by Fusible. EA owns most of the Battlefield domains between one and 20 now. “As of today, EA now owns Battlefield.com, Battlefield2.com – Battlefield9.com, and Battlefield13.com – Battlefield20.com. Battlefield10.com – Battlefield12.com are owned by other parties, not associated...
In an interview with EDGE, The Elder Scrolls Online’s game director Matt Firor says, We’re making an Elder Scrolls game, but we’re not making Skyrim 2. So I think the Skyrim guys had that same problem when they went from Oblivion to Skyrim: “Your last thing was Oblivion, how could you possibly top that?” We’re not trying to ‘top’ Skyrim. [It’s]...
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuei Yoshida in a chat with Game Informer Magazine: “Did we consider it? No, we didn’t consider it,” ”The main reason being that many countries don’t have robust Internet connections. It makes sense for people to have internet connections to play online games, but for offline games there are many countries that...
DICE has confirmed that its Battlefield 3 and Battlelog outages are caused by a series of external attacks. The studio confirmed via Twitter that “the current Battlefield 3 and Battlelog outages are a result of activity that appears to be aimed at overwhelming our game servers.” They added, “we are working on a variety of solutions to address this problem...
