At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long “game jam” after the game’s release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And that was the tip of the iceberg. More »
Anyone who’s been watching EA knows that the publisher’s going to be tethering portable spin-offs to its big releases. Last year’s Dead Space game for iOS and Android proved such games could be great and yesterday we saw the debut of Mass Effect Infiltrator. This sector’s a big deal for EA. More »
Over the past week, a ton of innocent Battlefield 3 gamers have been wrongly banned from the game, the result of a hack movement protesting the use of (ahem) anti-cheat software. More »
The people at the game-hacking site Artificial Aiming can’t stand the anti-cheat service Punkbuster. One of their members is going on the offensive today — aggressively. More »
The first time I heard “I’m getting my shit pushed in!” during a multiplayer match of Battlefield 3 was from the mouth of an acquaintance in Party chat. I assumed he and his friends were laughing at how ridiculous it sounded, because robbed of context it did sound pretty funny. More »
Gameplay as cinema? Sure, it can work, especially when it’s as entertaining as Run, a short clip put together by YouTube user JackFrags. More »
This fan-made Battlefield 3 movie is impressive in that they’ve got some realistic-looking gear and capture the little nuances of the game perfectly. More »
There are sections of EA’s blockbuster Battlefield 3 in which the player controls an American soldier fighting on the streets of Tehran. It went down pretty well in most places, but Iran isn’t most places. More »
Battlefield 3′s Back to Karkand expansion pack is live in Europe and hits the rest of the world this afternoon, if you own the Playstation 3. PC and Xbox 360 owners will need to wait until December 13. More »
Funding video games is great and all, but lets not forget tabletop gaming, especially when it involves dice you can eat. Actually all this is, is funding the creation of dice you can eat, but that’s enough for me. More »
