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LocoRoco Music Makes Battlefield 1943 Better
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Maybe not better—the game’s already great—but better. “Yakety Sax”, too. ???? ?????????1943 ????? [??????????]
Hands On
5:00AM Brian Ashcraft | EA DICE, the developers behind Mirror’s Edge and Battlefield 1942, bring us Battlefield 1943, a PSN and Xbox LIVE Arcade digital-only downloadable first person shooter set against the backdrop of World War II’s Pacific front. More »
Battlefield 1943: Battling In The Pacific
5:00AM Brian Ashcraft | EA DICE, the developers behind Mirror’s Edge and Battlefield 1942, bring us Battlefield 1943, a PSN and Xbox LIVE Arcade digital-only downloadable first person shooter set against the backdrop of World War II’s Pacific front. More »
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Battlefield Heroes 1 Million
12:20AM Mike Fahey | EA is quickly discovering the joys of free-to-play games as web-based Battlefield Heroes surpasses the one million player mark right out of the gate. More »
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“Small Team” Working On Mirror’s Edge 2
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Liked Parkour-inspired first-person action title Mirror’s Edge? It’s getting a sequel. More »
Frankenreview: Mirror’s Edge (PC)
4:00AM Mike Fahey | While the console versions of EA DICE’s ambitious first-person action adventure game Mirror’s Edge might have slipped past the Frankenreview monster, the recently released PC version encounters no such luck.
‘Just Kick A Guy In The Nuts And Take His Gun’
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Mirror’s Edge may have shooting, but it’s not a shooting game. Main character Faith is agile, but fragile and vulnerable. If she’s going to leap across a huge space in buildings, she can’t do it with a gun. Faith needs to put it down, first. Website Kikizo asked developer EA DICE if it considered letting players throwing the gun across the gap to use later. According to the game’s producer Manuel Llines:
Bad Company Conquest Mode Coming This Week
3:40AM Mike Fahey | EA DICE is making good on the promise of free DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company they made back in April of this year, introducing an all-new game mode to mix things up for players this Thursday. conquest Mode, first seen back in Battlefield 1942, pits two opposing teams against each other in a race to deplete the other team’s tickets. Killing an enemy takes off one ticket, while capturing and holding certain objectives can be a major drain on the opposition. While it’s only slightly different from the Gold Rush mode that came with the game – it plays out on the same maps – it does add just a bit of variety to the game’s already rich multiplayer experience. Plus, you finally have an excuse for just wandering all over the map killing random people instead of going after / protecting the enemy’s gold. Look for the update this Thursday for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. More »
The Magical Disappearing Battlefield: Bad Company Stats
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Battlefield: Bad Company players around the world just about had a heart attack last night as they logged onto the game to discover their ranks, unlocks, and medals had all been completely reset. Purchasers of the Gold Edition of the game even found that their five very special guns they got for paying an extra $US 10 had disappeared. Oh no! What are we to do when our stats are erased!? In the words of the greatest literary mind of our time, don’t panic. My stats were down last night as well, and when I logged into the game just a half hour ago, everything was back to normal. This was an issue that occured on a regular basis with Battlefield 2, and we can probably assume that it will happen on and off with Bad Company as well. The servers go down, and when they come back up it takes time for all of the stats to return. You didn’t really think EA DICE would screw up that big, did you? More »Battlefield: Bad Company Review: Going For The Gold
4:30AM Mike Fahey | I’ve always been of two minds regarding EA DICE’s Battlefield series. While I’ve enjoyed countless hours finding creative ways to destroy my fellow players in gigantic military conflicts, overall the games lacked a certain charisma. The sort of personality and immersion that can only come from having experienced a compelling backstory to the conflict you’re involved in. Just like the Metal Gear Online experience is enhanced by playing through MGS4, Battlefield needed a story mode to add a little life to the party. Battlefield: Bad Company addresses just that issue, adding a full single-player experience to the Battlefield series, complete with colourful characters and questionable moral choices on top of the usual multiplayer mayhem. It’s uncharted waters for EA DICE – lets see if they sink or swim. More »Battlefield: Bad Company Hits Australian Shelves Tomorrow
11:00AM Logan Booker | EA DiCE has pushed out yet another game as part of its Battlefield franchise – Battlefield: Bad Company. It’s set for simultaneous release in Oz and the US on Thursday.
Bad Company represents two firsts for the series – a proper, story-based single player campaign, and release on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, with the PC nowhere to be seen. It seems a slap in the face to PC gamers who have religiously bought the Battlefield games in the hopes of decent single player. Them’s the breaks I suppose.
Two versions of the game will be available for purchase – the regular and Gold editions. The differences can be found at EA’s website.
Full release after the jump. More » 