medal of honor
News
EA Talks Command & Conquer, Medal Of Honor “Digital Models”
7:00AM Michael McWhertor | In a memo to employees today, Nick Earl, EA Games Label senior VP, confirmed the closure of Pandemic Studios LA. He also touched on the new direction for two of its key franchises, Command & Conquer and Medal of Honor. More »
Rumours
Rumour: Next Medal Of Honor Set In Present Day
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Modern is the new World War II. Sources tell website MCV that the next entry in EA’s Medal of Honor series will be set in the present day. More »
News
EA To “Revitalise” Medal Of Honor, Other “Blockbusters”
12:20PM Michael McWhertor | Electronic Arts will be revealing its plans to “revitalise” its more successful franchises — specifically the Medal of Honor series — in the coming months, EA Games label president Frank Gibeau said today. More »
News
EA Boss Not Yet Ready To Talk About Next Medal Of Honor
11:20AM Michael McWhertor | EA CEO John Riccitiello made first official mention of the continuing Medal of Honor franchise today during the company’s quarterly earnings call, but gave little indication on how the series would progress. More »
Features
And Now For The Games Inspired By Summer Blockbusters…
6:00AM Luke Plunkett | We took a look yesterday at the games based on Summer’s biggest blockbuster movies. Today, let’s switch things up, and look at the games inspired by the movies. More »
Culture
Celebrate Hitler’s Birthday By Killing Him In These Games
7:30AM AJ Glasser | On this day 120 years ago, the headman behind World War II and the Holocaust was born in Austria-Hungary. He died in 1945 but lives on in video games as the eternal bad guy. More »
Britain has Septuagenarian Gamers, Too
4:00AM Owen Good | First we found a 78-year-old Japanese gamer, now there’s a 70-year-old Brit who is likewise an FPS enthusiast. He’s completed Call of Duty: World at War single-player at all difficulty levels. Gamezine has the interview. More »
EA Honors Ten Years Of ‘Medal’
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | Next year, Medal of Honour turns ten years old. Has it really been that long? Strange to think that the Medal of Honour series has been going on longer than the war that it depicts. Anyway, EA have decided to mark the occasion by releasing a boxed-set Special Edition of the 5 PC games in the series – Medal of Honour Allied Assault, Medal of Honour Spearhead, Medal of Honour Breakthrough, Medal of Honour Pacific Assault Director’s Edition, and Medal of Honour Airborne. You will also take home a soundtrack CD, strategy guides, DVD documentaries and interviews with WWII veterans (doubtless overjoyed by having their memories turned into a video game) and other MoH bits and bobs for just $39. It is out now in the US – no word yet on a rest-of-the-world release. More »
Rumour: Medal of Honor Going To Afghanistan
10:30AM Michael McWhertor | According to a report from French site JeuxVideo, the next entry in the Medal of Honor series is going to take place in modern day Afghanistan and release under the title Medal of Honor: Operation Anaconda. Details on the rumoured EA published sequel were culled from a questionnaire, passed on to JeuxVideo. The Operation Anaconda subtitle refers to the U.S. military operation of the same name, in which U.S. and Afghan forces targeted al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains of Afghanistan. MOH:OA is said by the (machine translated) survey to feature front line combat, sniper duties and “drone attack” command gameplay, as well as 60 customisable weapons. Sadly, it does not appear to feature giant anacondas, Ice Cube or the line “There’s snakes out there this big?!” Medal of Honour en Afghanistan [JeuxVideo via Joystiq] More »Ridiculous Price Of Games In Australia Gets Mainstream Attention
1:00PM Logan Booker | I often use the example of Activision doubling the price of Call of Duty 4 on Steam to illustrate how dire the “price of games” situation has become in Australia, but Andrew Ramadge of News.com.au has uncovered a better one:
… Gamers who visit the Steam and Electronic Arts websites are charged up to five times more to download popular titles like Medal Of Honour: Airborne — which Australians can buy and download for $99.95, while users in the US pay just $21.15 ($US19.95).
But you guys already know how crazy the situation is. Thank [insert deity here] for importing, right?
Yes, we can import, but that doesn’t mean everyone else should have to cough up the cash. And why should we be forced to look overseas in the first place? That just doesn’t make sense to me.
It’s unlikely prices will come down anytime soon – the publishers would vomit at the lost profits – so buying games will continue to be an online affair for us (minus Steam, of course).
The article also notes how the ACCC is powerless to do anything and, unsurprisingly, that none of the publishers were willing to talk about the problem.
Aussies paying five times more for software [News.com.au] More » 