multiplayer
News
Valve’s Multiplayer Calculus: (360 = PC) > PS3
5:00AM Owen Good | More provocative tidbits continue to trickle out of Valve, with the Left 4 Dead 2 project lead saying that game won’t be coming to PS3 because the console’s multiplayer community isn’t on par with PC and the Xbox 360. More »
Culture
Developer: The Bosses Mandated Our Unnecessary Multiplayer Mode
8:00AM Stephen Totilo | Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the developers don’t want it. As explained in a recent inside story about the Midway Stranglehold team. More »
Rumours
And Here Are The Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Perks
12:30PM Owen Good | Well, fresh on the heels of the killstreak list, we’ve got another claim to the multiplayer perk set. You know the drill, rumour, not official, spoiler alert. More »
Media
25 Kill Streak In MW2 Delivers You A Really Big Bang
9:30AM Owen Good
Multiplayer spoiler alert, I guess. Should you be awesome enough to rack up 25 straight kills in Modern Warfare 2, the game gives you a superweapon from which there is no escape. Not even for the guy who uses it. More »
News
First Brutal Legend DLC Free On PS3
2:20AM Mike Fahey | The age of downloadable content dawns in Brutal Legend next month, when the Tears of the Hextadon map pack goes on sale for 400 Microsoft points — or completely free for PlayStation 3 owners. More »
Hands On
3:40AM AJ Glasser | Army of Two: The 40th Day goes out of its way to carry the cooperative experience through all of its competitive multiplayer modes, but thankfully this doesn’t mean endless team deathmatches. More »
Army Of Two: The 40th Day Multiplayer Preview
3:40AM AJ Glasser | Army of Two: The 40th Day goes out of its way to carry the cooperative experience through all of its competitive multiplayer modes, but thankfully this doesn’t mean endless team deathmatches. More »
News
9:00AM Owen Good | In a webcast this morning, Robert Bowling revealed the existence of IWNet, a matchmaking service Infinity Ward will operate beginning with Modern Warfare 2. But it ends dedicated servers, and fundamentally changes the culture of the game’s PC community. More »
New Modern Warfare Matchmaking Service Will “Definitely” Reshape PC Community
9:00AM Owen Good | In a webcast this morning, Robert Bowling revealed the existence of IWNet, a matchmaking service Infinity Ward will operate beginning with Modern Warfare 2. But it ends dedicated servers, and fundamentally changes the culture of the game’s PC community. More »
News
2:40PM Owen Good | Modern Warfare 2 was due to have a full co-operative mode in its main campaign, but the Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling told VG247 that it “ruined the experience” of the game. More »
Why Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Co-Op Was Scrubbed
2:40PM Owen Good | Modern Warfare 2 was due to have a full co-operative mode in its main campaign, but the Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling told VG247 that it “ruined the experience” of the game. More »
Hands On
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Multiplayer Preview
12:40PM AJ Glasser | I’m glad Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron’s space-to-ground transitions made it into the multiplayer — there was some initial confusion about whether or not the PSP Infrastructure could handle it. More »
Hands On
