Do you think DICE’s Battlefield 3 beta was a success? If their recently revealed numbers are to be believed, then why yes it was!
In a post in the Official Battlefield Blog, a handy-dandy graph shows off some of the beta’s most impressive …
The Professor Layton games have seen huge success on Nintendo’s DS, and the folks behind them are bringing the series to Apple’s iOS for the first time.
Level-5 announced the news at an event in Japan. The game coming to iOS isn’t a p…
Halo Anniversary is due out next month. It’s been known for a while now that the game will use Kinect in some shape or form, but exactly what the camera peripheral will be used for has remained a mystery. Until now, that is!
343 Industries announ…
Once again there’s a 10th anniversary coming up that seems to exist solely for the purpose of reminding me that I’m getting old. It may be hard to believe, but the Halo franchise is now ten years old. You’ve probably heard that 343 Industries are remaking Halo: Combat Evolved for the Xbox 360 in order to celebrate the occasion. The game’s achievements list recently appeared online. Check it out below: The Silent Cartographer (25G) – Complete the level “The Silent Cartographer” on any difficulty. Assault on the Control Room (25G) – Complete the level “Assault on the Control Room” on any difficulty. Pillar of Autumn (25G) – Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on any difficulty. Halo (25G) – Complete the level “Halo” on any difficulty. Truth and Reconciliation (25G) – Complete the level “Truth and Reconciliation” on any difficulty. 343 Guilty Spark (25G) – Complete the level “343 Guilty Spark” on any difficulty. The Library (25G) – Complete the level “The Library” on any difficulty. Two Betrayals (25G) – Complete the level “Two Betrayals” on any difficulty. Keyes (25G) – Complete the level “Keyes” on any difficulty. The Maw (25G) – Complete the level “The Maw” on any difficulty. Tsantsa (50G) – Complete any level with at least three skulls active on Heroic difficulty or higher. What have we here? (10G) – Read a terminal. Heavy Reading (25G) – Read half the terminals hidden throughout the campaign. Dear Diary… (50G) – Read all of the terminals hidden throughout the campaign. Looks like the Oddball (10G) – Find your first campaign skull. Skulls Taken! (25G) – Locate half of the skulls hidden throughout the campaign. Headhunter (50G) – Locate all the skulls hidden throughout the campaign. Birth of a Spartan (10G) – Complete every level of the game on Normal difficulty. Believe in a Hero (20G) – Complete every level of the game on Heroic difficulty. Living Legend (50G) – Complete every level of the game on Legendary difficulty. Standard Operating Brocedure (10G) – Complete any level on Normal difficulty cooperatively. Brovershield (20G) – Complete any level on Heroic difficulty cooperatively. Bro Hammer (50G) – Complete any level on Legendary difficulty cooperatively. He’s Unstoppable! (20G) – Complete any level on Heroic difficulty or higher without taking health damage. Overshields are for Sissies (10G) – Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on Legendary without picking up an Overshield. Walk it Off (25G) – Complete the level “Pillar of Autumn” on Legendary without picking up a health kit. No-Fly Zone (10G) – Destroy three of the four Banshees on “Halo” on any difficulty during a single play-through. How Pedestrian (25G) – Complete the level “Halo” on any difficulty without entering a vehicle. Close Quarters Combat (25G) – Complete the level “Truth and Reconciliation” with at least four rounds left in your Sniper Rifle. I’ll Be Taking That! (25G) – Pilot a Banshee on the level “Assault on the Control Room.” This One’s for Jenkins! (10G) – Kill 50 Flood Combat Forms on…
Are you anxious to play Battlefield 3? You’re not the only one. To tide you over, the official BattlefieldBlog has revealed the game’s complete map list with descriptions for each. It’s been stated that all maps will support all game types, but not every map will have vehicles and will vary greatly in size. It’s also worth mentioning that console players will see a down-scaled version of the map – which is understandable since the PC version will have a minimum of 32 players in a match with the biggest map capping out at 64 players. The console version will feature 24 players across all maps and game modes. Operation Firestorm FICTION> U.S. AND RUSSIA LAUNCH LARGE-SCALE ASSAULTS TO CONTROL IRAN’S BIGGEST SOURCE OF OIL. SECURING THIS AREA WILL OFFER FULL CONTROL OF THE SECTOR AND ITS KEY FACILITIES. DESIGN THOUGHTS: One of our largest and most vehicle-friendly map, Operation Firestorm is the classic Battlefield gameplay taken to the extremes. Size-wise, and with some puzzle skills, you could actually place three Atacama Deserts — one of the largest maps from Battlefield: Bad Company 2 — within the playable area of Operation Firestorm. This is a wide-open desert map where the burning oil fields in one direction are contrasted by clear blue sky in the other direction. Construction sites dotting the area bring interesting possibilities for infantry to hide in elevated positions, spot vehicles, and take them down by mortar or RPG. Operation Metro FICTION> HEAVY FIGHTING IS EXPECTED AS U.S. FORCES PUSH TO SECURE THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT IN CENTRAL PARIS. RUSSIAN ANTI-AIR EMPLACEMENTS IN CHARDONNAY PARK ARE LIKELY TO BE THE FIRST TARGET. DESIGN THOUGHTS: Operation Métro is the map from E3 and the Open Beta, so some of you are familiar with it already. It is a map that perfectly illustrates that we want to take our players on a journey. Especially in Rush, you can see how Operation Métro is almost three maps within one: You start out in a lush park, then move into a bombed-out section of the subway tunnels, to finally emerge in a dense urban environment outside the Paris stock exchange. It’s a map that asks you to constantly adapt your class and load out for the diverse situations you will find yourself in. Tehran Highway FICTION> A FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF ACCESS ROUTES NEAR TEHRAN. U.S. FORCES MAKE A PUSH FROM THE HILLS UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS WHILE RUSSIANS HAVE SET UP DEFENSIVE POSITIONS ALONG THE MAIN ENTRANCE POINTS. DESIGN THOUGHTS: One of the inspirations for this map was a photo of a night time skyline of Tehran which now is basically the same vista that is available in the game. You start up on the hills above the city outskirts and eventually work your way into town. This atmospheric night-time map, where you can see rockets lighting up the sky, has a balanced mix between vehicle and infantry focus. It plays length-wise and starts semi-open with plenty of room for vehicles, but ends on a much more urban and…
Each week, we'll be posting a round-up of the reviews that have been added to the site over the prior five days. Along with our assessment of all the most important new releases, we'll also be adding older reviews over time, eventually building up to a full archive of every review we've published. Each week, we'll be posting a round-up of the reviews that have been added to the site over the prior five days. Along with our assessment of all the most important new Read more...
Indie PSN hit PixelJunk Eden will be released on Steam next week, developer Q-Games has announced. Kotaku reports that Eden will be priced at $9.99 on Steam, and a 17-song soundtrack featuring Japanese multimedia artist Baiyon will also be available, for $5.99. http://kotaku.com/5879854/pixeljunk-venturing-from-psn-to-steam Kotaku Indie PSN hit PixelJunk Eden will be released on Steam next week, developer Q-Games has announced. Kotaku reports that Eden will be priced at $9.99 Read more...
The Bard once said, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet – and while I agree with that statement in a general manner, surely a console name like the Nintendo Wii U would affect a small minority out there that would only purchase a console based on the coolness level of its name? Word on the street from a Nintendo insider has it that the Japanese company is considering a rebadging of their upcoming Wii U console, and might just call it something else. Right now, we will Read more...
A virtual keyboard is just that – technically speaking, you are not supposed to be able to feel the keys when your fingers glide all over them as you type in the necessary characters to form that long Word document, right? Not so if Apple has their way, perhaps some time down the road. It seems that Apple did apply for a patent which details a system that employs coded magnets and ferrofluids, resulting in haptic feedback on a touchscreen or virtual keyboard. For example, a coded magnet Read more...
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The Federal High Court in Ethiopia has dropped a life sentence on expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle. Kifle’s occupation is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review, where he was sentenced without being present at the courtroom. While there were whispers going around earlier that he could very well be handed down the death penalty which is the maximum for his alleged crime of “political terrorism” in Ethiopia, I am quite sure that he and his Read more...
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Microsoft’s involvement in the motion controlled gaming market comes in the form of the Kinect, and they intend to bring things up another notch with the Kinect laptop. The Daily in the UK managed to take a gander at a couple of prototype devices from ASUS which are powered by the Windows 8 operating system, boasting Kinect sensors that are located at the top of the display, while a set of LEDs will run along the bottom, although it will be nothing quite like KITT from Knight Rider. No Read more...
Who would have thought that a company like Qualcomm would actually own a game studio? And here I was, under my comfortable coconut shell, thinking that processors were the staple of Qualcomm’s products. Mobile gamers could be familiar with the GameCommand video game portal, where it rolled out earlier this month, and will enable Android device owners to choose an entire bunch of titles which have been optimized for the slew of devices running on Snapdragon chips and Adreno GPUs. Read more...
The BlackBerry PlayBook is dead, long live the BlackBerry PlayBook. Well, here is something interesting that you might want to look into – the BlackBerry 3G+ Playbook, which is not yet announced officially, but rather, there are whispers of this particular tablet based on leaked and rumored information. It does seem as though this particular device is a 3G-enabled version of the BlackBerry PlayBook that is powered by the QNX platform, and instead of calling it a 4G tablet outright, it Read more...
Prior to Samsung’s earning’s call, the Samsung Galaxy S3 was a rumored device, albeit a rumor that many seemed to buy into given the success of its predecessors, the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S2. Well if you needed more evidence that the Samsung Galaxy S3 does exist, you might be interested to hear that a Samsung executive revealed that the launch of the Galaxy S3 was still under review, and an exact date has yet to be decided. If that wasn’t enough, how about a certain Samsung GT-i9300 Read more...
Three years and hundreds of thousands of apps later, which are the games that deserve your attention? It's far from exhaustive, of course – and we'd love to hear your own recommendations in the comments thread below – but here's our selection of 50 of the best games on iOS and why we think they deserve your time. You can read our in-depth article, of which this list forms part, in issue 236 of Edge. read more Read more...
Valve has released a Steam app for iOS and Android devices. The app, which has been released in closed beta, lets users chat with friends, browse community groups and user profiles, and view the latest screenshots and user-generated content. It also contains the latest gaming news and information on Steam sales. http://store.steampowered.com/mobile Steam Valve has released a Steam app for iOS and Android devices. The app, which has been released in closed beta, lets users chat Read more...
Heads up Pokemon Black/White players! If you happen to own a copy of either the Black/White version of Pokemon on your Nintendo DS, you’re in luck as it would appear that the Mewtwo Pokemon character will be making its way into the game come February 2012. Pokemon collectors or players will be able to download the Mewtwo Pokemon character onto their DS via the Nintendo W-Fi connection service, but it should be noted that the download will be available for a limited time only. The download Read more...
If you’ve enjoyed the various Mario releases that Nintendo has put out for the 3DS handheld gaming console, you will be pleased to hear that another Mario title is in the works. This is according to Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata who revealed that his company was working on many titles for the 3DS, one of which includes a “totally new 2D side-scrolling action Super Mario”. (more…) By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Nintendo announces 3DS bundles for Thanksgiving, Super Mario 3D Read more...
Shopping around for more ZTE tablets? Well we know that the ZTE Optik will be headed for Sprint, and the ZTE V66 expected to arrive on Verizon, but it seems that ZTE has more tablets up their sleeves with the ZTE Light Tab 2 which is expected to arrive over in the UK some time next month. (more…) By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Verizon’s ZTE V66 tablet gets pictured, ZTE Optik budget Android tablet arriving on Sprint, Read more...
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