Sony says it is still working to get Payday: The Heist ready for release in Europe, a week after the game launched on the US PlayStation Store. In a post on the PlayStation Blog revealing this week's PS Store update, Sony's Andy Stewart writes: "We are close to being able to confirm the release date of Payday: The Heist and are just waiting for SOE to provide 100 per cent confirmation, which we hope will be with us later today." More >
1Sony and EA have reneged on a promise to include Battlefield 1943 with all PlayStation 3 copies of Battlefield 3. The move was announced at Sony's E3 press conference in July, where Jack Tretton said that the extra storage space on Blu-ray discs meant the PS3 release of Battlefield 3 would represent "one of the most exciting games of the year bundled free with one of the most popular PSN games." More >
2Servers have been up and down all night on the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3. The game launched in North America yesterday, but despite a beta test which publisher EA says was downloaded 9.5 million times on all platforms, it appears players have been struggling to get into multiplayer games. More >
5Nvidia has released the full keynote from its recent GeForce LAN 6 event in San Francisco. Johan Andersson, visual architect at Swedish developer DICE, explains how the graphics in the Battlefield series have evolved from the release of Battlefield 1942 in 2002 to Battlefield 3, which has launched in North America today and makes its European debut on Friday. More >
The number of people playing Team Fortress 2 has increased by a factor of five since it switched to the free-to-play model, according to Gabe Newell, co-founder of developer Valve. Newell revealed the news at a recent conference in Seattle, Geek Wire reports. Valve is also seeing a far higher percentage of players purchasing virtual items through microtransactions than is typical across the industry. More >
The studio has posted a number of jobs vacancies on its website - including engine programmer and senior gameplay programmer - adding that experience of working with Crytek's powerful engine would be a "major bonus" More >
This week's top ten sees six new entries, as Forza 4 debuts at five.
Concession made to Xbox owners without hard drives means that hi-res textures must be installed to see the game at its best. More >
3EA has revealed that Battlefield 3 pre-orders have reached two million units ahead of the game’s launch next Tuesday. More >
6A leaked version of DICE's upcoming war shooter Battlefield 3 has found its way on to illegal torrent sites, according to MCV. The 9.96GB download contains the entire single player mode from the PC version of the game. More >
2DICE has revealed 8,125,310 players played its Battlefield 3 open beta. The figure was released as part of a series of stats published on the game's blog. According to the data, those eight million people fired 47 billion bullets while killing 1.5 billion other players. More >
Radiangames makes the leap from XBLIG to iOS with a brilliant dash of attitude.
343 Industries has revealed how Kinect will be used in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary during a panel at Comic-Con in New York. Most interesting of the functions is Analyze Mode, which brings a little of Metroid Prime's spirit to proceedings by allowing you to scan objects. Items, vehicles, characters and enemies can be scanned by placing your reticule over the intended target and saying, 'scan'. More >
Valve's in-game store, Mann Co., has reached its first "Manniversary" and as a result the TF2 and Half-Life developer has announced a major update and sale. The store has earned two million dollars for community item-creators, the company says, "selling their digital creations through the Mann Co. Store". More >
1Following the furore over CCP's introduction of a shop into EVE Online, the company has gone one step further to winning back the hearts (and wallets) of its fans. Players whose EVE accounts lapsed around the time of the incident have been offered, by email, a reduced subscription offer of $4.95 for 30 days. The news follows CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson's letter of apology to the EVE community last week. More >
EA has released a brand new ten minute gameplay video of Starbreeze's upcoming Syndicate reboot. Narrated by the game's executive producer Jeff Gamon, the video runs through Executive Search, an early level. More >
2With US ratings body ESRB slapping a mature label on EA's upcoming COD-contender Battlefield 3, the company issued one of the more blunt - and hilarious - statements of response in recent times: "I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation," an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer. "For God's sake, there is a nuke in Paris! Millions of lives are at stake!!" More >
2Ofcom is investigating ITV's use of footage taken from Arma 2 in its documentary on the IRA, Exposure - Gaddafi and the IRA. ITV blamed "human error" for the inclusion of the Arma 2 footage, described during the programme as real IRA film from 1988. More >
Bethesda has released a PC patch for id's FPS Rage which fixes a number of driver-related bugs and adds new advanced graphics settings. Updates include VSync, Texture Cache and Anisotropic Filter options. The full, extensive list of changes can be viewed on the Steam website More >
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Madfinger proves that the thirdperson cover shooter has a future on iOS – but should you care?
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