End Game, the final Battlefield 3 add-on, will be released on four dates throughout March, according to a post on the official Battlefield blog.
PlayStation 3 owners with Battlefield Premium accounts will get the DLC next Tuesday, March 5. Xbox 360 and PC Battlefield Premium members will get End Game the following Tuesday, March 12. Those without Premium memberships on PlayStation 3 can download it on March 19, while Xbox 360 and Windows PC owners can download it on March 26.
You can check out a video above to see lead designer Niklas Fegraeus discuss the four new maps, which will arrive with End Game alongside the new dirt bike vehicle and Air Superiority mode.
EA has released a quartet of new trailers for Insomniac's upcoming squad-based cooperative shooter Fuse. Each centers on an individual member of the Overstrike 9 special forces team, introducing audiences to their backstory and unique abilities. Above, we get a look at team leader Dalton Brooks, a cynical and dryly-snarking former mercenary whose special ability lets a player project a fixed energy field, shielding teammates from enemy fire.
The three videos below serve as an introduction to the rest of the team. Naya Deveraux is Overstrike 9's stealthy assassin, whose personal cloaking device enables her to sneak around a battlefield undetected, and whose gun seems to shoot miniature black holes. Naya's family issues rear their heads as her father — who trained her in her youth to...
Reef Entertainment's Rambo: The Video Game will feature the original voice tracks of characters John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) and Col. Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) from the movie series.
A Reef Entertainment spokesperson announced today that the studio's goal is to "produce the finest Rambo video game ever made. To do that, we are including dialogue, special effects and music from the movies."
According to the spokesperson, Studio Canal — the owners of the Rambo films — trawled through their extensive archives to track down audio files and original voice recording tapes for the films First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rambo 3. The game will use dialogue, screams and exclamations from the films.
Rambo: The Video Game is due to release later this year on Xbox 360,...
CD Projekt Red released high resolution screenshots and concept art for its upcoming open-world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt today.
The game was revealed earlier this month and is scheduled for a release on "all high-end platforms" in 2014. Last week, CD Projekt Red announced that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is headed for Sony's next-gen console, PlayStation 4. You can check out an early glimpse of the world and the characters in the gallery above.
Griffin succumbed to the Andromeda Strain this week, leaving Frushtick, Hoops and myself to brave The Besties without him. I confess, it was tough. Fortunately, we had two very different, very unusual games to discuss in the forms of Proteus and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Proteus is what you might call an art game. Drawn in colorful and simple polygons, the game lacks traditional goals and rules. When Proteus was released a few weeks ago, a band of perturbed critics claimed Proteus wasn't a game at all.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on the other hand is the stereotypical action video game. The neo-future world is chock-full of robots and foot soldiers that can be sliced like a watermelon in Fruit Ninja. The game has a clear goal and that's KILL, KILL, KILL!
To kill or chase a...
Origin's Everything Dead Space sale is underway, discounting PC and console games — including the recently released Dead Space 3 — and DLC between 30 and 50 percent until March 7.
The sale includes the original Dead Space for $10 (regularly $19.99) as a Windows PC download, Dead Space 2 for $10 (regularly $19.99) for PC download, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and Dead Space 3 for $41.99 (regularly $59.99) as a PC download or physical copy and on consoles. PC DLC packs for the latest installment of Visceral Games' Necromorph-filled franchise are also on sale for $3.49 (regularly $4.99) each.
You can check out the sale at Electronic Arts' Origin website. For more on Dead Space 3, you can read Polygon's review, watch a recent episode of Today I Played and listen to episode 45 of The...
Two new Injustice: Gods Among Us gameplay videos were released today showing a battle between Superman vs. Sinestro and Green Arrow vs. Hawkgirl.
Both Sinestro and Hawkgirl were confirmed for the Injustice line-up earlier this week.The videos show the over-the-top finishing moves of the characters, including an out-of-this-world attack from Sinestro that involves him pulling Superman through a portal to outer space and slamming two meteors to crush his opponent.
In the battle between Green Arrow and Hawkgirl, the characters throw each other with such intensity that they crash through walls into other arenas and, at 1:21, Hawkgirl is sent flying through the sky and is beaten up by giant non-playable characters – Giganta and Atom Smasher — who are brawling in the background.
I...
One of the many enemy groups in Defiance is the Ninety-Niners, the focus of a new video released today by publisher Trion Worlds.
The Ninety-Niners are "crazed cyborgs," miners who gave up their humanity to augment their bodies in ways that would help them scour the Earth for minerals and other precious commodities. When they were human, they ran the Muir Union Mining Company. Their cybernetic enhancements give them superhuman strength, and they're fiercely territorial beings — so be careful when you're traipsing through Ninety-Niner country.
Defiance, a first-person shooter MMO that is tied into a Syfy television series of the same name, launches April 2 on Windows PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, two weeks before the series premiere. For more details, check out our preview from...
Pre-orders for Dead Island: Riptide, Deep Silver's upcoming open-world zombie survival game, will contain downloadable content with in-game bonuses, discounts, skins and more, according to to a press release from the developer.
The first DLC, The Survivor Pack, will include a weapon called the BBQ Blade, which players can upgrade at the workbench to superheat the balde using a fuel tank. It will also include an XP stat booster and a shop that provides discounts on weapons and items.The Survivor Pack will be available for pre-orders in multiple regions worldwide.
The Fashion Victim pre-order DLC, which is available through GAME stores in the U.K., includes skins for each of the game's five playable characters.
Both DLC packs will be available for purchase after Dead Island: Riptide'...
4A Games’ post-apocalyptic, survival horror shooter, Metro: Last Light, will be available from May 14 for American regions and May 17 for European markets on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC, Deep Silver announced today.
"Since it has been made public that we took over the Metro franchise, the fans keep asking for a release date," Menno van der Bil, international commercial director, Deep Silver said in a press release. "Now we can finally announce when they will be able to get their hands on the game!
"We would like to thank all of the Metro fans for their patience. And we can assure them that we have a lot more coming their way with the franchise."
The title was pulled from pre-purchase on GameStop PC Downloads in January because of publisher THQ's instability. The troubled...
Developer Lab Zero Games' fundraising drive to add a new character to 2D fighting game Skullgirls is already successful. But the young studio's efforts to raise $150,000 to add one new female fighter to its game incensed some gamers, leading to a charged conversation about the cost of making games.
In just a few days, Skullgirls' Indiegogo campaign has pulled in more than $250,000 in donations. But as a recent report on Giant Bomb highlights, the initial $150,000 target was met with some disdain.
Citing comments in a Joystiq article — "I've overseen whole projects that cost less than that;" "For one character? Even Capcom isn't that greedy" — Giant Bomb magnifies the disparity between what a game or game asset can really cost versus video game fans' perspective.
Similar but more...
Only two options remain, according to a trailer released today for Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel: Alpha and Bravo, the game's protagonists.
You can watch the trailer above to see how the duo responds to being the last two T.W.O. operatives alive in the middle of a Mexican drug war. Visceral Games' co-op shooter is locked and loaded for a March 26 release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Deadfall Adventures, the next game from former Polish game studio The Farm 51, promises to marry "the ethos of the Saturday morning matinee with the Summer blockbuster," combining first-person shooting with exploration and puzzle-solving.
The Unreal Engine 3 game will send players to Aztec tombs, deep into the Arctic and into ancient Egyptian pyramids in search of artifacts and adventure. As protagonist James Lee Quatermain, players will face more than just deadly traps and puzzles, they'll also contend with supernatural enemies and Nazi soldiers with a taste for the occult. The Farm 51 doesn't shy away from Indiana Jones comparisons in its announcement of the Xbox 360 and PC game, though there's no mention of first-person whipping in Deadfall Adventures.
"We're putting everything...
A new Xbox 360 package, the $299 Spring Value Bundle, packages a 250 GB console along with Darksiders 2 and Batman: Arkham City, Microsoft announced today.
The bundle is shipping today and will be available "for a limited time, while supplies last, at select major U.S. retail stores this spring," said Microsoft's Major Nelson.
Also featured in the package are a wireless Xbox 360 controller, a wired headset and a free one-month subscription to Xbox Live Gold. Darksiders 2 is included on disc, while Arkham City comes in the form of a download token.
Check out an image of the box above.
Peripheral and accessory manufacturer PDP will be making accessories for Disney Infinity, Avalanche Software's upcoming sandbox game with physical toys, PDP confirmed to Polygon today.
"We are excited to say that we will be partnering with Disney for PDP manufactured accessories in support of the Disney Infinity launch this summer," said PDP community manager Candace Hinton. PDP is keeping details of the partnership and products under wraps for now; Hinton told us the company "will reveal more details of this exciting partnership in the next few months."
PDP is planning to produce cases and stands for Disney Infinity toys and related items, reports MCV.
Capsules for the Power Discs, character-themed cases for the Infinity base and an album that holds 20 Power Discs will be available...
A trailer for Battlefield 3's upcoming End Game expansion takes viewers on a flyby tour of the DLC's four new maps.
You can ride along with the camera in the trailer above as it swoops past the mountainous terrain in Operation Riverside, the sparse desert in the Nebandan Flats, the tracks in Kaisar Railroad and the snowy tundra in Sabalan Pipeline. You'll also catch a glimpse of the new dirtbikes coming with End Game, which will be available this March.
Anyone can play Bit.Trip Runner 2.
Gaijin's latest Commander Video-driven installment to the Bit.Trip series is less complicated than its full name — Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien — would have you believe. As Commander Video, the player is propelled to the right side of the screen. You jump over, slide under, kick through and spin around obstacles on the way to a finish line with the tap of a button or flick of a joystick.
Hit an obstacle and an invisible string yanks the Commander back to the beginning or the most recent checkpoint. If you desire a little extra challenge, there are items to collect and alternate routes to explore.
It's nearly as accessible and very similar in play to its predecessor. But the original Bit.Trip Runner, with its chiptune...
Capcom will be making announcements for two new games during their World of Capcom panel on the Friday of PAX East in Boston.
The panel, which kicks off at noon on the first day of the show, will be moderated by Francis Mao and feature a panel of not-yet-named Capcom producers and product managers. The panel is set to discuss the latest details on "all of the upcoming Capcom games" including the recently dated Remember Me, Lost Planet 3, Resident Evil: Revelations, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and those two new games, according to the company.
Capcom will also have a number of games on the show floor including Darkstalkers Resurrection, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Remember Me and Lost Planet 3.
PAX East runs from March 22 through March 24 and Polygon will be on hand covering all of...
And so are a lot of other VFX studios. And a lot of the people who work at those studios, some of which no longer exist, were picketing and protesting right outside the theater where the awards were being handed out.
At a time when hardly a single film can be made in Hollywood without some manner of VFX retouching or enhancement, the ability of VFX studios to stay in business — and that of its artists to earn a living wage — is practically non-existent. This, in spite of the fact that heavily visually enhanced films are among the highest-grossing in Hollywood, and in spite of those films' massive multi-million dollar budgets.
The ability of VFX studios to stay in business is practically non-existent
What's worse is that most within the industry don't even seem to be aware of this...
New box art for Ubisoft's next installment in the Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, was released by the publisher this morning.
The image shows a first look at a new assassin, who appears to carry at least three guns as well as a cutlass, against the backdrop of a pirate ship. This follows the apparent leak of a poster for the new title earlier in the week which, while at the time not officially confirmed by Ubisoft, also features an iconic assassin battling a handful of pirates aboard a ship.
According to a packshot made available by Ubisoft, the game's PlayStation 3 edition will in addition include 60 minutes of exclusive gameplay. The game will release to PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U.
We attended events for the game in New York, London and San Francisco and...
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