Online games in general have a large amount of unlockable and optional content in order to keep the players interested in it beyond the usual gameplay which can get repetitive fairly quickly. Battlefield 3 isn’t going to be an exception, with 100 hours of gameplay needed to unlock everything.
A trailer released by Activision has shown a change to the killstreak system for those playing in Support Mode. If you die, it wont be reset. What this means exactly isn’t too clear but I’m interpreting that as you get consecutive kills even if you die. They have also changed their name to Strike Packages.
The problem with open world games is that you have to define a massive range of objects, including debrie, walls, dungeons, stairs, it’s not like a level in an FPS where you’re mostly railroaded into everything within a contained environment. All open world games are notorious for their bugs, especially collision detection bugs, but Bethesda have gone out of their way to iron those out for Skyrim.
They claim it’s for community reasons, they claim it’s to allow savefiles, and they claim it’s nothing to do with piracy but I find most of these statements questionable at best. Blizzard is surprised at the backlash despite a strong foot in the online gaming industry.
DICE has revealed details on Battlefield 3′s singleplayer mode along with the length in hours. Lead Designer Goldfarb said “I would say it’s a pretty decent length, it’s not Skyrim but it’s not three hours or anything like that.”, when comparing it to Modern Warfare 2 which is estimated at six hours, he said “I’d say it was probably slightly more than that. Based on our play-times it’s probably more than that, but it’s not twice as long. But, again, we’ll see. When you play it on hard difficulty, it’ll take a lot more time.
The Razer Blade is a gaming laptop created in collaboration with Razer, Intel, and NVIDIA that is lightweight, portable, and a true powerhouse with an excellent interface that puts it on par with modern desktops. Specs and video after the jump.
The Killcam feature used in several first-person shooters will be in Battlefield 3, a feature that is quite controversial among gamers for quite a few reasons, usually those who are hindered by it.
Microsoft has made a recent announcement about a deal they have made with Bethesda regarding Skyrim’s DLC. There will be DLC released before anywhere else a full 30 days ahead.
As action RTS games are gaining steam in the industry of online gaming, the pioneering publisher of the genre caught so much attention last year after it announced its plans on releasing a mod for StarCraft II that will takes its roots from the popular Warcraft II Gaming Mod – Defense of the Ancients. Blizzard DOTA, expected to be released in the last quarter of 2011 just hit a big dead-end and will seem to be overhauled from the ground up, which is sure to be nothing as the same with what Blizzard presented during the last BlizzCon.
The Japanese company Key which is known for producing some excellent visual novels, some of which you have likely seen the anime adaptions of like Clannad, released Rewrite two months ago, but according to Push!!, it has only sold just shy of 24,500 copies.
In spite(or maybe because) of multiple petitions to have the Ugly Tree cut down, to reduce the amount of Ugly Sticks that are used for regular beatings in the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda has stated you can marry “Anyone” in their upcoming game Skyrim. Yes, this includes same-sex marriage.
A sale is brewing in the world of Bloodline Champions, as Funcom has announced a week long discount of 30%. This includes everything related to Bloodline Champions: items, titles, bloodlines and emotes. On top of that, the Titan and Champion editions of the game can be purchased with the same dscount.
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