Steve Ellis, the co-founder of Free Radical Software and one of the developers behind classic FPS’s like Goldeneye and Timesplitters, gave a rather candid interview with UK gaming mag Edge regarding the state of the FPS genre, and why he’s stepping away from the genre that he helped to popularize.
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Activision and Infinity Ward address issue of Modded Lobbies
As I wrote previously, Modern Warfare 3 had a lapse in its clean record of being largely free from hackers and cheaters, not to mention Infinity Ward’s very strict banning policy, which will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you get caught. On the ball as they claim to be, they’ve cracked down and taken action.
Modern Warfare 3 Exploited by Hackers
February NPD: Another Slow Month in Sales
2012 is off to a slow start for the games industry, as recently released NPD sales data seems to show: while EA’s Kingdoms of Amalur and the launch of Sony’s Playstation Vita helped make February a more profitable month than January, overall sales of both software and hardware nationwide were well below last year’s numbers.
Modern Warfare 3 – PS3 DLC Release Date
COD Modern Warfare 3 – Xbox 360 Title Update 8 Details
Just in case you think boosters get away with it, user banned for 5000 days after spending over $1000
Now this is quite the fail, Modern Warfare 3 player HotShot__01 was landed with a hefty 14-year ban for boosting. If you don’t know, boosting is deliberate exploitation of game mechanics to level up at a much faster rate than you are normally expected to. The most common form is people willingly letting you kill them. This is considered an exploit and a bannable offense.
More Xbox Live users are Playing Skyrim than Battlefield 3
It is already known that Skyrim sold a whopping 3.5 Million copies in its first two days, which may not seem like much for a AAA title, but for an RPG of this sort that is mighty impressive. So, it may be no wonder that after so many people were playing it while logged in to the Xbox Live service last week. Below is the full list of the top 20 games played by Xbox Live users. Skyrim ranks third and Battlefield 3 follows right behind in fourth.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Coming Soon to iOS
Call of Duty is #1… In Japan.
“Western games don’t sell in Japan.” “Japanese people hate first person shooters.” These are sentiments you hear a lot from people within the gaming industry and press, and for the last few years, all the data suggested these statements were true. It’s no secret that Western developed games aren’t very popular in Japan; the Xbox 360 has only barely sold a million systems in the country, which remains firmly devoted to Sony and Nintendo, and games like Halo, Fallout, and GTA, which manage to break records everywhere else in the world, only have a niche following in the Far East. While Western games have never caught on in Japan, first person shooters in particular have traditionally been despised by Japanese gamers, but that appears to be changing.
Modern Warfare 3 is getting bug updates.
Call of Duty Elite in trouble; may not be offered to PC
Call of Duty Elite, Activision’s premium pay-to-use service that offers extensive options to gamers willing to throw even more dollars at the game, is in its death throes as developers struggle to provide the service to PCs. Already collapsing under the weight of its own base of subscribers for consoles, the PC offering is being put on the shelf while Activision struggles to fix what is already live.
