EA open new DICE studio in LA
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EA have stumped up the cash to expand their beloved DICE westwards, setting up a new studio in Los Angeles - though nobody’s admitted what it’s for as yet.
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Medal of Honor: Warfighter getting Zero Dark Thirty map pack
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In conjunction with the upcoming film Zero Dark Thirty, Medal of Honor: Warfighter is going to be getting a pair of maps that depict areas scene in the film, which chronicles the ten year manhunt for Osama Bin Laden. The two maps will be £7.99, unless you get the Limited Edition of the game, at which point they’ll be lovely and free. Prominent BF3 YouTuber calls on DICE to implement Privacy options in Battlelog
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LevelCap, owner of a very successful YouTube channel made up almost exclusively of Battlefield 3 videos, has written a sizable open letter to DICE requesting a privacy option be added to the game, following a state of affairs where he can barely join a game without being hounded by stalkers who just want to grief him all day. Battlefield 3 Premium Edition shows up on Amazon Canada
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This is a Battlefield-less year, at least in so much as there isn’t a new game in the franchise coming to light. Meadows and fields look folornly at the sky, just wondering when they might get an exciting fight with mechanised infantry and helicopters swooping ahead, creating divots and craters in their immaculate slopes. And while Medal of Honor: Warfighter is coming, it’s just not the same. But all hope is not lost. MP1st has spotted that Amazon Canada has listed ‘Battlefield 3 Premium Edition’, with a mysterious release date of the 15th of September.
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THQ cancels Del Toro's Insane, starts work on four new games
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It’s the season of financial calls, those big hunks of newsmeat that we, as proud, sophisticated journalists can throw ourselves into face first, devouring every last shred before leaving them with just a few errant numbers and a conversation between the CEO and the investors about where they should go to dinner after the call is done. After EA’s mixed bag of Battlefield 3 (good) and The Old Republic (bad), THQ are up next.Turns out they’re doing a little better than you might expect. They even made a profit. But they’ve cancelled Guillermo Del Toro’s Insane, the first videogame from the director of such excellent films as Hellboy, Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth and the oft overlooked but very excellent Chronos.
Battlefield Premium has 1.3 million subscribers
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In their annual financial report, EA have revealed that Battlefield Premium, their subscription service that nets you DLC and a bunch of camo skins for your soldiers, among a few other things, has 1.3 million subscribers. That’s after just two months of being live, which makes it a mighty impressive feat. Battlefield 4 beta will definitely, absolutely be a Medal of Honor Warfighter pre-order bonus
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Battlefield 4 has been double-confirmed no takes backsies by EA in their latest Medal of Honor Warfighter video. "Pre-order Medal of Honor Warfighter Limited Edition for access to the exclusive Battlefield 4 Beta," barks an introductory splash screen before you're knee-deep in a Warfighter developer's commentary. There really is no such thing as a free lunch, or beta access that's not bolted on to a weaker EA title. That trailer is below.Battlefield 4 sneakily announced via Medal of Honor preorder incentives
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When a game is announced, there’s usually all sorts of fanfare; reveal trailers, CGI coming out of nostrils and ear canals, and all sorts of bombastic promotional imagery. If we’re lucky there’s even a hands on preview or two. Battlefield 4 is being afforded no such decadence. Instead, it’s a footnote in Medal of Honor’s marketing campaign. Pre-order Warfighter, the silliest suffix in FPS titling, and you’ll get access to the Battlefield 4 beta. Which means there is a Battlefield 4. Fancy that.Battlefield 3's Lead Designer leaves DICE
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David Goldfarb, the Lead Designer on both Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3, has left DICE, although has been careful to state that it’s purely a personal move, and nothing to do with the state of the Battlefield series, either currently or in the past. Bespoke, player tailored matches coming to Battlefield 3
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If you’ve played Battlefield 3, you’ve been there. Killed repeatedly by the same guy, some camping bastard who hides out in a particularly fortuitous ruin, the kind that has slumped and fallen into just the right shape for someone to get down on his belly, pull out a sniper rifle and start taking potshots. And then you find out where he is. And just as you were about to get that glorious knife kill, his mum says it’s time for supper and he logs off the server. Fie! Blast! Damn! Well DICE are making that sort of a thing of the past. Now you can set up your own matches, organised around dinner time.
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Level Up!: Operation Asshole
OK so killing your enemy is not usually considered trolling in an FPS; but when you go out of your way to annoy, then we get something like this. I bring you, Operation Asshole
Battlefield: Armored Kill to feature AC130 and associated explodo-death
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Teased in the Battlefield Premium trailer, DICE have let slip that Armored Kill, the second DLC for Battlefield 3 due out in September, is going to contain an AC130, the detached killer that rains down several different brands of devastatingly effective and completely unsettling hurt on anything underneath it that has the audacity to be bright white against a grey background. It’s a horrible big plane, made famous by that level in Call of Duty 4, and it’s been coveted ever since.Article submitted by: Qasim
Battlefield 3 - Potential release dates for Close Quarters and Armoured Kill
DICE’s Frostbite engine will require a 64-bit OS in the future
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Johan Andersson, DICE’s rendering architect, has revealed that some games powered by the Frostbite Engine will require a 64-bit operating system. In a Eurogamer, Andersson said, “We'll have Frostbite-powered games in 2013 that will require a 64-bit OS."War Chest: The Battlefield Billion
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Capitalism thrives on war, the cycle of creation and destruction that has propped up the Western economies for generations. It’s strange, then, to see that addiction-to-destruction paralled in games and the two big Western game publishers relying so heavily on it. We’re all aware that Activision makes money from nothing but World of Warcraft and Call of Duty. But this week, EA’s financials have shown that Battlefield 3 has taken prime position as its digital cash cow.Article submitted by: Qasim
Close Quarters will not cost $30
It seems the original price was listed by mistake. The real price will be $14.99
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Adapting the Battlefield visuals for Close Quarters combat
Nadab Göksu, senior VFX Artist at DICE describes the process of adapting the visual effects of Battlefield to best accommodate the chaos of close quarters combat.
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