Yo yo PC crew, you know how you wanted a sick ride in that BF3 but EA were all ‘Oh hells no, you get factory standard only’? Well fo’ Battlefield 4 they got their shizz sorted and you fo’sho gonna be able to pimp your ride. There’s screens on NeoGaf to show this news is well legit. Them tanks look well fit.
Speaking to investors earlier today, President of EA Labels Frank Gibeau revealed that the next Mirror’s Edge game would be dropping the original’s linear level structure and opting for an open world instead.
He also hinted that the publisher had “five or six new IPs that are fully owned and we haven't announced yet." The coy bastard.
Along with the news that all of Bioware’s games will be built in DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine, the developer’s general manager Aaryn Flynn says that the work they’re doing on Dragon Age 3’s RPG systems will carry over into the next Mass Effect game and the unannounced game they’re also working on currently.
Meaning we could be in line to see a truly complex space RPG.
Now that’s a novel headline to write these days. After a generation of publishers explaining why they won’t have dedicated servers, we finally get to report that one of the best-looking upcoming shooters - Respawn’s Titanfall - WILL have support for dedicated servers.
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It was an errant backspace icon in Microsoft’s Xbox conference that first alerted us to the fact that we were watching Battlefield 4 at 60fps on a PC. It’s since transpired that throughout their breathless promotion of the new consoles, DICE have been running their new game on a very familiar platform.
DICE are getting awful generous this E3 season; first they give the gift of hope, announcing that they’re working on Mirror’s Edge 2 and Star Wars Battlefront 3, and now they give the gift of game by handing out free copies of Battlefield 3’s first DLC expansion, Close Quarters, to all and sundry.
Commanders in Battlefield 4 will be taking control of many different functions that were previously spread out across the different classes in Battlefield 3, or out of the player’s control entirely. What’s shown in the new trailer seems to provide a sense of cohesion to the Battlefield series that’s been lacking, it could well be the best thing that's on the horizon of the upcoming sequel.
Update: DICE have since confirmed both spectator mode and VOIP will feature; two similarly key features.
Where Call of Duty: Ghosts’ ocean looks familiar to the point of friendliness, Battlefield 4’s was denoted in last night’s singleplayer demo to be ‘ANGRY’. As it pulled apart a military carrier in exquisite detail, the sea made its feelings clear: it was peeved by the good guys, pissed at the bad guys, and most of all seemed to despise light aircraft.
Electronic Arts’ mammoth E3 press conference featured over a dozen games, from the usual cavalcade of sports licenses to the inevitable Need for Speed and Battlefield. But in all that time, with all those games, the phrase “PC" never passed anyone’s lips but once, even while Battlefield 4 was running on one. Vince Zampella is the one who referred to The Platform That Shall Not Be Named during his presentation for Titanfall.
“Crestfallen" doesn’t begin to describe the reaction in the PCGN chat when we learned that Ubisoft’s terrific-looking Division would be console-exclusive. In fact, time and again today, it’s felt like publishers are ignoring the PC and trying to keep their best offerings away from it. But that’s probably not true. Here’s the thing to remember about this year’s E3: the PC is inevitable, but a successful console generation is not.
While it didn’t find its way into EA’s press conference, Command & Conquer is making a showing at this year’s E3, albeit remotely via trailer.
We can confidently say that the game will feature explosions, that much the trailer confirms. It also heavily suggests there will be tanks, nukes, missiles, sassy generals, and explosions (more of them).
DICE’s got round to showing Battlefield 4’s multiplayer in action (it’s about time) and, more importantly, the returning commander mode.
The commander mode allows one player on each team to provide assets and intelligence to troops on the ground. The commander can do all this while working with a tablet. Very nifty.
After much begging from fans, Mirror's Edge 2 has finally been confirmed by EA in their final announcement of the day. Faith is back in the clinical clean dystopia from the first game, and it looks just as much as a rush as it ever was.
While EA and Bioware weren’t prepared to show off Dragon Age 3: Inquisition in action, they teased a couple of details about the third game in the series. The game will take place in an open world and it will see you lead an inquisition to restore order across a land in turmoil.
Star Wars Battlefront is back. EA have announced today at E3 that the multiplayer shooter is returning for the next-generation, powered by Frostbite 3.
Following the announcement of Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Popcap’s John Vechey shouted that Peggle 2 is a thing and will be out this year. He then did a dance and walked off stage.
No pictures, no video, just the sounds of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
What’s the natural evolution of Plants vs Zombies, the tower defense game that had you defend your garden from waves of nasty zombies? A third-person four-player co-op shooter, apparently.
That said, as unlikely a fit for the series as Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare seems, it’s did look both wonderfully colourful and wonderfully silly.
One of the major components of Microsoft’s press conference at this year’s E3 has been the single player footage of Battlefield 4, it looked gorgeous, had lots of explosions, and showed what the console was capable of. Except, it was running on a PC.
There was a subtle little backspace icon up in the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Crumbs, it looks like Mirror’s Edge 2 might actually be happening.
Following recent leaks suggesting online retailers would soon be taking preorders for a sequel to Dice’s excellent free-running action game, we’ve learned that EA have updated their ownership of a mirrorsedge2.com domain that was registered back in 2007.
Popcap have taken their sweet time about it but we’re within spitting distance of the release of Plants vs Zombies 2. Well, sort of. The first trailer for the game reveals a release date for mobile devices, keeping schtum on a PC release.
The trailer also shows off that the game’s now of a more temporal nature, what with you saving the world in the first game.
Bioware have launched a page dedicated to the upcoming 2.2 update, it details the changes and new content that will be coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic.
The two jewels in the crown are Nightmare Mode operations - Terror from Beyond and Legions of Scum and Villainy - buffed out versions of previous missions, now with tougher bosses and added enemy hordes.
