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News Star Wars: Battlefront Prepping New Mode for Take Off
High flyer
The last time that EA attempted to hype up a Star Wars: Battlefront announcement, it turned out to be Team Deathmatch, so we're not getting our hopes up for this new reveal just yet. However, an image on the franchise's official Facebook page showing an X-Wing does hold a little more promise we suppose. It's accompanied by the words:
News Star Wars: Battlefront's Blast Mode Is Not as Exciting as It Sounds
Storm blooper
Star Wars: Battlefront is going to ride the coattails of force fever all the way to the bank this Christmas, but DICE is being a little too presumptuous if it expects people to get excited over Blast mode. The playlist was teased earlier in the week and has been announced as part of an EA blog post today – but it's not exactly going...
News Ubisoft's Jade Raymond Joins EA, Forms Motive Studios
Motive, means, and opportunity
Jade Raymond, the producer on the original Assassin's Creed and the former managing director of Ubisoft Toronto, has joined Electronic Arts. The industry veteran will be building a new studio under the publisher's umbrella named Motive Studios, which will be based in Montreal, Canada. It'll start by supporting Visceral...
News Mirror's Edge Catalyst's Collector's Edition Runs Away with Your Cash
Faith no more
As with every other blockbuster brand, Mirror's Edge Catalyst will be landing a collector's edition to coincide with its release early next year. This isn't one of those affordable ones that comes with a couple of bonus gubbins and a fancy box – instead you'll be forking out $199.99 for the package. Despite the price point, you...
News Battlefield Hardline's PS4 Ultimate Edition Won't Let You Access DLC
Game over, man
According to a number of reports, the rather pricey Battlefield Hardline Ultimate Edition for PlayStation 4 won't let you access the recently released Criminal Activity DLC, even though it's supposed to. The real kicker, though, is that the slightly cheaper premium version of the game doesn't appear to have this problem. "Right now...
E3 2015 Mirror's Edge Catalyst Will Be More Accessible, But Will Still Reward Skill
Faith no more
Mirror's Edge on the PlayStation 3 was great, but few of its fans would deny that it had problems. The combat was probably right at the top of the list, but it also had some really frustrating difficulty spikes. In the series' sophomore outing, Mirror's Edge Catalyst on the PlayStation 4, it will be a little more forgiving – but...
E3 2015 Explore the City of Glass in Its Entirety in Mirror's Edge Catalyst on PS4
Glass whoa
Mirror's Edge Catalyst is not only the next entry in a beloved franchise – it's a new beginning, too. Due out from 23rd February on the PlayStation 4, the sequel will ditch the linear structure of its predecessor, giving you a full sandbox to play with. The title – developed by the ever-busy DICE – will once again see you assume the...
E3 2015 Star Wars Battlefront Co-Op Mode Blasts into View
Never tell me the odds
DICE has already knocked it out of the park with its multiplayer trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront, but with Sony's E3 conference, now we've gotten a short look at what to expect from the co-op mode as well. The trailer shows two Rebel players in a survival mode fending off waves of Stormtroopers and Shocktroopers with the...
Talking Point Was EA's E3 2015 Press Conference Up Your Alley?
Electronic arts
EA's been a bit disappointing in the E3 press conference department of late, but it attempted to up its game today. While it had its usual roster of sports games on display, we were most impressed by the likes of Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Need for Speed. The highlight, however, had to be Star Wars: Battlefront, which looks stunning...
E3 2015 Mirror's Edge Catalyst Sprints to PS4 in February 2016
You've got to have Faith
Mirror's Edge Catalyst will sprint to the PlayStation 4 on 23rd February in North America and 26th February in Europe, publisher EA announced during its E3 2015 press conference this evening. The game is not a sequel to the original PlayStation 3 title, but instead acts an origin story for Faith. It's also totally open...
E3 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront PS4 Gameplay Looks Like Hoth Stuff
May the force be with you
It's the one that you've been waiting for: EA has released the first gameplay footage of Star Wars Battlefront running on a PlayStation 4. In the video we see various troops and vehicles heading into Hoth, as a giant AT-AT Walker takes the focal point of battle. The clip ends with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, lightsabers...
Live Watch EA's E3 2015 Press Conference Right Here
Star Wars: Battlefront! Mirror's Edge 2! Mass Effect 4?
Are you feeling the hype yet? With the big Microsoft media briefing out of the way, it's now EA Games' turn to take to the E3 2015 stage. Join us live from 13:00PM PT to see more of Star Wars: Battlefront, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and, potentially, Mass Effect 4...
News Mirror's Edge Catalyst Catches Its Breath in 2016 on PS4
Faith no more
Lace up your hi-tops and follow the red racing line: Mirror's Edge Catalyst has been confirmed for the PlayStation 4. The game – which is due out between 1st January and 31st March next year – is being pitched as an all-new experience. Fans of the original PlayStation 3 run-a-thon need not fear, though, as DICE promises a release...
News Mirror's Edge Catalyst Will Be Following the Red Race Line to E3 2015
Still alive
You can probably expect more Mirror's Edge news at E3 2015, as the franchise's official Twitter account has leapt into life like an athlete earlier this evening, seemingly confirming the subtitle of the series' hotly anticipated sequel: Catalyst. The news was rumoured earlier today when eagle-eyed fans uncovered a series of trademarks...
News Need for Speed PS4 Will Require an Internet Connection
Internet highway
You can forget playing the new Need for Speed game on the PlayStation 4 if you haven't got an Internet connection, as publisher EA Games has confirmed that the release will mandate access to the web. Responding to a fan's query, the company said that the benefits of this requirement "are nice", enabling "more variety and a more...
Rumour Need for Speed Rushes to PS4 from 3rd November
Race to retail
Need for Speed, the PlayStation 4 reboot of EA Games' legendary racing franchise, will tack on its body kit and take to the track from 3rd November – well, if a leaked Xbox Games Store listing is to be believed. Microsoft's been quite good at outing dates of late, and the Redmond firm pulled the page as soon as it was listed, so...
News The New Need for Speed Is Called Need for Speed
Ghost Games' reboot takes to the streets
Need for Speed is getting a complete reboot to the point where it will be ditching recycled subtitles. Indeed, the new game – due out on the PlayStation 4 later this year – will be named Need for Speed. No, there's nothing after that – it's literally just called Need for Speed. Oh, and it's not to be...
News Need for Speed's Newest PS4 Title to No Longer Be Underground After This Week
Green means go
After over a year in Ghost Games' garage, Need for Speed will be hitting the highway this week. Over on the franchise's official Facebook page, EA has teased that the latest title in the legendary racing series will be revealed on 21st May. The publisher's encouraging you to subscribe to the property's YouTube channel in order to see...
News Star Wars: Battlefront's First PS4 Gameplay Footage Will Air at E3
Binks video
Shocking news: DICE will show the first official gameplay footage from Star Wars: Battlefront at E3 2015 next month. Writing as part of a long – but padded – blog post, design director Niklas Fegraeus confirmed the snippet, stating that the studio has "great plans" for the Los Angeles-based convention. We expect the game will appear...
News Star Wars: Battlefront PS4 Stretches Its Long Legs with AT-ST
In the jungle
You'll be piloting AT-ST Walkers in DICE's forthcoming PlayStation 4 foray Star Wars: Battlefront, as a new screenshot – confirmed on Reddit by the game's community manager – has shown off one of the long legged machines. The image is apparently in-game, but we'll, er, believe that when we see it. Fortunately, we probably won't...
News Ex-EA Boss: Sony F***in' Nailed It with PS4
"They deserve the victory"
The so-called console clash is still very much ongoing, but some commentators are already starting to award the PlayStation 4 with victory. John Riccitiello, who's currently a chief at game engine Unity but previously was the big boss at Electronic Arts, is one such pundit, telling an audience at the GamesBeat Summit that...
Feature What Is Dragon Age: Inquisition's Free Black Emporium DLC Exactly?
Myths and legends
Brrrr, the spooky Black Emporium is back in Dragon Age: Inquisition as free DLC this week. The location, which generally houses a bunch of rare items for you to buy, first appeared in Dragon Age II where it roughly offered the same services that it does now. Ruled over by a rather spooky merchant named Xenon the Antiquarian, it's...
News PS4 Run-'Em-Up Mirror's Edge 2 Slips into 2016
Still alive
Mirror's Edge 2 protagonist Faith will be spending a little while longer lacing up her sneakers, as EA has announced that the hotly anticipated sequel is not due out until 2016. It's been a while since we heard anything about the DICE developed parkour-fest, but writing as part of a financial presentation, the organisation suggested that...
News Star Wars: Battlefront to Force in 12 Multiplayer Maps
Endor the line
Star Wars: Battlefront, the PlayStation 4 first-person shooter in production at DICE, will include 12 multiplayer maps at launch – including Endor, Hoth, and Sullust. Writing as part of a blog post on its official website, the Swedish developer said that there'll be even more locations in the game "when you include the missions"...
News These Mass Effect PS4 Teases Honestly Get Worse
Spaced out
We already know a good amount about Mass Effect's new-gen debut, largely because an enormous pool of information recently leaked. Prior to that, though, EA's sequel has been subject to some of the most frustrating teases of all time, with BioWare employees posting pictures of people in motion capture suits – and expecting us to get all...
News Star Wars: Battlefront Developer Diary Goes Behind the Scenes
Force of nature
Star Wars: Battlefront's very quickly looking like one of the biggest games of the year, so it was inevitable that we'd be getting updates on the title on an almost daily basis. Following on from last week's big intel drop, UK retailer GAME has now uploaded this behind-the-scenes video clip, which includes a little more information...
Rumour Mass Effect PS4 Sounds Massive, Ambitious, and Awesome
Survey spills the space beans on sci-fi sequel
And that's associate editor Robert Ramsey crying into his early afternoon coffee. The self-diagnosed Mass Effect maniac has been mentioning for months that he hopes that the next entry in BioWare's space faring series doesn't leak while he's offline; sorry buddy, but your University student-style hours...
Feature Eight Things You Need to Know About Star Wars: Battlefront on PS4
Hoth stuff
EA's certainly taken its sweet time properly unveiling Star Wars: Battlefront on the PlayStation 4. Originally announced all the way back at E3 2013, Swedish developer DICE has been quietly beavering away on the long awaited sci-fi reboot ever since. However, as part of the Star Wars Celebration fan event in Anaheim earlier today,
News Star Wars: Battlefront's First PS4 Trailer Is Explosive
Trailer starts with PlayStation branding
It's taken what feels like an eternity, but we've finally got our first look at Star Wars: Battlefront. The trailer – which is bookmarked by PlayStation branding, presumably confirming that Sony has secured a marketing partnership with the title – starts out in Endor, and shows Pods outracing...
News Star Wars: Battlefront Force Chokes Single Player Campaign
Not good for those playing (Han) Solo
We thought that it sounded too good to be true: Star Wars: Battlefront will not have a traditional single player campaign. The hotly anticipated sci-fi shooter will forgo a classic solo outing, instead opting for a series of short missions which can be played alone or with friends in online and local co-op. "I...
News Star Wars: Battlefront PS4 Screenshots Look Red Hoth
Skywalking on sunshine
It's all happening now: Game Informer has released a preview for Star Wars: Battlefront ahead of today's livestream, and we've got some high-resolution screenshots. The images show everything from the snowy plains of Hoth to the lush forests of Endor – and a few familiar armoured vehicles for good measure. Earlier today, a
News You'll Play as Darth Vader and Boba Fett in Star Wars: Battlefront on PS4
Sith is it
Not even EA Games can resist empire interference: the first details pertaining to the hotly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront have leaked out hours ahead of its full PlayStation 4 unveiling – courtesy of an Associated Press report. The write-up – which confirms the 17th November release date revealed yesterday – outlines the fo
News Here's an Early Look at Star Wars: Battlefront on PS4
Wookie here
Can you hear that? It's the sound of AT-AT Walkers approaching, as Star Wars fever hits hyperdrive. Hot on the heels of today's new movie trailer – intriguing but a teensy bit cheesy, we thought – EA Games has revealed the first assets from the forthcoming PlayStation 4 game, Star Wars: Battlefront. It's also inadvertently unveiled a...
Talking Point Is It Time to Introduce EA Access on PS4?
Star Wars: Battlefront will be playable first on Xbox One due to service
Microsoft's claiming that Xbox One owners will be able to play Star Wars: Battlefront first. While the headline that's doing the rounds may cause heart attacks among PlayStation 4 owners – the Redmond f
News Mass Effect 4's Character Models Are Out of This World
Says developer while showing nothing
The drip feed of Mass Effect 4 information continues, as developer BioWare proceeds to tell us about its in-development intergalactic role-playing game – without actually showing us anything. Senior development director Chris Wynn is the latest to take to social media to big up the forthcoming space faring...
News Star Wars: Battlefront's First PS4 Gameplay Will Swoop in This Month
Wookie here
We're going to need to prepare some fresh Stars Wars puns, because EA will allow the first footage of the hotly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront to fly (Han) Solo from 17th April. The video will be revealed from 10:30AM PT (18:30PM BST) as part of a panel at this month's Star Wars Celebration event. We hope that you like George Lucas'...
News Mass Effect 3 Is Free for European PlayStation Plus Members Right Now
Reaper what you sow
You may have already stuffed your PlayStation 3 away in a dusty cupboard, but no one can grumble at free games. Mass Effect 3 is currently flying free for PlayStation Plus subscribers on the European PlayStation Store. This looks like a mistake to us, as it's clearly
Review Battlefield Hardline (PlayStation 4)
Battlefield Vice
We all know what police officers are like, don't we? If semi-documentaries like The Wire, CSI, The Shield, and A Touch of Frost are anything to go by, there's barely a person in law enforcement on either side of the pond that isn't addicted to meth and good-hearted hookers. As easy as it is for us to identify with these fictional...
News The Force Will Block Star Wars: Battlefront from Launching on Sony's Previous Box
Wookie here
We pondered recently whether the PlayStation 3 was on its last legs, and while it's not over until Kaz Hirai says so, we're starting to see third-party publishers skip the faithful format. Hot on the heels of Dragon Quest Heroes and Dying Light, the hotly anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront is the latest game to gloss over a last-gen...
Round Up Battlefield Hardline PS4 Reviews Play Cops and Robbers with Critics
Bailed out
Battlefield Hardline is undoubtedly the big new release of the week, but with reviews held back until launch day, are the press playing good cop or bad cop with this spin-off first-person shooter? Well, the game's certainly not getting panned – though some sites have intelligently held back their scores until they can test the title in...
News Titanfall 2 Mechs Its Way to PlayStation 4
Sequel will shed Xbox exclusivity
Titanfall 2 is in development, and it will release on the PlayStation 4. At least, that's according to Respawn Entertainment gaffer Vince Zampella, who was speaking with IGN ahead of the BAFTA Game Awards, which are scheduled to take place in London later tonight. The first g
News Don't Rule Out Dead Space for the PS4 Just Yet
There's always Peng
Dead Space was undoubtedly one of the most promising new properties of the previous generation, but after a spectacular inaugural entry, the survival horror series started to go off the boil. Isaac Clarke's stomp across the Sprawl in sequel Dead Space 2 was fine, but it lacked the claustrophobic feel of its predecessor...
News Battlefield Veterans Will Be Recognised in Battlefield Hardline
Good cop
Battlefield veterans will be acknowledged in EA's forthcoming police-themed first-person shooter, Battlefield Hardline. The publisher has announced that anyone with an Origin account who has played Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3, or Battlefield 4 will unlock some goodies in the property's brand new outing. Unfortunately, these...
News Sadly, There Won't Be Any Dinosaurs in Battlefield Hardline on PS4, PS3
There will be a raptor mask, though
Somehow, rumours started circulating overnight that there'd be something more pre-historic in Battlefield Hardline than its visuals – dinosaurs. However, it would appear that the lethal game of Chinese whispers has not culminated in the Jurassic Park/Police Academy crossover that you've always dreamed of –...
Rumour Star Wars: Battlefront Will Span the Series' Entire Saga on PS4
Out of this world
The more that we think about it, the more that we reckon Star Wars: Battlefront is going to be one of the biggest games of the year. Think about it: the title's due out a month before the new movie, and Disney will likely have ratcheted up the hype to intergalactic levels by that point. Moreover, could EA have possibly picked a...
News EA Hints at Huge Positive of Bringing Titanfall 2 to PS4
Az-u-were
Colour us surprised: we were pretty confident that the original Titanfall would be at the very least announced for the PlayStation 4 by now. If you go back and listen to the Xbox console exclusivity confirmation, the words used were "for the life of the title" – a wishy-washy statement that didn't seem to preclude a 'Game of the Year'...
News Battlefield Hardline's Beta Locks Up Six Million Players
Did they all find it arresting, though?
Battlefield Hardline may feel like its operating under the radar a little bit, but the release's recent beta has been an enormous success. Visceral Games' vice president and general manager Steve Papoutsis took to the EA Blog overnight – yes, that's a real thing – to reveal that the first-person shooter's...
News EA: Games Are Still Too Hard to Learn
Don't pull that face
A top executive from EA Games has suggested that most video games are still too difficult for the average person to learn. We suspect that this statement is going to go down like a lead balloon, but we reckon that chief creative officer Richard Hilleman, who was speaking at the 2015 DICE Summit, may actually have a point. "The...
News Battlefield Hardline's PS4, PS3 Beta Has Been Set Free for the Week
Prison break
EA Games has put Battlefield Hardline on temporary parole, as it solicits some final feedback ahead of the first-person shooter's release next month. The open beta can be downloaded now on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in Europe, but eager cops and robbers in North America may find themselves under lock and key until the...
News You Lot Have Slain Over 2.5 Million Dragons in Dragon Age: Inquisition
Swooping isn't that bad
Dragons are some of the most powerful enemies that you can attempt to slaughter in Dragon Age: Inquisition, but that hasn't stopped players from destroying over 2.5 million of them. The winged beasts are rare in Thedas, with only a handful of fully grown reptiles to find throughout the game, so the fact that so many have...
