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News Battlefield 1943 Weapons To Return In Bad Company 2
Who loves Battlefield 1943? We do
The weapons feel great don't they? Presumably you'll want to use those weapons in the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2. No problemo, a Tweet from the official Battlefield Twitter suggests that the sniper, rifle and machine gun will all make a return in Bad Company 2. It's possible the weapons may be a bonus for...
News Boom Blox Could Come To The Playstation 3 In The Future
Speaking with Videogamer
com</a> during this week's Shine Week in London, Harvey Elliot, the head of EA's Bright Light studio has revealed that Boom Blox may come to other platforms."I wouldn't rule anything out, never say never," said Elliott when asked about the possibility of Boom Blox moving to other platforms. "Why I think...
News Surprise: Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Tops The UK Video Game Charts
Who would have thought? The week the movie goes on to make a gajillion copies, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince the video game leap frogs four other games in the UK charts to take the top spot
Fellow movie tie in Transformers: The Revenge Of The Fallen props up second place with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 sitting in third. If you've just seen the...
News Fifa 10 Lands This October 2nd In The UK
We're mighty excited about Fifa 10
Despite being just another football game, the last release was an accomplished piece of interactive sporting and these type of games can only get better. We hope they tidy up the menu system personally. Still an October 2nd release has been announced. That's the same day as the PSP Go. Expensive October this year...
News Mirror's Edge DLC Now Free On The European PSN
Isn't life funny? You may have noticed we've been away this past week
And as such we've been out of contact with our Playstation. One thing we were thinking about buying when we got back though was the Mirror's Edge DLC which released a few months ago. Well Europeans, if like us you've been dreaming of more Mirror's Edge while on holiday, perhaps...
News The Battlefield 1943 "Coral Sea" Challenge Is Up & Running, Playstation 3 Behind
Come on Playstation 3 people
Even with the worst Battlefield 1943 server problems happening on the XBOX side (although PSN isn't exactly flaw-free — we can testify) they still lead the scoreboards by about 2:1. The scoreboards are tracking all the kills on the Playstation 3 and XBOX 360 versions so that when each side hits 43 million a new...
News The Beatles: Rock Band Unaffected By The Death Of Michael Jackson
The death of Michael Jackson has come as a shock to us all
But now the dust is settling we can start to look towards a future without the King Of Pop and how his death will affect the release of the upcoming Playstation title, The Beatles: Rock Band. See, one of Michael Jackson's more profitable assets is the ownership of over 200 songs from The...
News Battlefield 1943 Servers Being Added & Maintained 24/7
Battlefield 1943 is the perfect example of being a victim of its own success
The XBOX Live launch yesterday was compounded with bricked servers and connection problems. Rumours are that since its XBOX launch yesterday morning the game has sold a whopping 70,000 copies, which is pretty impressive for a download release. We've just bought our PSN copy...
News Is Mass Effect 2 Going To Come To The Playstation 3?
In a short but sweet interview with Joystiq, Bioware's Matt Atwood has hinted that a Playstation 3 version of Mass Effect 2 may be possible in the future
When pressed by Joystiq as to who owns the Mass Effect IP he responded, "EA owns the rights to Mass Effect". Further pressing confirmed that there is currently no exclusivity contract...
News Bioware Are "Really Pumped" About Working On The Playstation 3
Popular developers Bioware, the team behind the 360's Mass Effect, have claimed they are "really pumped" to be working on the PS3 with the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins
The vice president of Bioware, Greg Zeschuk, has said that the team have found developing on the PS3 rather "exciting".It's been interesting, he said. It's actually...
News Fight Night Round 4 DLC On The Horizon, Button Controls Slated For September
EA will patch Fight Night Round 4's controls for free sometime in September
EA also announced new content for the game which will be available for free next month; there'll be a new gym, new gameplay sliders and a bunch of new equipment. The new gameplay sliders will allow players to tweak the Counter Punch Window, Boxer Stamina and Punch Accuracy...
News Fight Night Round 4 Tops The UK Charts For A Second Week Running
EA's excellent Fight Night Round 4 has held the UK charts top spot for the second week running
The boxing game sits just above EA Sport's other release, Tiger Woods' PGA Tour 10. Completing a hat-trick for EA, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince landed in 10th.
News Seems Like Skate 3 Is Currently In The Works
While not an outright confirmation, a Tweet from Epicly Trife (a skating website) seems to be hinting at the existence of a Skate 3: "I just got told 'tonight we gotta celebrate,' one of the bro's got offered to be in SKATE 3
" Seeing as Skate has become one of EA's bigger franchise we're not surprised to hear a new iteration is in at least the...
News Dante's Inferno Looks Extremely God Of War In This Gameplay Trailer
Visceral Games have released via GameTrailers this exclusive gameplay trailer of their upcoming horror-action romp Dante's Inferno
We know it's just a trailer - and there was no age gate on it for that matter - but we expected something much more twisted from the game. At the moment it just seems like a God Of War clone. Hopefully the fiction...
News Battlefield 1943 Is Out Next Week, July 9th
The hotly anticipated Battlefield 1943 will see a Playstation Network release next week, July 9th, as confirmed by the official Battlefield Twitter account
Perhaps you could spend the next week in solitary confinement, ensuring you'll be perfectly focused on the wars you'll be fighting soon.
We're still not used to the subsequent years after a video game franchise not being "oh-something"
Meh, whatever. Here's the first trailer for FIFA 10. Apparently it's all using in-game graphics — we presume the slow-down and depth of field effects won't be present in the final product. We loved FIFA 09 though, we just hope they can fix the...
News Floating Rumours Hint At Blacklisting For Any Fighters Who Appear In EA's MMA
A rumour spawning from the mixedmartialarts
com</a> forums suggests that any fighters looking to join EA's upcoming MMA release will be blacklisted by the UFC. So essentially, any fighter that signs up to MMA will never be endorsed by the UFC. Considering the sales of UFC 2009 Undisputed it kind of makes sense. But it all just seems a bit...
News Terrible Bands That Weird People Like Heading To Rock Band Unplugged
Everybody cheer with me now - Avenged Sevenfold are coming to the PSP's awesome Rock Band Unplugged
No cheers? Oh, that's because nobody likes Avenged Sevenfold. Actually, that's not strictly true. People do like Avenged Sevenfold. They're just a bit weird. A bit like the people who like Dream Theater, Motley Crue and Stone Temple Pilots. Meh, it's...
News Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince Video Game Trailer Showcases Darker Plot
Those of you who have read the Harry Potter books will know that the franchise takes a turn for the dark-side in the penultimate novel, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, as Master Potter and Dumbledore make preparations to thwart the fast approaching threat of Voldemort
It's a trait which has clearly been taken seriously by EA's video game...
News Burnout Paradise Experts Earn A Little Bonus Courtesy Of Criterion
Pictured is the diamond encrusted P12, a reward for all those Paradise City residents who've spent their time completing all 500 online freeburn challenges, including everything from the original game, the new timed and freeburn challenges in the Cagney update, Bikes Pack and Big Surf Island
So only about 200 hours gameplay then. Alas, do it all and...
News The Beatles Are Heavily Involved With The Beatles: Rock Band
Despite a disjointed appearance at Microsoft's press briefing, apparently The Beatles are having some hands-on input with the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band video game
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and windows Yoko-Ono and Olivia Harrison are said to be "the shareholders" of the development team and have helped construct the characters,...
News EA's Peter Moore Talks About Sports Franchises & Playstation Motion Controller
In an interview with Gamasutra, Peter Moore claims Sony's Playstation Motion Controller will aid EA's "Sports" franchises "very positively"
Moore says that EA are already making plans to bring its "licensed products" and "fitness products" to the new interface. He reckons the new controller is a "huge opportunity" and...
News Left 4 Dead 2 Release Listing Tagged With The Words "Playstation 3"
Before you go crazy over this, we're pretty sure this is going to turn out as being a database error and nothing to really get too excited about
Still, it's exciting enough to warrant mention. Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 - an XBOX 360/PC "exclusive" - has been tagged for release on the Playstation 3 via an EA webpage. The EA game has since had...
News CryEngine 3 On Playstation 3 Is Equal To CryEngine 2 On "Medium" Settings
Were you ever curious how CryTek's new CryEngine 3 (running on Playstation 3) stacks up against the previous PC version, CryEngine 2? No, us neither, but those PC elitists - they just gotta remind us that their £1,500,000,000
01 rig is better than our lovely little Playstations. If you watch the embedded video you'll be able to read all the...
News Visceral "Not Ready" To Reveal Dead Space 2 Just Yet
Visceral Games - formerly known as EA Redwood Shores - have confirmed they are "not ready" to talk about Dead Space 2 at the moment, and are instead focusing their energy on the Wii's Dead Space Extraction and upcoming PS3 action-adventure title Dante's Inferno
These two games are the games were really focusing on. One of the reasons we changed...
News Download Festival Fans Smash Air Guitar World Record
Good grief, this is why we're not excited over Brutal Legend
We hate metal, we hate Jack Black and we don't have a strange affinity Tim Schafer like everyone else seems to. Thus there's not much going for Brutal Legend in our opinion. Alas, different strokes for different folks and all, so we'll grit our teeth and write this piece about the pompous...
News Unlock Toy Versions Of The Ledgendary Cars By Playing Big Surf Island
Oh Criterion
How we love thee. Not content with making the best piece of DLC period, they've also packed it with value. Namely toy versions of the Legendary Cars pack we reviewed earlier in the year. To earn the toy cars you're going to need to hit all 15 Mega Jumps, 45 Billboards, 75 Smashes, and complete all 24 Road Rules. We know you're loading...
News Criterion Don't Reckon Anyone Has "Maxed Out" A Console
Remember when a VP over at EA thought the XBOX 360 was "maxed out"? And remember how developers always spout the "we're using 100% of the Playstation 3's power" line to make their games sound better? Yeah well, Criterion say it's "proof that you're not the best," and that "it means you're out of ideas
""You always find new ways to do...
News "Small Team" Working On Mirror's Edge 2
Mirror's Edge had one of the best graphical styles and concepts in years
Sadly, somewhere along the way the execution was a little awry. What should have been a huge release essentially got lost in the shuffle. Thankfully, there is a sequel on the way. While somewhat disappointing for EA, VP of EA Europe Patrick Soderlund has confirmed a sequel is...
News Burnout Paradise's Big Surf Island To Cost ?9.99/$12.99
A few pages regarding Burnout Paradise's Big Surf Island DLC went online early recently, meaning tipsters revealed the price of the package before was supposedly intended
At just $12.99 (12.99 in Europe, £9.99 UK) it seems like Criterion have learned from their mistakes on earlier DLC and really want to make this thing available to everyone...
News EA's Patrick Soderlund Reckons The XBOX 360 Is Maxed Out, PS3 Is Not
Speaking with OXM magazine, EA Europe's VP Patrick Soderlund has spoken about how he feels EA have maxed out with the XBOX 360, with juice still to pull from the PS3
However, he does go on to say that the XBOX 360 is his "favourite" console - objectivity we expect from a major third-party VP (sarcasm). Either way, we don't believe him...
News Activision Suing Double Fine Over Brutal Legend
Yahoo are reporting that Brutal Legend developer Double Fine have received a lawsuit from Activision to "stop the release" of the game
Activision claim they have invested "roughly $15 million" into the game's development and that "it still has a valid contract to release the game". Double Fine transferred to Electronic Arts late...
News EA's John Riccitello: "Sony's Motion Tech Is More Instantly Accessible"
EA's CEO John Riccitello reckons Sony's Playstation Motion Controller will be more instantly accessible than Microsoft's "Natal" leap-of-faith: It's a great bridge technology, that provides users with an brand new experience but one that doesnt require quite the leap of faith that Natal does
Its certainly very compelling for a number of...
Some protesters, erm, protesting Dante's Inferno
PR stunt or genuinely upset religious types?
E3 2009 Here's Your First Trailer For Crysis 2...
.. If you can call this a Crysis 2 trailer at all. It just looked like shards of floating glass on a black background to us. But hey, different strokes for different folks - no doubt the Crysis fanboys are already screaming "game of the year".
E3 2009 First The Beatles: Rock Band Gameplay Trailer
Following up the introduction trailer, the first The Beatles: Rock Band trailer shows off the game's harmony system, graphic style and range of career spanning tunes
Awww man. This is actually the first time we've been sold by a rhythm game. This is going to be big.
E3 2009 The Beatles: Rock Band Intro Trailer
One of the most impressive things at Microsoft's E3 conference last night was the focus on The Beatles: Rock Band
In fact, they kicked the whole thing off with the intro (above) which really shows off the lengths Harmonix have gone to in nailing the look and feel of The Beatles throughout the years. By the time the trailer gets to the Sgt. Pepper...
E3 2009 The Beatles: Rock Band Drums Revealed
For your viewing pleasure, The Beatles: Rock Band's packaged Ludwig drum kit which kinda doesn't look anything like the real kit but is designed around being used in a video game so we'll let them off
E3 2009 Ozzy Osbourne Will Cameo In Brutal Legend As Himself
What do you need to make your heavy metal video game even better? A better initial idea? Well, yes, that - or the Prince Of Darkness himself Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne will be playing an unnamed character in Brutal Legend who looks a lot like Ozzy Osbourne. Funny that. We hope he can manage to read his script ok.
E3 2009 EA Announce A New Sports Game, EA Sports MMA
At their conference last night, EA's Peter Moore announced an entirely new game for the "consoles" - EA Sports MMA
The game will feature "multiple fighting techniques" and looks like a martial arts style affair. We assume more details about the game will appear at some point soon.
E3 2009 Fight Night 4 Releases 5 Days Early, June 25th
Fight Night Round 4 is shaping up to be one of the most visceral and graphically pleasing sports games of all time
At EA's press briefing last night they announced that the game would be available 5 days earlier than expected, releasing on June 25th. Expect a review on PushSquare around then.
E3 2009 New Dante's Inferno Trailer Is Mad
What you see above is what happens when you take CGI, a classic novel and craft it all together into one sub-3 minute trailer with sole intent of getting people excited for your game
Dante's Inferno looks amazing in our opinion.
E3 2009 The Beatles: Rock Band Songs Revealed
During Microsoft's Press Briefing today Harmonix showed the first real footage and details of The Beatles: Rock Band
The game has a really exciting look to it that perfectly suits the Beatles. The songs announced for the game are as follows: I Saw Her Standing There I Wanna Hold Your Hand I Feel Fine Day Tripper Tax Man I am the Walrus Back in the...
E3 2009 Crytek Announce Crysis 2 For The Playstation 3
Only Killzone 2's graphics are talked about as much as those in Crysis
Simply put, on a high-end PC, Crysis is technically the best looking game ever built. And now it's coming to the Playstation 3, via the creatively titled Crysis 2. Nothing else is known about the game, aside from the fact it will be built with the new CryENGINE3. Fact: this will...
E3 2009 New Need For Speed Shift Trailer Reveals Blistering Speeds
Here's a new trailer for the upcoming reboot to the Need For Speed franchise, Shift
The game certainly looks gorgeous, with a really interesting cock-pit viewpoint. The game should be out this fall. Looks really fun. The game will have over 65 real cars and 18 real-life circuits.
First Impressions Rock Band Unplugged on Playstation Portable
Rock Band Unplugged is essentially a compilation of the following parts: the concept of the Playstation 2's Amplitude, a rock-and-roll background and the system-selling name of Rock Band
Oh, and there's not really any electronic music either. Hell no, commercial rock all the way. Ahem. Kicking it with Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" (we can...
E3 2009 Dante's Inferno On The Cusp Of Absolutely Epic
So, Dante's Inferno may be an absolute outrage if you're a literature snob, but, we think it's starting to look really, really cool
Cue this new trailer which is both epic, disturbing and totally awesome. Apparently it makes a mockery of the book though. Whatever, we hate pretentious people.
News Take A Tour Of Big Surf Island In Burnout Paradise
Probably the biggest and most anticipated update coming to Burnout Paradise is the addition of an entirely new island; Big Surf Island
It's been a long time coming but finally the DLC is on the home straight. If you simply can't wait, this video should take you through everything you need to know about the new content.
News Rock Band Unplugged DLC Includes Mute Math
A leaked version of Rock Band Unplugged blew the door on the official track listing this weekend
But what of DLC? The first batch, due for release on June 9th, will include popular tracks from the franchise's bigger brother's library. They are: 30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill"Belly - "Feed the Tree"Disturbed - "Inside the...
News The Real Mirror's Edge, Probably Better Than The Game
Some photographers are really good
They blur the lines between real life and not-so-real-life. Cue Jesse James Allen and his crew, who've literally brought Mirror's Edge to life with this outstanding photoset. Check it all out here.
