We already know about Battlefield Heroes, EA’s free to play Battlefield game. EA has announced that is is extending that business model with a new hardcore free to play Battlefield PC title dubbed Battlefield Play4Free. Battlefield Play4Free is being developed by DICE. EA says the Battlefield Play4Free will feature the vehicles, sandbox environments and 32-player […]

Remember Uplay rewards in Assassin’s Creed 2? They’re back in AC: Brotherhood. Watch the new video below which shows you how to get started with Uplay and what sort of exclusive rewards you can unlock. Sweet. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is out on November 16 2010 in the US and November 19 2010 in the UK […]

Blizzard has revealed that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty has shipped 3 million copies around the world in its first debut month. Blizzard reported that StarCraft 2 sold 1.5 million copies in its first 48 hours of release. StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty released on July 27th for PC. Development on it started way back […]

Speaking at London Games Conference, Bigpoint CEO Heiko Hubertz doubts that EA/BioWare’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic “will ever be profitable.” “If you look at Star Wars from EA and BioWare, they estimated a development budget of over $100m,” he explained. “This is an online game for many million of subscribers, so the […]

Epic Games design director and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski believe that Heavy Rain would have sold better if Sony marketed the game directly to women. Speaking in an interview with BioShock creator Ken Levine posted on Irrational Games’ website, Cliffy B explained, “I hate to sound misogynistic but it feels like such a […]

Speaking in a post-earnings conference call, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said “We will launch a new first-person action title during the back half of 2011.” He neither named the game nor confirmed a developer for it. The latest Call of Duty: Black Ops is scheduled for release on November 9 for PC, PS3, Wii, […]

Speaking in an interview with MCV, Mircosoft’s Stephen McGill said that “everybody knows” Black Ops plays best on Xbox 360: “With Kinect and Call of Duty it’s an incredible week for retail; they are going to be so busy,” says McGill. “Obviously everyone knows the best place to play Black Ops is on Xbox 360. […]

Gran Turismo 5 has already gone gold and work on Gran Turismo 6 has already started. So, when does Gran Turismo 5 release? Speaking to Siliconera, Sony’s Peter Dille says “it is coming before Christmas” as Yamauchi also said last month. However, they “haven’t put a [exact] date” to GT5. “Yeah, Kazunori came out with […]

Crytek has a lofty goal with Crysis 2 which seeks to overthrow Call of Duty. Speaking to Gamasutra, Crytek’s UK Managing Director Karl Hilton was rather confident about Crysis 2: “In multiplayer you see the numbers that they [Activision] achieve and continue to achieve in terms of sales and ongoing players. We’d like to exceed […]

BioWare has announced Dragon Age Legends for Facebook. The game allows players to unlock in-game goods for Dragon Age 2 ahead of its launch on March 2010. Dragon Age Legends releases early 2011 and promises to blend “accessible and engaging tactical combat with compelling co-operative gameplay perfectly suited for social networks,” all inspired by the […]

Kinect has launched and the reviews are surprisingly good. However there’s a dearth (or lack) of hardcore games. That’s soon to change. UK Microsoft marketing chief Stephen MCGill has said in an interview that we can expect hardcore Kinect games to appear in 2011: “We have announced things, at the Tokyo Game Show, a whole […]

Microsoft has apparently included a new anti-piracy measure with the new Kinect Dashboard update for Xbox 360 which locks “backup” games from playing on Xbox Live and (for the first time) prevents “backup” games from loading. Hackers refer to the new checks as “AP 2.5” and while details are scarce about how it actually works, […]

Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, has told AutoWeek that the studio’s already at work on Gran Turismo 6. When asked if Gran Turismo 6 was under development, he said “yeah.” So, when can we expect to see it? “It’s not something that we can talk that lightly on,” said Yamauchi. “It took 2,000 days […]

Trophy support for MGS4 has been high on every gamers wishlist. And it may finally come true. The new “Greatest Hits” packaging for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has a short list of PlayStation Network features available in the title. The list shows it as having online multiplayer, voice chat and trophies […]