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Update: Ubisoft has confirmed the Uplay Passport, which the publisher says begins in the coming months and will be included “in many of Ubisoft’s popular core games.”
“Customers who’ve acquired a pre-owned game can purchase a new Uplay Passport online for $9.99 and automatically unlock the game’s…
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Dev wants less hiding, more “gun-on-gun”.
Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer maps are being designed with a “Call of Duty 4 mentality”, Infinity Ward has revealed.
Numerous nooks and crannies are out; simplified, fewer-tiered designs are in.
This not only “discourages the more camper mentality that seems to emerge in the map design of Modern Wafare 2”, Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling told Kotaku – it also “simplifies it so that the less skilled player has less to think about”.
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If you’re still rocking-out with Call of Duty: Black Ops on your PlayStation 3 or PC, you may have been eagerly awaiting the Annihilation Map Pack to freshen-up your online experience. Your friends with an Xbox 360 have already been playing these new maps, and now Activision has given an exact date as to when PS3 and PC gamers can get in on the fun, too…
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Cevat Yerli expects Sony’s next handheld to have a hard time carving out its market against tablets, mobile devices, and the 3DS.
The PlayStation Vita may be Sony’s next-generation handheld, but one developer wonders if the upcoming portable system is already behind the times. In a newly published interview with Develop, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli expressed appreciation for Sony and the PS Vita, as well as skepticism about their commercial prospects.
“The Vita is an absolutely fantastic platform, but it will have a hard time, and it might be too late,” Yerli said. “I love Sony as a company, and we have great relations with them, but the Vita is going to have a hard time against the next generation mobiles and all the tablets. There’s also the 3DS investing in this market.”
Yerli went on to say the winners in the portable market would be determined partly by content, but also by “the platform’s ability to receive the content.”
While Yerli characterizes his relationship with Sony positively, it isn’t very old. The March launch of Crysis 2 marked Crytek’s first excursion on a Sony platform for the previously PC-exclusive developer. While rumors spread last month that the studio intended to finish up the multiplatform TimeSplitters 4–which was in development at Free Radical when Crytek acquired the company–Crytek has no officially announced projects on the way for PlayStation 3 or Vita.
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Santa Monica, CA – Call of Duty: Black Ops is T-minus 13 days away from launching its latest content pack on the PlayStation 3 entertainment system and Windows PC with the worldwide release of Annihilation, the third DLC for the blockbuster title from Activision and Treyarch…
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Latest $15 add-on for Treyarch’s Call of Duty period shooter two weeks out for Sony fans and the computer crowd.
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Treasures plus expansion for October.
A Velvet Game of the Year Edition has been announced for role-playing game Two Worlds II.
This seductive package will be released in October and wrapped in either black (PC/Mac) or red velvet (console). Real actual metal from the real world will feature on the corner of the stylish box and on an eye-catching Two Worlds II box logo.
A “huge” double-sided world map can be found inside the box, as can a “valuable” pirate head pin collectible that you can also find in-game. Attach it to armour boost your character’s “parameters”. Not sure if this works in real-life.
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Disney buying Black Rock “made no sense”.
Epic Games’ European boss Mike Gamble has blamed the recent spate of high-profile triple-A game developer closures on “stupid acquisitions” made by publishers.
Gamble highlighted Disney Interactive’s purchase of Pure and Split/Second developer Black Rock, which recently closed down, as an example.
“It’s happened because of stupid acquisitions,” he told Eurogamer at Epic Games’ recent Unreal Engine University day in London.
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Vigil looked at Relic’s combat system.
Dawn of War developer Relic will help Vigil with the creation of massively multiplayer online game Warhammer 40k: Dark Millennium Online once it wraps up work on the soon-to-be-released Space Marine.
The collaboration began earlier, though. Vigil took a close look at the combat system used in the brutal third-person action game with a view to perhaps incorporating it into the mysterious MMO.
“There’s no crossover narrative,” Relic marketing manager James McDermott told Eurogamer.
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Group with friends from any server.
Blizzard is testing a new Real ID Party feature in World of Warcraft.
It lets you invite Battle.net friends who use Real ID to your five-person WOW dungeon group – regardless of the realm/server they play on. You can all play together at the click of a button. But you must all belong to the same faction, either Horde or Alliance.
Real ID Party only works with five-person normal or Heroic dungeon groups. Friends on other servers must use the Real ID Battle.net feature for Real ID Party to work. You can only invite your Real ID friends, not friends of friends. Groups can contain Real ID friends and normal players from your server.
