More Social Functions Coming to Origin on More Platforms
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
When EA re-launched their digital download service as Origin as a direct competitor to the hugely successful Steam, it had a lot to live up to, and with the exception of consistently fast download speeds, it still arguably falls short in much of its functionality.
However, EA have big plans for their orange online store-front and in their recent investor conference (via: seekingalpha), revealed that more social features and more ways of accessing the store are in the works.
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AusGamers Darksiders 2 Haydn Dalton Video Interview
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Kicking off the year with more video interviews and exclusive access, today we have our promised Darksiders II developer interview with the game’s lead designer, Haydn Dalton.
Apart from revealing the man behind the death-mask (me!), Haydn reveals a lot about what’s gone into the game from a combat balance perspective, especially with the new RPG elements, and also talks about boss battles being more like puzzles than actual straight-forward combat. He also talks about the team wearing...
Star Wars: The Old Republic Sub Numbers and More Australian Launch Confirmations
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
In their Q3 2012 Earnings Call for investors yesterday (via: seekingalpha), Electronic Arts’ various big wigs were all very chuffed with the successful launch of BioWare’s first MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
On the topic of the game’s success, The EA Labels President Frank Gibeau confirmed that the game has sold through 2 million units since it’s December launch and has “a little over 1.7 million active subscribers”, explaining that “the rest have...
Friday Media Matinée 2012-02-03
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Another day, another matinée – here are all the gaming-related videos that have crossed our desktops since the last screening:
Ghost Recon Future Soldier “Singleplayer Reveal” Trailer
Game of Thrones “Riverspring” Trailer
Lollipop Chainsaw “Pre-Order Bonus Skins” Trailer
Risen 2: Dark Waters “Move!” Dev Diary #3 Trailer
Star Trek Online “The 2800″ Trailer
Natural Selection 2 “Gorilla” Trailer
Trials Evolution “Features”...
Seamus Blackley To Launch Mobile-Game Start-Up, Innovative Leisure
Posted by G4TV on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The co-creator of the Xbox, Seamus Blackley, has announced his plans to launch a mobile-games studio, Innovative Leisure. Aided by a team of famous designers from Atari, he hopes to change the industry with iPhone and iPad games. Blackley will bring everything you loved about the arcade to the iOS.
“We are looking at the new arcade, and 99 cents on the iPhone is the new quarter,” said Blackley in an interview with VentureBeat.
The dream team of developers includes the creators of games...
Six Reasons You Should Still Be Excited About Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Posted by G4TV on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
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Ghost Recon Future Solider Trailer Shows Off More Campaign Gameplay
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, showing off some gameplay action (or at least, in-engine action captured from cinematic camera angles) from the game’s singleplayer campaign.
For some reason they’re touting it as a “singleplayer reveal”, but we have previously had tastes of gameplay from both singleplayer and multiplayer. Hit the embed below for this latest clip (or click here for the HD video page.
Ghost Recon: Future Solder is due...
Tidbits From Today’s Unhappy THQ Earning Call
Posted by Giant Bomb on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
This probably summarizes what it feels like at THQ right now–a flaming pile of uDraw tablets.
It’s not good times over at THQ headquarters, which expected to spend today’s quarterly earnings all pumping its fists about the great sales of WWE 12 and Saints Row: The Third, and instead had to explain how uDraw turned into a monstrously bad bet for it.
THQ is sitting on no less than 1.4 million unsold uDraw tablets. The success of uDraw on Wii convinced THQ it could see similar results on...
Modern Warfare 3 DLC Season Finally Dated for PS3, PC Still MIA
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Sony’s PlayStation Blog have confirmed that PlayStation 3 owners can expect Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s DLC season to kick off on the 28th of February 2012 in the US (so Feb 29th for Aus), at which point subscribers of the Call of Duty: Elite service will have access to the first two new maps for the game Piazza and Liberation — yes, the same ones that Xbox 360 subscribers could access a week ago.
With Call of Duty DLC offerings looking to consistently lag a month behind...
Rage PC Patch Finally Arrives, Available for Mac
Posted by AusGamers on Feb 02, 2012 | Leave a Comment
After a delay that seemed to be quite annoying to many PC gamers, the 1.2 patch for Rage has finally arrived. The biggest new feature seemed to do with the texture detail problem that caused hassles for many at release:Texture Detail: Enabling Texture Detail will improve up-close texture quality by performing upsampling with adaptive sharpening. This does not update or increase the resolution of the base textures included with the game but improves the perceived resolution and crispness of textures....
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