While Infinity Ward is still mixed up in their shuffle with Activision, EA and DICE seem to be going very well. The mega publisher just released the DICE-developed Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which has started a hilarious campaign against their direct competitor, Modern Warfare 2. First, DICE made a pot shot against some of the features available in MW2, and now, they continue their mockery with a new video.

There was an uproar near Modern Warfare 2’s release with the F.A.G.S video, meaning Fight Against Grenade Spam. This video was quickly taken down, after there was a problem with the abbreviation of the four words combined. Now, DICE and EA have responded to the video, with one of their own.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 released March 2nd. You can check out our review of the title, while you wait from a possible comeback from Infinity Ward. Hey, it might happen.

Guerrilla’s Games‘ Killzone franchise has dominated the shooting genre since the release of Killzone 2, which tapped into the PlayStation 3’s capabilities and demonstrated the true potential of the console. However, Guerrilla believe they have not yet “hit the limit” with Sony’s system.

Speaking in the latest issue of Edge, Guerrilla reckons it still hasn’t showcased the PS3’s power fully. The co-founder of Guerrilla, Hermen Hylst stated:

We’re satisfied that we demonstrated the potential of the hardware.

But we realise that further optimisations are always possible and that we haven’t hit the limit yet.

Could these statements be hinting at Killzone 3’s existence? We can only speculate for now, but it can’t be too long now, right?

There a few unforgettable racing games out in the market, but Codemasters’ Formula 1 2010 truly delivers a whole new sense of speed. To make gamers understand why F1 2010 is one of the most anticipated racers this calender year, the Codemasters team have released the first developer’s diary, which includes unseen gameplay footage of the title.

The dev dairy video features the Pre-Alpha build of the racer, yet the graphical qualities of the title shine through, so one should hold high expectations for F1 2010.

Check out the video which contains new gameplay footage of the game below:

From the creators of the highly successful Colin McRae: Dirt and Race Driver: GRID titles, Codemasters will be integrating the Ego Engine into Formula 1 2010. F1 2010 will be racing to stores this September.

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MLB 10 The Show is already the premier baseball on the market and does justice to the game in almost every aspect.  Not everything is perfect though, but thats the beauty of patches, which is something MLB 10 will be receiving this Thursday.  The patch should fix a number of issues that players have had during the first few weeks of the season.  Check below for a full list of the patch details.

- Fixed issue with the auto-fix feature in rosters not working correctly all the time when a downloaded roster was used.

- Fixed issue to accurately show the number of games in progress when looking at the game/lobby room list.

- Fixed issue causing players placed on trade waivers to not be withdrawn if claimed by a user controlled team (offline season).

- Fixed issues with attendance.

- Make sure players placed on release waivers retain their contracts until they clear waivers.

- Allow teams to send down a reliever and keep 2 closers on the roster.

- Only allow the CPU to trade a player once per season.

- Unranked Online Games should not count towards points, win/loss nor stats.

- Fixed issue causing trades to be offered by the user’s team even when set to MANUAL trades.

- Fix catcher throw decisions when AUTOTHROWING is on

- Create a player using these stances/deliveries:

Stances:
Bay, Jason
Barmes, Clint
Barton, Daric
Fukudome, Kosuke
Kemp Matt
Longoria, Evan

Pitch Deliveries:
Kuroda, Hiroki
Lilly, Ted

- Scout challenge from certain locations addressed.

- Intentional walk Online gaemplay issue addressed.

- Merged Sounds of the show fix. Fix for overflow problem when storing more than 255 songs. This is referring to storing the songs in a playlist.

- Exiting chatroom fix after completing the game.

- Fixed bug with ball warping into fielder’s glove from the outfield on a line drive.

- Fix exiting Bullpen issue.

- Addressed issue with large attendance numbers being displayed properly.

- Fixed bug causing position players to be in the bullpen leading to an issue in franchise and career mode.

So get ready to step back in that batter’s box and take a swing at an updated pitch this Thursday the 18th.

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When Skate was introduced, it was hailed the best skating game, triumphing over the languishing Tony Hawk’s titles. Now skating fanatics will be eager to find out more about EA’s latest installment in the Skate franchise. SKATE 3 will add more tricks and flips from its predecessor to make it one of the best skating titles in the market.

Electronic Arts has announced today that SKATE 3, the latest title in the award-winning franchise, will be in skating to North America on May 11th, 2010 and to European stores on May 14th.

Jason DeLong, senior producer of the title speaks about how the Skate IP has become such an impact in the gaming scene, and how Skate 3 will continue that:

Since the very beginning of the Skate franchise, we have captured the true essence skateboarding, be it from the feel of nailing that perfect trick, to the feeling of just hanging out and sessioning with your friends. For us, SKATE 3 is the culmination of this endeavor – the most connected, accessible and social skateboarding experience yet.

EA has also released a trailer of the game, view it below:

SKATE 3 will feature a deep roster of the world’s greatest skaters including several Thrasher Skater of the Year winners. Skate 3 will offer everything its predecessor did but more with darkslides and underflips, along with the all-new city of Port Caverton – a true skater’s paradise with unique districts, endless lines and all-new skate parks.

Are you skaters excited!?

On Xbox 360, Bayonetta has been one of the best received titles so far for the platform. For PS3? Not so much. The PS3 version of the title was plagued with excruciating loading times, screen tearing, and glitches. This somewhat tarnished the image of Platinum Games, who handed the development over to SEGA for the PlayStation 3 port. However, the developer wants to change their image around, with their newest title Vanquish.

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, who is helming Vanquish, has explained why the title will be using PS3 as the lead platform.

“The team know less about making games for PS3 than Xbox 360, so we thought the sensible thing to do was to make the game on PS3 first then move it over to Xbox. If we can get Vanquish to a certain standard on PS3, we can make Xbox the same.”

Vanquish hits Winter 2010.

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Quantic Dream’s ambitious cinematic thriller took the gaming scene by storm. However, whilst Heavy Rain is being played by millions of gamers enjoying the game’s unique experience, there are a few who are experiencing some difficulties playing the PlayStation 3 exclusive.

Various players are reporting problems regarding freezing, making the game unplayable. A dev from Quantic Dream has posted the company’s latest position on the issues:

The latest news is that the game patch has now completed development and is currently in the final stages of testing. While a fixed release date is not currently available we are expecting the update to be released very soon.

As mentioned previously, this patch is not targetted purely at the issues reported in this thread but does address a range of minor issues which could be contributing factors. Given the small percentage of players affected by these issues and the difficulty that has been had in reproducing them here we’re optimistic that this patch resolves your problems but cannot guarantee that this will be the case.

Are you one of those who is unfortunately experiencing the difficulties? Let us know in the comments section below.

After what seems like an eternal ’slumber’ in development, the latest entry into the ever popular Kingdom Hearts series is nearly upon us. Coming exclusively to the PSP(that is until Square Enix decides to port it to the consoles) Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will launch this Summer in the US and Europe. The best part? Like many Square Enix titles outside of Japan, we will receive some oh so sweet new content for our patience.

Not only will we receive a top-notch Square Enix translation job, but it looks like we will receive new multiplayer modes and options, plus an extra boss who’ll probably be ten times more difficult than the last boss. Square Enix just loves doing that, don’t cha’ know.

It’s also rumored that ‘megaflare’ will be weakened and that some boss who were considered ‘too easy’ will be given a boost of toughness to make them worthy adversaries.. Yikes.

Although Square Enix ‘confirmed’ Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will be hitting this summer, an exact release date wasn’t mentioned. Once we find out, we will pass the news on to all of you Kingdom Hearts (including myself).

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The PlayStation 3 features nearly everything one could need for home entertainment. Not only is Sony’s black behemoth machine capable of playing games, it’s a feature rich multi-media center as well.  Sony has been improving the consoles capabilities since the 2.40 update with Trophies, TV shows, countless movies and a useful in-game XMB system. Still the PS3 could use a few more improvements, for instance: cross-game chat.Now Sony are allowing gamers to get their voice heard with the all-new PlayStation.Blog Share. Share is a “subset of the PlayStation.Blog” where readers can submit their ideas about everything related to PlayStation to help improve the overall PlayStation experience, with an option to vote on other peoples ideas.

Similar to Digg and Reddit’s vote system, readers will be able to vote positive or negative on what like and dislike. Sony will be keeping a close eye on the popularity of each idea based on votes.

The most popular ideas right now on the PlayStation.Blog Share page is a new notifications design, reporting users, fixing the PS3 browser, integration of screen capturing for every game, and something we could all opt for: Demos for all PSN games on the day of release.

Head over to PlayStation.Blog Share to submit your ideas.

Spider-Man games have not exactly been stellar as of late, just ask Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. We certainly hope Activison will think of new ways to make Spider-Man games more appealing and worthy of our hard earned money. It seems as though we’ll find out their plans for the web-slinging franchise soon enough…

The cover of the April issue of GamePro magazine was recently unveiled and if you can stop trying to read the words on Sam Fisher’s face for just a second, you can spot the top of the magazine teases a new Spider-Man game titled Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.

What is this game about? We don’t know, but you can soon find out when GamePro’s April issue ships this week and will be on newsstands early April.

This week marks the very first pre-order program for a PSN downloadable title. Starting on March 18, users will be able to pre-order the upcoming Sam & Max: Devil’s Playhouse. Other than that, expect plenty of DLC. Don’t forget to check out the latest episode of The Tester.

The Tester – Episode 5

Patchwork Heroes (PSP)

Wakeboarding HD [EU]

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse (Pre-order only)

Minis (PSP and PS3)

Guitar Hero 5 DLC – Frogging Molly Track Pack

• “Requiem for a Dying Song”
• “(No More) Paddy’s Lament”
• “The Seven Deadly Sins”

Rock Band DLC

• Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
• Lady Gaga – “Just Dance”
• Lady Gaga – “Monster”
• Lady Gaga – “Poker Face”
• 3 Doors Down – “It’s Not My Time”
• Mute Math – “Control”
• South Park – “Poker Face (Cartman version)”
• The Subways – “Oh Yeah”
• The Subways – “Rock & Roll Queen”

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Just Cause 2 is coming in a few weeks, just in time for everyone to take a lighthearted trip to an imaginary tropical paradise for a while in between rounds of killing Zeus. For those wondering if this game will have DLC and what sort of an online community might exist for this game, your questions have been answered.

New barrels via DLC?

According to lead designer Peter Johansson, the people over at Avalanche Studios are “going to have some fun with DLC…We’re going to have a lot of DLC.” Pricing and further details were not revealed, but some information was given as to a potential online website with stat-tracking, perhaps like those available for games such as Killzone 2 or Rockstar’s Social Club:

“I’m not sure what the plans are from [Publisher] Square’s side, but we are definitely going to do that for the game; we’ll have these metrics, lots of metrics, and everything in as simple a form as we can do.”

Just Cause 2 releases in North America on March 23th and in Europe on the 26th for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms.

The original Kane and Lynch title was released back in 2007 to a mixed reception. However developer IO Interactive and publisher Eidos are sticking by the third person shooter franchise with their sequel entitled Kane & Lynch: Dog Days. IO Interactive has now let  the “dog” out the bag with the game’s release date as well as a brand spankin’ new trailer.

IO Interactive has as promised confirmed that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will release on August 24th, 2010 in North America and will unleash the Dogs in August 27th throughout European territories.

Niels Jørgensen, general manager of IO Interactive believes the game will have a big impact:

We believe the unique visuals and relentless gameplay has created an intensity never delivered in a video game before. In a genre where so many games look and feel the same, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will make people double-take. We think it’s going to make quite an impression.

To celebrate the news, the developers have released the games second new trailer since its announcement. Check it out below.

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will also feature the intriguing aspect of new multiplayer modes, including Undercover Cop, Cops & Robbers and the return of Fragile Alliance.

Kevin Butler commercials are a popular thing of late. The VP of practically everything has recently promoted God of War III with a very humorous commercial. Live the case with God of War III, Kevin usually is promoting a product that is either already released or will be very soon after the commercial has aired. However his latest commercial, is for the PlayStation Move, which is set to release later this Fall. What does the VP of “Only Does Everything” see for the future?

The latest commercial with the VP of “Realistic Movements” has emerged. Kevin Butler visits from November, 2010 to promote the recently announced PlayStation Move, and does probably the most perfect and hilarious imitation of Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Project Natal.

Check out the Kevin Butler “Moves” from the FUTURE video below.

Even though Zipper Interactive is busy working on SOCOM 4 (and adding PlayStation Move support to boot!), they’re still hard at work making MAG the best 256-player FPS that it can be. Even though an update was recently released on the 12th, yet another update, 1.04A is ready for deployment and has some substantial improvements.

Even back during the Beta phase for MAG, fans complained that the S.V.E.R. faction had an unfair advantage with in the Sabotage mode. The Syr Daria Uplink will no longer have a clear advantage for S.V.E.R. soldiers as things have changed. Check out the updates below.

Gameplay

• Adjusted player boundaries to limit “spawn camping” exploits in Darien Network, Copper Hills Relay and Syr Daria Uplink maps.

Map – Syr Daria Uplink

• Pushed in physical defensive boundary for Attacker’s “Alpha Squad” spawns 10 meters.
• Removed two short staircases in front of Attacker’s “Alpha Squad” spawn.
• Relocated box truck to block sightline on attacker’s right side at “Objective A” stairwell.
• Added box truck to block sightline exploit to Attacker’s “Alpha” squad main entrance.
• Added fence line to Attacker’s right side at “Objective A.”
• Pushed parachute drop near “Objective C” forward by 25 meters.
• Added new entrance to “Objective C” building in right corner.
• Added additional geometry near “Objective C” to block sightline exploits near main door.
• Added and removed various small object and panel locations to repair or enhance sightlines.
• Multiple terrain repaints in various locations.

Technical

• Fixed crash that sometimes occurred when reviving players who died while interacting with objective.

Look for this update starting tomorrow. Now how about some DLC, Zipper Interactive?!?

If you haven’t picked up MAG yet, check out our review and if you do buy it, make sure you read our ‘How to create a better character in MAG’ or ‘A Modern Warfare’s Players Guide to MAG’ guides to become the best MAG player that you can be.

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