Without a doubt, the Call of Duty franchise has ruled the first-person shooter genre for the current generation. However, publisher Electronic Arts is attempting to take Activision’s thunder with their latest entry to the FPS market, the reboot of the Medal of Honor series. With both Medal of Honor and Call of Duty: Black Ops [...]
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Analyst: Call of Duty Black Ops to Triple Medal of Honor Sales
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010PlayStation Release Horizon – Week of October 11, 2010
Monday, October 11th, 2010Isn’t capitalism a beautiful concept? It’s that time of year again where game of the year editions and complete editions are released to give gamers on a budget a great value while cashing in on some easy profit; a win-win situation, right? This weeks marks the launch of undoubtedly the most controversial game this year. [...]
Jack Thompson: Gamers Can “Go To Hell”
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Jack Thompson just will not leave the video game industry alone, despite the fact that he has been permanently disbarred from practising law since September 2008. With the recent change in EA’s Medal of Honor game, the activist has a few choice words towards gamers.
Medal of Honor Remains Unwelcomed at American Military Bases
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Just weeks ago it was confirmed that American military bases would no longer be selling the upcoming Medal of Honor title due to the inclusion of playable Taliban units. As a result, EA’s hand was pushed to remove playable Taliban from the game in order to appease the military crowd. Unfortunately, it simply wasn’t enough as the American military has chosen to remain absent from the release of Medal of Honor.
EA Speaks Out About Medal of Honor’s New Opposing Forces
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010Given the major outcry against the creative aspects of the upcoming Medal of Honor reboot, Electronic Arts opted to essentially remove the term “Taliban” from the multiplayer segment of the title. As with any controversy, an opposing opinion is present to dispute any change. With gamers calling out EA for giving in to the mainstream [...]
Consumer Feedback is Hurting Developers’ Creative Vision
Friday, October 1st, 2010Consumer feedback has led EA to remove the Taliban from Medal of Honor, but is this really a good thing?
Medal of Honor Most Pre-ordered in Series’ History
Friday, October 1st, 2010I reckon it’s that beard. There’s just something about it which screams “pre-order me!!”
Medal of Honor Recruits Award-Winning Composer for Score
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Forget what you know about the Medal of Honor series. No longer is the series rooted in during the World War II, like every previous entry in the series. Due to the of amazing success of the Modern Warfare series, Medal of Honor has been thrown into the present day, as you battle as both Army Rangers and Tier 1 Operators in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. To reflect these changes, EA and Danger Close Games have done their best to show these changes in game. Now the teams have something else to hang on their mantle as a Hollywood Award-winning Composer has joined the ensemble to help craft the game’s epic score.
Forget what you know about the Medal of Honor series. No longer is the series rooted in during the World War II, like every previous entry in the series. Due to the of amazing success of the Modern Warfare series, Medal of Honor has been thrown into the present day, as you battle as both Army Rangers and Tier 1 Operators in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. To reflect these changes, EA and Danger Close Games have done their best to show these changes in game. Now the teams have something else to hang on their mantle as a Hollywood Award-winning Composer has joined the ensemble to help craft the game’s epic score.
EA Dead Set on Taking Down Call of Duty
Saturday, September 25th, 2010The Medal of Honor franchise hasn’t garnered much support over the past few years due to stunted innovation and low sales, as Activision’s Call of Duty series consistently outperformed any and all contenders in the first-person shooter war genre, year-after-year. Well, this just isn’t sitting well with EA, and now they plan to do something [...]
Treyarch Pulling Out the Guns for Medal of Honor
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010The revival of the Medal of Honor series by Electronic Arts has garnered quite a bit of attention thanks to its true-to-life subject matter set in the present-day universe. While the general consensus appears to be the every nation and their mother against EA, a competitor has risen to the “call of duty” in defense [...]
New Trailer, Screens For James Bond 007: Blood Stone Released
Monday, September 20th, 2010Activision’s next James Bond title, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, is arguably looking set to be the best installment in the James Bond videogame franchise. The publisher has now released a new trailer which shows the developers discussing the game’s story and features. In addition, a new batch of screens have been released for the [...]
EA Releases Medal of Honor Single-player Shots
Monday, September 20th, 2010With EA reiterating on multiple occasions that Medal of Honor is aiming to win the shooter genre back for the publisher, they’ll have to convince potential consumers that the reboot is the game to play once it’s released. EA has now released four new screenshots showing off the shooters’ impressive single-player.
Medal of Honor to Cease Existing if Sales Don’t Satisfy
Saturday, September 11th, 2010Medal of Honor was one of the most defining first-person shooters on the PlayStation 1 platform. More than ten years later, over a dozen iterations of the series have been released, several of which have been very popular. Sadly, according to an employee of the team working on the upcoming Medal of Honor title, if [...]
GameStop Will Not Promote Medal of Honor on Military Bases
Saturday, September 4th, 2010If Electronic Arts didn’t already enough trouble about the latest reboot of their Medal of Honor franchise, it turns out the used game giant GameStop will no longer have anything to do with the game on US military bases throughout the country.
Medal of Honor is Battle Hardened and Ready to Serve
Saturday, September 4th, 2010The revival of the Medal of Honor series has earned great controversial and critical attention. As such, EA is undoubtedly driving home everything the game has to offer with no strings attached. Next in it’s “The Medal of Honor Experience” theatrics is an all-new trailer demonstrating the Medal of Honor take on aerial perspective combat.
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