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Electronic Arts has announced a new title in the Battlefield series today, this one called Battlefield Play4Free. It's a PC title and to play it, it'll cost you exactly what you'd expect — nothing.
The game is said to be a "deep PC shooter featuring signature Battlefield vehicular warfare, sandbox gameplay, and intense 32-player online battles. They're currently accepting signs up for the closed beta on its website; those accepted will get a chance to start shooting at things at the end of November.
EA calls the game a combination of Battlefield 2 and Bad Company 2, with the most popular maps from the former and the classes and weapons of the latter. Expect some kind of link between Play4Free, Battlefield Heroes (which is also free to play) and the upcoming Battlefield 3.
What's the catch? Well, microtransactions of course, although EA is quiet on the specifics. But from what we can tell, the core experience won't cost you a cent, so that's the good news. Expect it to be go wide in spring of 2011.
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What does two years, $1200, and a hell of a lot of talent get you? An impressive Half-Life-inspired fan film, called Beyond Black Mesa.
The trailer just made its debut online, and it's chock full of impressive special effects, slick action, and relentless Combine soldiers. Directed by Brian Curtin, the film focuses on a resistance fighter named Adrian Shephard who, along with others, is attempting to send out a warning of an impending invasion.
More details on the film can be found on its official website.
Beyond Black Mesa: Half-Life Fan Film Trailer [Game Set Watch]
MTV Games and Harmonix have already released downloadable content for Dance Central, giving dancers the opportunity to add three more tracks to their 32 on-disc-setlist.
Now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace are three dance routines for Ne-Yo's "Because of You," Sean Paul's "Temperature," and "Lady Sovereign's "I Got You Dancing." Each track will cost you 240 MS Points a piece.
Wondering why the tracks cost more than Rock Band songs? Dance moves, silly! It's apparently more work to choreograph a dance number than it is to chart instrument parts for a song. Everyone knows they just randomly dump colored into a super program for that anyhow.
It was leaked earlier this year, but now it's confirmed: Artificial Mind & Movement are developing a game based on the upcoming film, Rango.
It's called Rango: The Video Game (shocking), and will be published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS. Inspired by the upcoming film (which features the voice of Johnny Depp), the game takes place in an Old West town called "Dirt, where players rob through a gritty, pint-sized Wild West filled with wild rides, off-color characters and frantic shoot-outs."
Rango: The Video Game hits next March, just in time for when the film hits theaters.
When I spoke with God of War III director Stig Asmussen at GDC earlier this year, he was pretty open about what they cut from the final game. Now, 1UP has cornered him on the subject again, getting the first footage of some of the cut-scenes in action. (Note: Potential spoilers below.)
The first is a water-based puzzle featuring Ixion. The other is a massive three-way battle between Kratos, Zeus, and Gaia which originally served as the game's finale. It's actually hinted at in the final product, and it's pretty cool to see it in action.
Head over the 1up for the footage and the accompanying interview.
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The intro to Harmonix's Dance Central is pretty cool. So cool, in fact, that I almost pulled footage of it myself to be all "Here, look at this!"
Well, good thing I decided to play the game instead, because MTV Games and Harmonix just released the intro themselves. It's good to be lazy.
Amusing side note, the file they sent out was named "Hammer Intro," a reference to the title's codename, "Hammer." Maybe they should have chanced the file name. Also, this opening kind of reminds me of the video for Timex Social Club's "Rumors," which is the most amazing song ever.
Dance Central was one of my favorite Kinect launch titles; check out my review for why I think you should shake your booty.
Does Kinect mean the end for controller-based gaming on the Xbox 360? It's a silly question, but it seems a lot of folks are threatened by the new technology, wondering if more traditional experiences will fade into obscurity as Microsoft focuses on controller-free gaming.
There's been very little to indicate that would be the case, so everyone should probably settle down. More interesting, though, would be the marriage between the Kinect technology and standard controller gaming. According to Microsoft's Alex Kipman, controller/Kinect hybrid titles are definitely in the works.
"We'll continue to have controller-only games," he tells Games Industry, "We love controller-free games, we love Kinect experiences, and we'll continue to grow our set of those as well. What we haven't really talked about, but exist, are hybrid games."
The concept has always appealed to me from when the hardware was first announced, pieces of a game that would allow gesture-based controls like navigating menus or manipulating items on a HUD. If anyone can make it work and compelling is another story, but it'll be interesting to see the directions the creative minds of the industry will take it.
Kipman: Hybrid control games on the way to Xbox 360 [Games Industry]
Activision has revealed today that Sean Murray, the composer behind Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War, will be returning to score Call of Duty: Black Ops. According to Wikipedia, Murray also provided music for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series, and this makes him and this news awesome.
The soundtrack will be available online for purchase and download from digital media retailers, including iTunes. Tracks will be $.99 a piece, or you can buy the whole shebang for $11.99. Alternately, you can just buy Black Ops and let it run in a constant loop in the background while you do dishes and stuff.
Black Ops is out soon… oh, hey! It's out next week, on November 9, which is when the soundtrack will be available.
Last night, Microsoft took over New York City's Times Square for the launch of Kinect for Xbox 360. Andrew Melnizek was there to catch the action, which went from Toys "R" Us sales to an after party at the Hard Rock Cafe.
It sounds like Microsoft went all out for this, lining the streets of Times Square with over 600 dancer and playing host to execs like Don Mattrick, Kudo Tsunoda, Aaron Greeberg, Harmonix's Alex Rigopulos, Toy "R" Us CEO Gerald Storch, and more. Epic's Cliff Blezinski also showed up, as well as rappers Lady Sovereign and Ne-Yo. This morning, Microsoft's Greenberg tweeted that they'd be opening NASDAQ this morning, too.
Check our all of our Kinect launch coverage, including reviews of hardware and games here.
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Here's a video of Hulk Hogan playing Def Jam Rapstar with his daughter Brooke, while "Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart fondles an Xbox 360 controller. This isn't a trick or a dream — this is actually happening.
You're welcome.