Four new Personalization Packs are available today for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players on the Xbox 360.
Here’s a brand new trailer showing off all of the new options. You can pick up each – the Paladin, UK Punk, Afterlife, and Comics – for $1.99 USD. Check out the details here.
Which one are you picking up?
Evolution Studio released a brand new trailer and, as promised, they have announced that Driveclub will be releasing October 7th.
The delayed had to do with not being able to deliver the content they wanted at launch, as explained on the PSBlog.
“We planned for the game to be ready for early 2014 and are committed to delivering on our ambitious promise of creating a truly innovative, socially connected racing game. The problem with being ambitious is you have to be prepared to accept there will be challenges along the way. What DRIVECLUB offers has not been previously achieved in this category and because of this, the team needed more time to give you the game you’re waiting for.”
In addition, the game is still receive a free PS+ version (limited). You can watch the trailer above and also get a good look at how beautiful this game looks in the screenshots below.
Though he’s not quite abandoning his position as CEO of Respawn Entertainment, Zampella is doing double duty as investor, adviser, and board member of the newly formed mobile studio, Nuclear Division.
The ex-Call of Duty creator and mind behind the Xbox and PC shooter Titanfall joins slot machine developer WMS’s former product head Larry Pacey to head up the new outfit, also located in San Francisco. They began recruiting last January and now have just under a dozen employees. Zampella told VentureBeat, however, that the bulk of his activities will still take place at Respawn.
Zampella explained that it’s “silly to ignore” mobile devices in the current gaming landscape. “It’s a device that I play on because I always have it with me… it’s always connected. You’re engaged with it. There’s something you can do with that. I’m not saying one is better than the other, in terms of console versus mobile. It’s a different gaming experience. Both interest me.”
VentureBeat reports that their first mobile title may pop up “a year or so” down the road.
Titanfall on iPad? Would you play it?
Thanks, Eurogamer.
But the studio does “look forward to [their] future conversations around PC,” COO Pete Parsons said, cryptically, when asked about the possibility of the console shooter coming to PC.
“We love the PC. We hear it too. We ask the question of ourselves,” he told Eurogamer during a studio tour.
Destiny is headed to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 this September 9, but not to PC. That leaves a significant portion of anxious fans scratching their heads, considering the game was built on PC in the first place.
“The truth is it’s not that simple,” said Design lead Lars Bakken chimed in earlier. “I wish it was that simple. It’s pretty complicated. That doesn’t mean it can’t happen in the future, it just means it won’t happen right now.
“The console SKUs are really important for us and that’s what we’re focusing on,” Bakken added. “We’re doing it all internally ourselves. That’s a huge endeavour. That’s not something we’ve ever done before.
“So when I’m playtesting and I’m trying to play PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PS3, that’s a lot of work. Adding another thing on there is just crazy. It’s crazy to think of right now.”
Parsons shared similar sentiments, attributing the difficulties to the “one central world” that is Destiny.
“It is not nearly as simple as you think,” he said. “It is one central world no matter what the platform, and so that requires lots of intensive thought.
“Frankly, it’s not a thought we can spend time thinking about right now. Just building up the game and putting it across generations of platforms, and working on platforms we’ve never worked on before with the PlayStation 3, these are very big challenges. I’m thankful we have the engineering team we do.”
There may be truth in Parson’s words, looking at some of the troubles other shooters that launched on all five (or more) platforms seem to be experiencig. So while Destiny on PC may not look feasible any time soon, PC gamers may want to keep their eyes and ears open for news in the future.
More details surface surrounding Watch Dog‘s unique online experience that was shown off in depth last week.
Clarifying some of the confusion spread a couple of days ago, Watch Dog’s creative Director, Jonathan Morin confirmed that every inch of Chicago will be accessible in the online multiplayer.
@JaredGamerr Indeed… But Its the entire city. 🙂
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 28, 2014
Many were also curious as to how players would be able to connect with their own friends. Despite the game not having any sort of lobby/party system, it will feature public and private options that’ll allow you to invite and play with up to 8 players in one free roam session.
@MrCHeard @Hurricane4343 No lobby. You go in the map, switch to the grid & there you can send a request & play while it process. (3 inputs) — Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 28, 2014
Morin then went on to answer other questions regarding cops, abilities during online, mini-games, and other details.
@KuochuanPonzio If they chose to customize their “online appearance for other players” yes.
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 28, 2014
@ItzTagzzy They will arrest you if you are at heat lv 0 and you show no threat or fleeing intent. Else they will be more hostile.
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 29, 2014
@Im_render Its not personal :). No we don’t support MP for these mini-games.
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 29, 2014
@AkioHajime @Ubisoft Yes, you can challenge a friend via the companion app (ctOS Mobile) but you can’t do hacking invasions with it…
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 29, 2014
@_TheDerpSquad_ The helpers and visual still apply but not the slow-mo.
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) April 28, 2014
Watch Dogs is set to launch May 27th on the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and the Xbox One.
Captured from some of today’s earlier footage, we get our first peek of the character creation screen in Bungie’s massive shared-world shooter, Destiny.
Imgur user InternetApplause posted the screens, via FutureWarCult, revealing what character creation Destiny looks like, also showing off a few of the first customization options that you’ll get to fiddle with when you first boot up the game.
Clearly, you can see choices for class, race, gender, face, hair, and even markings. Also of note is our first look at an Awoken female, a playable bluish-pale-skinned race in Destiny.
Check out the screens below:
You can catch more of the different races and classes in action in 7-minute gameplay video from earlier today.
So what race, gender, and class do you think is going to be your first set up when you start your adventure in Bungie’s brave new world this September 9?
Apologies for the misinformation. According to Ubisoft community manager Nik, it turns out the list is, in fact, fake.
The full list of Achievements have been uncovered for Watch Dogs, revealing that the game will feature a grand total of 50 achievements, 11 of which are tied to multiplayer.
Chances are these Achievements will most likely be very similar to PlayStation trophies, with some slight differences. Check them out below.
Watch Dogs is set to launch on may 27th for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
We got nearly 10 minutes of Watch Dogs multiplayer footage last week. If you haven’t seen it yet, do yourself a favor and check it out right here.
In response to overwhelming feedback, Infinity Ward will be altering the statistics of the Bizon sub-machine gun in a future Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer update.
The studio made the short announcement on Twitter today:
![Watch Dogs Achievement List [Updated: Fake]](https://mp1st.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Watch-Dogs-Game-Wallpaper.jpg)
Thanks for all the feedback! We’ll have a Bizon change coming to #CODGhosts soon (ETA: next week). Stay tuned for more info.
— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) April 28, 2014
Twitter user Eric said it best in a very well thought out letter written to the Ghosts dev team:
“A huge component of gun selection in Competitive Call of Duty revolves around Balance. Pre-update, the Mtar has been the most popular gun because it is considered “Good” in the three main ranges (Close Range, Mid Range, and Long Range). The Vector was also a popular option because due to its’ decent rate of fire and its’ strong damage. This made the vector good at close range, great at mid-range, and poor at long range (Too much recoil to be utilized long range). This meta, choosing between a gun that gives you an advantage at range while sacrificing damage up close and vice versa, was sufficient for competitive cod at this point. That meta is now essentially gone.”
“The patch has basically eliminated these two guns as options and is forcing players to only use Bizons.”
You can read the full list of feedback notes here, including a number of examples, which multiplayer designers at Infinity Ward have taken note of:
@CrsMuddawg I have Bizon changes in test. Thank you for the detailed feedback 🙂
— Joe Cecot (@JoeCecot) April 28, 2014
Also in response, eSports leagues like MLG will be banning the weapon from future competitions until it has been patched accordingly:
UPDATE: We have decided to restrict the Bizon for CoD Pro League until after the announced @InfinityWard weapon rebalance patch.
— Adam Apicella (@MrAdamAp) April 28, 2014
Stay tuned for more details!
SOF Studios is showing off more gameplay action from their in-development tactical, military-inspired shooter, H-Hour: World’s Elite. In the video above, gameplay was captured from various play sessions across the UK, US, and Canada.
As mentioned in the title, what’s being shown here is still a work-in-progress, meaning the final version of the game will likely look and feel different. As we learned earlier, H-Hour is eventually headed to the Unreal Engine 4, which we suspect will yield some very pretty visuals and stronger character animations when it launches on the PC and PS4.
Currently, the studio is in the midst of acquiring backers to push production forward. Creative director David Sears says that they’re out to “prove that there is interest in the game, that the budget is valid, and that not only are [they] bringing back a classic gameplay style but innovating as well.”
In Destiny‘s brave new world, Guardians won’t quite be able to trade with each other on launch, though trading amongst your own characters will be a possibility, as we learned earlier.
According to developer Bungie, trading between players will eventually happen, but at a later date, once the studio has really figured out Destiny’s economy and security measures within the consoles.
“We’re really excited about doing a player economy,” investment lead Tyson Green told Destructoid. “This is going to be a game that the community really drives. But for launch we’re going to be restricting it to trading items between your own characters. We have a lot to learn about the way the economy works, and also the security situation both for our own systems and platforms. We’re excited about opening up player to player trade as soon as we can, but we’re actually going to keep it to character-to-character trade at launch.”
Players will be able to take their gear to Destiny’s social hub, The Tower, in between missions where they can show off or trade their hard-earned weapons and equipment. Nine inventory slots will be made available to each Guardian, including three weapons slots; one for Primaries, Secondaries, and Heavy Weapons, in addition to Focus, grenades, and armor.
You can check out some of the neat armor and weapon combinations in the most recent gameplay trailer showing off 7 minutes of “The Devils’ Lairl” co-operative Strike mission.
Destiny drops on September 9 with a beta this Summer.
New personalization packs are coming to Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 tomorrow, April 29.
The micro-DLC will be making it’s way to Xbox Live members first, as usual, coming to PlayStation Network and PC users at a later date. You can pick up each for $1.99 USD in Black Ops 2’s in-game market place.
Here are the details, courtesy of One of Swords.
Paladin Personalization Pack: You’ll look particularly regal when you win the Game of Drones.
UK Punk Personalization Pack: Inspired by the metal-studded 1970’s UK punk rock scene.
Afterlife Personalization Pack: Harness the spirit of Alcatraz inspired by BOII’s Mob of the Dead.
Comics Personalization Pack: POW! BAM!!! PEW PEW PEW…
Bungie Head of Community Eric “Urk” Osborne has responded to Joystiq’s remarks, explaining that Destiny’s competitive multiplayer will not be capped at 3 vs. 3 combat. He also talked about Raids, a 6-player activity that will always be in parties compromised of friends.
“There are several modes featuring more players that we’ve already talked about. Raids are a six player activity that will always be in parties comprised of your friends. Competitive multiplayer is not capped at 3v3.”
Throughout today’s media blowout on Bungie’s upcoming shared-world shooter, Destiny, we learned a lot about co-operative Strike missions and how combative engagements play out when fighting alongside your Fireteam. But what about competitive multiplayer?
By the sounds of it, we’re going to have to wait until this year’s E3 to learn more about it, but Joystiq was able to pick up a small bit of interesting information.
According to what Bungie COO Pete Parsons told them, every mode in Destiny is played in Fireteams of three Guardians, including adversarial multiplayer. “Every mode is played with groups of threes, incidentally – even adversarial multiplayer – as Bungie feels it offers the best balance for the three available classes,” writes Richard Mitchell.
Looking deeper into it, it’s not clear if that means PvP combat will be limited to six players total (3 vs. 3), or if PvP combat will be made up of multiple teams of three. Either way, some might see it as an unexpected turn from developers who pioneered the competitive multiplayer experience on consoles with iconic games like Halo. To this day, most of Halo’s core multiplayer modes are made up of 4 vs. 4 team battles or 8 vs. 8 big team battles. Meanwhile, 6 vs. 6 is standard in games like Call of Duty, while Battlefield even boasts 32 vs. 32 player combat. But, as only Bungie knows, whatever they have planned might very well be what’s best for a game like Destiny.
We’ll have to sit tight until E3 to learn more. Meanwhile, check out today’s gameplay reveal of “The Devils’ Lair” Strike mission.
What are your thoughts? Would smaller team battles make more sense for a class-based game like Destiny?
As was demonstrated earlier this morning in a fresh new Destiny gameplay trailer, fans will be able to strike together in Fireteams of three to embark on deadly missions throughout Destiny’s world.
In a new video posted on the official PlayStation YouTube channel, Bungie explains that co-op Strikes task three Guardians, you and two of your most trusted pals, to face wave after wave of enemies, culminating in an epic boss battle. The rewards are plenty, should you and your Fireteam succeed.
For fans of the more competitive side of multiplayer, Bungie community manager David “DeeJ” Dague also announced that Destiny’s PvP will be playable at this year’s E3. As for the Beta this Summer, Head of Community Eric “Urk” Osborne says Bungie will be offering a “huge slice of content” for all players to get their hands on, though the studio was still unable to provide an exact launch date.
We do know that Destiny hits next-gen and current-gen platforms on September 9. Be sure to check out the latest gameplay details on Destiny right here.
Bungie community manager Eric “Urk” Osborne spills buckets of Destiny gameplay details in a brand new interview with PlayStation Access.
He goes into details about competitive multiplayer, player customization, and character management, among many other things.
According to Osborne, players will be able to customize how their character is presented to others through Destiny’s companion app. He imagines that, once you start digging into the app’s features, “people are going to be pretty surprised by what [Bungie is] able to pull off on mobile and desktop.”
While competitive multiplayer will be a major element in Destiny, it sounds like the studio is focusing efforts on making the experience “super fun” and something that shooter fans will want to play “long term”, rather than attempting to turn it into an eSport. PvP activities will also be tweaked to only allow players to bring a limited number of inventory items into combat, namely ammo, which will have to be found on the map.
Osborne touched on player investment between different character slots, mentioning that “there will be elements that are shared and some that are distinct”. Bungie wants players to feel free to swap characters if they prefer one type of Guardian for PvE adventures and one for PvP combat. He hints that there much more to come on this and other details at this year’s E3.
The interview itself offers a few moments of brand new gameplay so definitely check it out in the featured section above.
Earlier today, we learned that players jumping between console generations while playing Destiny will be able to carry their saves with them. Get more details here.
If you missed it, you can catch Destiny’s latest gameplay trailer right here and some stunning new screens here.
Future Destiny players seeking the hottest ride will have to pre-order through video game retailer GameStop.
The upgraded Red Sparrow, spotted earlier on this poster, boasts better acceleration and a higher top speed, according to the GameStop commercial. It will be offered as an exclusive day-one, in-game bonus item to those who pre-order through the retailer, which we assume extends to Canadian EB Games customers as well.
You can see it in action in the new Destiny gameplay clip above.
Of course, pre-orderers will also have access to Destiny’s beta on the platform of their choosing later this Summer. Destiny launches September 9.
Along with an assortment of brand new Destiny gameplay and info comes a batch of fresh in-game screens that are sure to satisfy your eyes.
We’ve got a handful of them below but will add more as we go. Check them out and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Update: We’ve added a whole bunch more, rounding off to 40 new screens in total.
Destiny hits next-gen and current-gen consoles on September 9 with a beta this Summer.
Those who’ll be jumping aboard the new console generation after the launch of Bungie’s shared-world shooter, Destiny, can take comfort in knowing they’ll be able to take all their hard work with them.
During a recent press event, investment lead Tyson Green explained that Destiny players will be able to share their saves from previous-gen hardware to next-gen hardware. That means Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners can upgrade to Xbox One or PlayStation 4 without worries.
“We’re interested in making sure that last gen character can move to next gen,” he said. “A lot of people are going to buy Destiny on PS3 or Xbox 360 and then get a PS4 for Christmas. Don’t tell me I wasted those last 100 hours there. So we’re really interested in supporting that. Our longer-term platform plans, I couldn’t speak to right now. But we don’t want to lock people in.”
Though it likely won’t be the case, it’s not clear if saves can be shared across console families.
“We don’t have any plans to announce there right now. Traditionally that’s been restricted by the platform [holders] themselves. We’ll just have to wait and see where they go with that.”
Do you plan to upgrade your console after Destiny’s launch this September 9?
Check out the brand new gameplay trailer that recently hit.
Thanks, Polygon.
Yesterday’s teases come full circle in a fresh new PlayStation 4 gameplay video from Bungie showing off their upcoming shared-world shooter, Destiny.
It offers a brand new look at some of the action you’ll face in Destiny as this Fireteam of three venture off on a mission to ‘infiltrate the Devils’ lair’. It highlights some of the new gameplay mechanics, as well as some of the Guardian classes’ special abilities.
Check it out above and tell us what you think in the comments.
Face your Destiny on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, and PS3 on September 9.
Correction: Release date is June 24.
At last, Plants and Zombies will have the chance to go at it on the PC this June.
June 24 marks the arrival of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, a competitive third-person shooter themed around PopCaps insanely popular tower defense game, Plants vs. Zombies, on the PC.
If offers 12 vs. 12 player matches in modes like Team Vanquish, and the Battlefield-inspired Gardens and Graveyards. The more co-operative minded can have at it in Garden Warfare’s Garden Ops modes. The PC version will also ship with all of the content included in the Garden Variety and Zomboss Down add-ons, including the new 8 vs. 8 Gnome Bomb game mode.
“We’ve had an amazing response from players since launching the Xbox platforms, and can’t wait for PC players to join the party this summer,” said producer Brian Lindley in a press release. “The PC version has all the great content that we have put out since launch like Garden Variety and Zomboss Down for players to enjoy from the start.”
You can pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edtion on Origin for instant access to two Booster Packs, in-game coins and an exclusive character customization pack.
A brand new screen for Massive Entertainment’s upcoming open-world shooter, The Division, surfaces, this time offering a look at something new.
Departing from some of the more mundane teases, this new screen shows off The Division’s female character model fully equipped and ready for action. You can see she’s wielding a pretty badass sniper rifle that shares a very similar design to the real life SRS .388 Sniper Rifle. She’s also wearing some sort of breathing mask to keep those lethal gasses out of her system, though we think it’s just ’cause the guy in front of her just ate something bad. But, hey. You got to take what you can get to survive in The Division’s post-apocalyptic world.
Check it out:
Stay tuned for more on The Division.
