EA: Medal of Honor before September
With Battlefield: Bad Company 2 just a month off, we figured EA would leave a sizeable gap between that and the release of its other modern war shooter, Medal of Honor. The end of the year sounded about right, but it could now be as early as July this year, according to a recent SEC filing from EA.
The title is pinned for a Q2 fiscal 2011 release, which covers from July to September 2010. Most likely we’ll see it in the latest month, then, but knowing that it isn’t too far off now gets our engine fired up a bit more.
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EA preparing new Epic shooter, Dragon Age, more
A recent SEC filing shows that EA has a few surprises up its sleeve for their fiscal year 2011. The document shows that a to-be-announced “Dragon Age Title” and a co-published “Shooter from Epic” will be out in Q4 (ends March 31, 2011).
The Dragon Age title is on the way to the consoles, PC as well as handhelds, while the Epic game will be released for consoles and PC only.
An unnamed “Action Title” (marked down as “Console Full Game Download”), a “Fighting Title” (Q4) a “Spore Title” (Q4) and two Need For Speed games (one in Q3, other in Q4) were listed as well.
Dead Space 2 and EA’s Epic shooter slated for early 2011
EA’s tentative release schedule for Q4 of ficsal 2011 (or, as us normal people call it, January-March 2011) contains more than a few intriguing entries. You already heard about the new Dragon Age game — but listed just below that is an untitled “Shooter from Epic TBA.” Of course, this can only mean one thing: Gears of Madden 2012 is within spitting distance of becoming a sweet reality. Or, the listing could point to more speculative details about that possible “Bulletstorm” project from Epic’s People Can Fly studio.
Also listed under the Q4 releases is Dead Space 2, which EA had previously promised would drop before next March. The excitement level of the remaining games drops off like the deep end of a pool: The list includes (deep breath) a new Need For Speed, a downloadable action game, a new fighting game (likely EA MMA 2012), a new Hasbro game (more Family Game Night?), and new installments in the Sims and Spore franchises. We’ll let you know once we start uncovering the identities of these unannounced projects.
Dead Space 2 and EA’s Epic shooter slated for early 2011 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Amazon: 360 Platinum Hits are buy 2, get 1 free for a limited time
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Amazon is now offering a special buy two, get one free deal on Xbox 360 Platinum Hits titles. The deal is fairly straightforward: just pop three Platinum Hits games into your cart and the cheapest of the three will be knocked down to the wallet-friendly price of zero dollars. It’s really the perfect excuse to pick up some great games you might have missed, especially considering many of them have sequels out this year — notably Fable II, Halo 3, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, BioShock and Dead Rising. You’d better do it quick though, as the offer is only valid through February 13 and only while supplies last.
[Thanks, Goldenchild]
Amazon: 360 Platinum Hits are buy 2, get 1 free for a limited time originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Square Enix hard at work x5
If you ever want to make it in the games industry as a developer of some sort, then you might want to head for Square Enix and ask for an interview. The probability of getting a job at the japanese powerhouse would probably be far greater than at any other developer given the fact that they recently told Famitsu they have as many as five projects in development, two of which are seeing a 2010 release. That is a bigger number than what president Yoichi Wada said a while back.
Since they’re “unannounced” projects, all we can do is speculate. But rather than us guessing at some Dragon Quest and/or maybe some more Final Fantasy, despite Wada’s concerns, any bets?
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The Best of Big Download: February 1-7
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Apparently there’s some “foot ball” match or something on today, but, ya know, you’re already sitting there in front of your screen — why not check out some of this week’s features and news from Joystiq’s PC sister site Big Download? What’s that? Because you’re a heartless monster? No excuses! We accept doting, loyal readers and heartless monsters alike. As always, features are below and downloads/news are after the break. Get to it!
Exclusive features
- Reviews: We give our final verdict to two BioWare games: Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age Origins: Return to Ostagar.
- Star Trek Online Stories We Want To See: The newly launched MMO has a ton of fictional history that we would love to see expanded in the game.
- The Top 10 PC Gaming News Stories of January 2010: We pick out the top news stories of the past month plus a couple of honorable mentions.
- Sins of a Solar: Diplomacy interview: We chat with Stardock’s Brad Wardell on the upcoming space strategy expansion.
- Boot Disk: Our retro game feature checks out Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
- All You Need to Know: We give you the 411 this week on Battlefield Bad Company 2.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly free PC game feature looks at the rogue-like game Desktop Dungeons.
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The Best of Big Download: February 1-7 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Latest episode of Qore features God of War 3 E3 demo
Wait, you’re telling us you still haven’t played that demo for God of War III which we got our hands on like, eight months ago? What, did you not get one of the download codes that came bundled with District 9 and the God of War Collection? We’re trying not to be too condescending, it’s just … look, we’re already playing the demo for God of War IV. If you don’t make the effort to catch up, then what are we even doing here?
Consider this your last chance: According to a recent Playstation.Blog post, the next episode of Qore will land on the PSN alongside a God of War III demo, which will be available to the program’s subscribers. Why not pick it up, and attempt to close the ever-widening gap between us, dear readers? We miss you.
Latest episode of Qore features God of War 3 E3 demo originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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