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The Halo-bit: There and Back Again

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The only people who would say Reach is the best game in the Halo series are those who never played any of the others. It’s a sad realization when you come to it, like getting stuck with a plasma grenade. But the future looks promising with a new game on the horizon and a somewhat new studio at the helm. Let’s look to our Halo past in hopes that it determines a better future. Go Back Again: The Wrongs of Reach Maps – If there is one function of the [...]

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Killzone 3 Multiplayer Going Free-to-Play

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Free-to-play has become a viable strategy for several games in the past year such as Team Fortress 2 and DC Universe Online, and now Sony and Guerilla Games will gift gamers the multiplayer portion of the year-old FPS in all of its glory up to level 10. Beginning next week, players will be able to download a standalone version of Killzone 3’s multiplayer, which will include all game modes and maps, including DLC from PSN. Sony announced the shift on The Playstation Blogcast Thursday, which will cap players once they [...]

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The Darkness 2 Demo Coming Soon

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If you are a fan of the comics or the first game you are probably aware of the fact that The Darkness II demo is coming soon! The Darkness II is the upcoming sequel to 2007′s The Darkness. Developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K Games. Originally the game was scheduled to be released on July 10 2011 they postponed the release date to October 4th, after we got closer and closer to October 4th it became clear this was not going to be the official release date of [...]

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GoldenEye 007 Reloaded Multiplayer Shown Off

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Activision has dropped their latest little trailer promoting GoldenEye Reloaded’s famed split screen multplayer, of course the game also supports up to 16 players when playing online in non-split screen mode. This latest installment of GoldenEye Reloaded will finally bring back the classic N64 console shooter which was adored by so many and was already released revamped for the Nintendo Wii last year. This new version will be specifically for the PS3 and Xbox 360, adding higher definition graphics and supposedly also better frame rates then prior versions. Of course [...]

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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Detailed with Video

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Today one of the devs over at Bioware sat down for a video interview with EA’s Bioware Pulse TV and their forcefully enthusiastic presenter to talk about and detail the new multiplayer abilities of the upcoming Mass Effect 3. Some of these “abilities” include a join in progress co-op mode and the ability to play all the different characters, classes and races that you’ve never been able to in past Mass Effect titles. They also detail a little about how the multiplayer ties into and influences the single player campaign [...]

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Ask A-Rod: How do I choose between Xbox Live and PSN?

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This week’s Ask A-Rod question comes from Revolution via Operation Reality.

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Footage

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The Call of Duty XP held today in LA was the venue for the official release for the new Modern Warfare Multiplayer Footage trailer. The almost 4 min long trailer shows a lot of actual multiplayer gameplay footage as well as some new features like deployable turrets and the anti personnel bounding mine.

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Ghost Recon Future Soldier Latest GC Multiplayer Sneak Peek

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In this latest Ghost Recon Future soldier trailer out of Gamescom 2011, Creative Director Tommy Jacob gives a little low down on the basics of the game’s multiplayer component, focusing on shooting and the cover system, classes, intel and team play dynamics. If you’re interested you can check out the video below.

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Can BF3 Frostbite2 Really Simulate Earthquakes in Multiplayer ?

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Battlefield 3 developer DICE says they’re “looking into it”. After seeing all those fancy BF3 trailer videos featuring earthquakes knocking over buildings and ripping rifts through the asphalt and roads, I think it’s safe to say everyone’s been thinking the same thing, how cool would it be if that could actually happen in real time in multiplayer with your fellow brothers in arms experiencing it with you? While I’m not aware of any “earthquake simulator” games out there yet, although I’m sure the guys who brought us street cleaning simulator [...]

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Call of Juarez: The Cartel – Multiplayer Modes Trailer

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Ubisoft has just released a new multiplayer trailer for the upcoming Call of Juarez: The Cartel. The trailer details some of the action that awaits players in the game’s various multiplayer modes such as robbery crew, team deathmatch, star witness and cartel deal. The game is due out on PC and console (PS3 and Xbox 360) this week, July 19 2011. Check it out below.

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EVE Online: “EVE is Real”

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CCP Games kicked off a new promotion campagin for EVE Online called “EVE is Real” with a brand new video that shows an EVE player talking about an ambush against him and his corporation. And that is just the beginning because they are also launching a new site next week that is meant to chronicle the history of the EVE Online universe. The site is supposed to log images, videos, players stories even Tweets and will consist of 5 main categories, War, Exploration, Corp Recruiting, EVE is Real and Freestyle. [...]

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COD Black Ops multiplayer network issues resolved

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Treyarch have apparently swiftly resolved the network issues that had been causing multiplayer issues for Call of Duty: Black Ops players over the past day. The Block Ops server status page is back at Defcon 5, where as for several hours earlier it was listed at Defcon 2 with many players complaining and experiencing issues connecting to servers on the network. Treyarch claimed it was “outside of our control” as game design director David Vonderhaar asked the angry mob with pitchforks and torches for calm via his twitter. We’re not [...]

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Tribes Ascend: New Free-to-Play Multiplayer trailer

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The classic cult multiplayer shooter Tribes is finally back and they’ve decided to enter the FREE gaming sphere with this latest installment. Naturally they’re going to try and make some money like all free-to-play and will do so by offering players the ability to purchase differing loadouts for their characters, to customize armour types, movement speeds, weapon choices, explosives, and pack types. Developer Hi-Rez are planning on releasing such new varieties of loadouts on a regular basis in order to attempt generate a revenue stream of some sort. So without [...]

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Dungeon Siege III – New Co-op Multiplayer Trailer

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Square Enix has just released a brand new Dungeon Siege III (due out June 17th 2011 in Europe) multiplayer co-op trailer showing off some new in game footage. The footage shows of some basic new features such as the drop-in / drop-out co-op mode which works with up to four players and generally gives some tips tricks and advice concerning the back story and what the main story-line’s characters can expect.

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Shogun 2 Total War – Multiplayer Tutorials

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Creative Assembly the developers of the Total War series have just released the second part of their Shogun 2 multiplayer tutorial videos. We’ve included both parts below so if you’re a new player to the Total War series, you might be interested in checking them out. We warn you though, the presenter is a tad on the quirky side but overall is pretty clear and concise.

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