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Kicking off last year with the stellar Battlefield: Bad Company 2, EA closed it out by dropping the Vietnam expansion. Building upon already incredibly strong shooter mechanics, Vietnam reinforces the formula with another fantastic set of maps brought to life with the sights and sounds definitive of the era.
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When Electronic Arts released a Limited Edition of Medal of Honor last year, the box included a multiplayer beta invite for the upcoming Battlefield 3. While technically unannounced at the time, the publisher plans to lift the lid on the third game in the Battlefield series during a March 1st event at this year’s Game Developers Conference.
Besides Battlefield 3, the entire all of EA Partners’ 2011 releases will be on hand at the show including Spicy Horse’s Alice: Madness Returns, Easy Studios’ Battlefield Play4Free, Crytek’s Crysis 2, 38 Studios’ Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning and Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned.
Wesley Snipes has had a rough couple of years recently. After a string of theatrical (and direct-to-video) flops, the action star was arrested for failure to pay his taxes and is currently serving time in a federal prison.
But that hasn’t stopped him from announcing his next project, an iPhone/iPad game titled Julius Styles: The International that promises to combine action and puzzle-solving. According to Snipes, “This project was inspired by my desire to bring my Art of War, Murder at 1600 and Passenger 57 characters into the game world. Julius Styles will offer something for both the mind game strategist and the kick-ass special ops warrior lover.”
Developed by Lapland Studios, the game will be added to the App Store in June, with plans to bring it to the Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and the Android App Store after that. The actor even plans to star in a movie featuring the Julius Styles character.
But it’ll likely be a long wait before the movie hits theaters as Snipes is scheduled to remain in prison until July 19, 2013.
Today’s Daily Scoop brings you Amazon’s Deal of the Day: Bejeweled 3 by PopCap Games for the PC. It’s just $12.99 today down from $19.99. Amazon also wants you to know about “Get Fit, Have Fun, Save,” another one of their sneaky attempts to get you to exercise. Dude. Amazon. We’re geeks. Get over it already.
No t-shirt deals today…that is, unless you want to check out the massive clearance sale over at Thinkgeek. That Aperture Laboratories Work Shirt is on sale (up to 16% off) and so is the Science To Do Portal Babydoll (up to 26% off). I’ll even share a secret with you – but only if you like coupons. That is all I have to teach you today. Go forth into the world. And if you live where I do, be sure to wear your snow boots, because it’s on.
State and local statutory regulations prohibit us from revealing the entire nature of the experiment you are participating in today, but be informed that it may involve physics, psychology, thermodynamics, pharmacology, and non-Euclidean geometry. And cake. For the party. At the end. When you’re done. Sometimes cake is my favorite part of science. When asking your children if they would like to attend the Aperture Science Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, remind them that science = cake.
The anonymous Internet detective that ran superannuation may have left his website in the past, but several recent Twitter updates prove his sleuthing skills are still top notch.
He has discovered that Bungie has registered several new copyrights with the US Copyright Office and several domain names to go with them. These copyrights are likely connected to their New Universe and most of them relate to religious mythology in some way. The possible titles/related words include:
Dead Orbit
New Monarchy
Osiris
Seven Seraphs
Bungie signed a ten-year agreement with Activision last year to publish games set in their New Universe. Here’s hoping we learn more about Dead Orbit/Seven Seraphs/New Monarchy/Osiris or whatever it might be called soon.
Lost In Shadow was released last week by Hudson Entertainment to a lousy critical reception. My initial reaction was surprise – I’d played a few hours of the game and so far, I really loved it. But as I continued on, I started to see many of the problems mentioned by other reviewers, and even found a few reasons of my own to be frustrated by the unnecessarily prolonged experience that is Lost In Shadow.
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Who says video games aren’t healthy? Today’s Daily Scoop highlights Amazon’s latest gaming-related Deal of the Day and today’s shirt.w00t!
Amazon’s video games Deal of the Day is EA Sports Active 2 for the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It’s on sale today for $48.99 (from an original price of $99.95), which is more than 50% off. They’ve also got EA Sports Active: NFL Training Camp for the Wii – same deal, $48.99 from an original price of $99.95. Not bad!
Even better is today’s shirt.w00t.com shirt – it’s called “Regius Fructus,” and asks the question: what if Princess Peach was literally a fruit? Fruit sex jokes abound in the description.
“Wait, you told me the princess was so thankful that you, y’know, consummated.
Oh god. Oh god, what have you two done? That Whole Foods is never going to let us shop there again!”
Game Informer’s February 2011 issue keeps the hits coming as the magazine has konfirmed (via Mortal Kombat Online) that Goro and Jade will be appearing in this April’s Mortal Kombat reboot.
Goro is the four-armed giant you see to your left. He also served as the sub-boss of the original Mortal Kombat arcade game and has become a fan favorite over the years thanks to his rivalry with Johnny Cage. According to Mortal Kombat kreator Ed Book, Goro’s role in the upcoming game will once again be as a boss. And as of right now, it doesn’t sound like he’ll be a playable character.
On the other hand, we have Jade (the green counterpart to Kitana and Mileena), who was also revealed by Game Informer. The magazine depicts her wielding her boomerang weapon and looking awesome doing it in a costume that looks like a mashup of her Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat: Deception threads.
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