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Despite most of the footage we’ve seen so far of Battlefield 3 adheres to the single-player campaign, a lot of people are wondering how long it’ll actually be; not that it really matters since when it comes to the Battlefield series, multiplayer is what it’s all about. However, DICE adding a campaign for a title that was born online have risen some concerns of whether this will affect the ...read more
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The New York Times reports that the Spanish police have picked up three suspects in connection with the PSN hack that brought the network down over the last month and a half. The arrests include one man in the city of Gijón who allegedly had a computer in his house that was used to attack PSN. The same computer was reportedly involved in attacks on Spanish banks and other entities. The other ...read more
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Earlier today, Codemasters’ Community Relations Director Satine made an announcement on their forum to report the following breaches. Codemasters.com website Access to the Codemasters corporate website and sub-domains. DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page Access to the DiRT 3 VIP code redemption page. The Codemasters EStore We believe the following have been compromised: Customer names ...read more
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Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has said the developer isn’t concerned with trying to make the single-player campaign any particular length.“Modern Warfare 3 is big,” Bowling told Gamefront in an interview embedded below. “It has that epic single player campaign and it’s all about taking players places they’ve never been before. “… Our philosophy on the campaign has always ...read more
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Earlier tonight a hacker named 'contra' managed to get into the Epic Games servers and deface everything they could find. While they were in the server they managed to do a full dump of all online structure, databases, and most importantly Gears of War 3. As of June 9th nothing has been released, other then a video showing off the menu's and a bit of campaign. This is a very low blow towards a ...read more
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Activision exec sees request to play Battlefield 3 declined by rival The most respected journalist at Future's consumer site CVG has reported of a quite remarkable shun on the competitive floors of this year's E3. The site has been told by a "senior informant" that the personal assistant of Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was seen at the EA stand requesting that her boss be given an allocated slot ...read more
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Jared Gerritzen, lead designer on Zombie Studios’ upcoming free-to-play shooter Blacklight: Retribution, has called Activision a bunch of jerks for introducing premium service Call of Duty Elite.“I don’t agree with it,” Gerritzen told Gamasutra. “Right now, if they could, they’d charge 60 bucks, then 20 bucks a month for a map pack – or even just one map – and then $9 to upload ...read more
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Sony has announced a fairly neat sounding application for the PS Vita's beefy social networking features -- it's a "social-action-RPG" called Vita, which sees players create their own hero and lair, and siege the lairs of their friends (and rivals!) The top-down, Diablo-style lootfest will also have a PS3 version, which allows players to transfer (transfarr?) their saves between the two versions ...read more
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Before Kaz Hirai or any other Sony officials announced the actual price of the recently renamed PlayStation Vita, the company's PR wing tipped us off to the price and release date: PlayStation Vita will launch worldwide "by the end of 2011," and will arrive in two models starting at $249. SCE detailed the two separate PSV models as a 3G/Wi-Fi version running $299/€299/¥29,980, and a Wi-Fi-only ...read more
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... and that announcement was met with an audible groan in the crowd during Sony's E3 keynote. The NGP PlayStation Vita will feature both Wi-Fi and 3G functionality, with AT&T being named the official wireless carrier of the new handheld. As for pricing, the Wi-Fi model will retail for $249, while the 3G/Wi-Fi model will retail for $299. Hit the jump for the full press release.
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