Preorders of
Battlefield 3 are "roughly comparable" to those of
Call of Duty: Black Ops, according to analysts from Cowen & Company, reports
GamesIndustry.biz (registration required) (thanks James via
Bf3Blog). This seems a good omen for DICE's military shooter sequel, as Black Ops has sold more than 20 million units worldwide. Cowen & Company currently estimates Battlefield 3 will sell approximately 11 million units.
In the comments for the
Gotham City Impostors cinematic trailer
posted the other day, cutter provided a link to a
an actual gameplay trailer from the upcoming shooter that we missed when it was released last month. The clip shows off some of the game's characters and offers a look at combat. Thanks
Ant.
"Mobile devices are changing very quickly, some people are changing their phones every year. I think it depends on what really happens with these mobile devices, what happens on the Apple Store, how Android works and what kind of store front they have and how popular those apps become,"
says id Software producer Jaspm Kim (Jason Kim). "There are so many different ways that this could go and it's not totally clear to us but we put something out there and I think it's done really well for us."
The Digital Combat Simulator Website now offers a new patch for
DCS: A-10C Warthog, updating the English edition of this combat flight simulator to version 1.1.0.9. The new version includes AI enhancements and improvements to their mission editor, as well as other changes and bug-fixes. The complete change list follows.
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Here's Valve's list of the ten best-selling titles on their
Steam service for the week:
- Sid Meier's Civilization V
- Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
- Terraria
- Dead Island
- GRID
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation Content Pack
- Left 4 Dead 2
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Digital Premium Edition
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
R.I.P.:
Singer Amy Winehouse Dies at Age 27. Some just shrug, but I find this very sad, as she wasted a lot of talent. And as is widely noted, she is other addition to the unfortunate "
27 Club" (thanks nin). Years ago iconoclastic baseball statistician Bill James did a study that showed that the age of 27 was the most likely point for a player to have a standout season compared with the rest of his career, and in a later study found that player's defensive skills began to decline at the age of 27, as well, suggesting this is some sort of peak age. I'm not sure that there's a connection there, but every time the spate of dead 27 year-old musicians comes up, this pops to mind.
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