EA tweets they have dropped the banhammer on hundreds of cheaters in
Battlefield 3, DICE's military shooter sequel (thanks
BF3Blog via
GameSpy). Here's word:
This week we’ve banned hundreds of offending accounts and have stats-wiped accounts for exploiting (such as boosting)... (2 of More)
A few links for those enjoying
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda's RPG sequel being played by over a quarter-million concurrent players on
Steam. We have
Skyrim Intro & Gameplay Running on Multiple Monitors, some
Performance Benchmarks to see if your rig is up to the game (thanks Acleacius), and, just for fun:
Watch A Horse Ride A Dragon In Skyrim (thanks
Ant).
Explanation of 4.3 Balance Changes, Part Two has more on what to expect from the next patch for
World of Warcraft (if you missed it,
here's part one). This article goes into class and buff changes in Blizzard's MMORPG, offering this overview of their approach to balance tweaking: "In particular, we try to be really conservative when buffing spec B of a class upwards to compete with spec A of the same class. We have gotten it wrong before, and forced a large number of players to swap specs. Ideally we want you to play the spec you enjoy the most and not the one that does the highest DPS, but asking you to continually swap specs to achieve that highest DPS is an unreasonable thing for us to ask."
The Digital Combat Simulator Website now offers a new patch for
DCS: A-10C Warthog to update the combat flight simulation to version 1.1.1.0. The extensive change list outlines new features, helicopter AI improvements, avionics changes, and more. The download is mirrored on
AtomicGamer and
The Patches Scrolls.
Gamer's Hell has the Star 2011 trailer from
Lineage Eternal: Twilight Resistance, the
newly revealed next installment in NCsoft's Lineage MMORPG series. The clip includes gameplay footage.
Cliffski's Blog offers a
new trailer with alpha footage of
Gratuitous Tank Battles, Positech's upcoming armored combat strategy game. Word is: "The video is just showing some battles, not the level editor or the unit editor, or any online stuff (still most of that to do…) so its only a snapshot of the traditional tower-defense side of the game, albeit playing as attacker and defender, and with a tad more detail and explodyness than most TD games I hope :)."
This trailer shows off gameplay from
Dustforce - Summit, an acrobatic platformer due early next year for Windows and OS X.
Here's another trailer featuring a new music track from the game.
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