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A new "Previously on Assassin's Creed' Trailer" paves the way for Assassin's Creed Revelations by outlining the events from previous games that lead up to the new installment in the Assassin's Creed series of stealth/action games. The clip can be viewed if you are stealthy enough to get past the virtual bouncer. Continue here to read the full story.
DICE designer Alan Kertz tweets before and after images showing how they will be scaling back the brightness of the tactical light in Battlefield 3, which will no longer induce third-degree burns after it's fixed. Thanks Destructoid.
Telltale Games gave me Dino Damage is a post alleging that a Jurassic Park-themed jeep was damaged when borrowed by Telltale Games to promote their Jurassic Park game (thanks Gareee). Reddit has a response from Telltale to the accusation that they have not been responsive to the situation.
Deep Silver announces a November 22nd release date for the Bloodbath Arena DLC for Dead Island, Techland's zombie game. Here are some screenshots, and here's word on the pack, which will be free those who preordered the game: 14th November 2011 / Hampshire, UK... Deep Silver today announced the release date of the “Bloodbath Arena” DLC pack for the award winning game Dead Island. The DLC will be available on November 22, 2011 for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.
In the “Bloodbath Arena” DLC four different arenas offer new challenges that can be played alone or in coop mode. It’s a desperate fight for survival where waves after waves of unrelenting zombies attack, one more gruesome than the next! In this DLC characters can loot experience points and items and bring them over to the campaign mode. Players can show off their skills in zombie fighting with the newly implemented leaderboards. The brain wave bomb, a new exclusive weapon, tops this DLC package off.
The DLC package is free for all customers who bought the Pre-order Edition. For the others it will have a price of EUR 9,99 or 800 Microsoft points.
Eagle Dynamics sends along an outline of their upcoming projects in their The Fighter Collection series. Word is: "The below list is a road map of our intentions and not a promise of things to come. As each product nears completion and feature lists are finalized, more details will be provided." Here's word: 1- Combined Arms. This $19.99 add-on will allow A-10C, Black Shark 2, and Flaming Cliffs 3 owner to act as ground force commanders as the mission is running. Users can direct ground units, set fire missions for artillery/multiple rocket launchers, and take the role of a Joint Terminal Air Controller (JTAC). As the JTAC, players will have night vision goggles, IR pointer, laser designator, and Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR). Several other new items are still being considered. Combined Arms will work in both single player and multiplayer missions.
2- Flaming Cliffs 3. This will be a paid-for update to the Flaming Cliffs series and brings it to the same world, mission editor, AI, units, etc. as A-10C and Black Shark 2. We plan to include several upgrades to the aircraft, a resource management system, and several other new features. This will also make Flaming Cliffs online compatible with A-10C and Black Shark 2. Pricing will depend on what new features are included.
3- Nevada map. This will be a $19.99 add-on that will be compatible with A-10C, Black Shark 2, and FC3. Users that purchased the A-10C beta will get this map for free.
4- The first "DCS Flying Legends" aircraft will be released in the first half of 2012.
5- The next US fixed wing jet DCS aircraft is being worked on in parallel.
For Combined Arms and the Nevada map, a single purchase will allow these add-ons to work with A-10C 1.1.1.0, Black Shark 2, and FC3.
Here's GfK Chart-Track's list of the top 20 full-price PC entertainment titles for the week ending November 12th. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim debuts at number one and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 enters the chart at number two, with the other new entry being the PC edition of L.A. Noire at number 10. On the all-platforms chart the top to spots are reversed, as Modern Warfare 3 enters at number one and Skyrim enters at number two.
Notch tweets that Minecraft is gold, marking the completion of the sandbox game that's already been purchased over four million times. Word simply is: "So, yes, Minecraft has gone gold. :D" Here's a Minecraft 1.0 Twitpic.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports hearing from players banned from playing Battlefield 3 and other EA games after being banned from the EA forums. This recalls an incident earlier this year where a player found himself locked out of playing Dragon Age II after being banned for misconduct on the BioWare forums. These bans were later lifted by EA who explained it was an error. Now they tell the tale of a few different similar incidents indicating the same policy is still being enforced. The story has an update showing EA's email response to a user explaining his "account will no longer be accessible in any way, and all property, items, and characters associated currently are or will soon be deleted," and they have reached out to EA for a further explanation. Here's their description of how he earned the ban: Then we heard from James, whose tale is even more extraordinary. He has been permanently banned for using the word “e-peen”. (For those unfamiliar, this is short for “electronic penis”, and tends to be used to suggest someone is egotistically willy-waving.) However, he did not even introduce the word. It was in reply to someone else who’d said it, and responded, “Ah, back to the e-peen talk.” He was originally told this ban would be for 72 hours, but on Saturday received an email informing him that it was now to be a permanent ban from his Origin account, with no further explanation given. It was added that the matter was “now closed”. And, as ever, EA’s live chat and customer support are refusing to help him in any way. He’s also been told that his BF3 characters and levels will be deleted.
Sol Survivor developer Cadenza Interactive announces Retrovirus, a six degrees of freedom shooter that will offer a modern take on the Descent-style indoor flying experience. The game is currently in the pre-alpha stage, and does not yet carry a release date, but they are planning on beginning to start providing media and information releases to help us keep up with what's happening. Here's word on the game: Players will enjoy an action-oriented shooter focused on movement along six axes, in a world designed for indoor flight. Retrovirus will put players in control of an advanced anti-virus program within the game world, putting them up to the task of cleaning a dangerous infection from a single computer which hosts the game’s setting. In addition to a challenging, story-driven single player campaign, Retrovirus will deliver cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes for group play.
Features:
Modernized six degrees of freedom controls, designed for fluidity and stability
Expansive game world built to challenge players with puzzles, combat and exploration
Unique weapon system challenges players to combine weapon effects for damage and defense
Decision-oriented AI that allows enemies to work together to protect objectives--and each other
Customizable skill and weapon load-outs for a variety of play styles in single and multiplayer modes
Campaign cooperative mode: play the campaign with a friend!
Fast-paced competitive multiplayer
The Half-Life 2: Short Stories Website now offers Water, a third-person Source-engine adventure game. There are details about the project on Mod DB along with some media showing it off. Word is: "Water is a third person puzzle solving adventure type of game with an unique look and gameplay. It's a story about a mermaid, and fish men who aren't fish men. A story that brings you into tears and fears. It's about fish people, harp instruments, swimming, and crazy priests." Thanks BlueWolf72.
An interview on Gamasutra chats with Capcom's Yoshinori Ono about Street Fighter X Tekken, the upcoming cross-franchise brawler. They discuss the challenges of melding two different game styles and how they are finding a match between Street Fighters way of being able to cancel moves and Tekken's traditional inability to do so.
What the hell is a sandy bridge, anyway?
- Amazon Kindle Fire on TechReviewSource.com.
- ARCTIC Z1 Monitor Stand on [Phoronix].
- ASUS G53SX Laptop on TechReviewSource.
- ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard on Benchmark Reviews and Legit Reviews.
- ASUS P9X79 PRO Motherboard on AnandTech.
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Motherboard on eTeknix, Overclock3D, and TweakTown.
- ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF Motherboard on Benchmark Reviews.
- Case King anidées AI6 Case on techPowerUp.
- Corsair Dominator GTX8 PC3-19200 Quad Channel 8GB RAM Kit on TweakTown.
- GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD5 Motherboard Preview on Overclock3D.
- GIGABYTE X79 UD7 OC Motherboard Preview on Ninjalane.
- Intel Core i7-3960X CPU on AnandTech, FiringSquad, Hardware Canucks, Legion Hardware, Neoseeker, OCWORKBENCH, Overclock3D, Technic3D (in German), The Tech Report, and TechSpot.
- Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition CPU on Benchmark Reviews, eTeknix, HARDOCP, Hardware Heaven, HCW, HotHardware, Legion Hardware, Overclockers Club, TweakTown, and Vortez.
- Intel Core i7 3960X processor & MSI X79A-GD65 Motherboard on Guru3D.
- Intel DX79SI LGA2011 Motherboard on Benchmark Reviews.
- Intel Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI on The Tech Report.
- Intel Sandy Bridge-E - Core i7-3960X and X79 Chipset on PC Perspective.
- Intel X79 Chipset, Core i7 3960X & DX79SI Motherboard on Bjorn3D.com.
- MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) Motherboard on VORTEZ.
- Ozone Radon 5k Gaming Mouse on PureOC.
- Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable 750GB Hard Drive on circuitREMIX.
I've been watching professional tackle football for a long time, but I have never seen or heard or heard of anything like what happened in the Broncos game yesterday where they won by running the ball 55 times and completing only two passes. I always say I enjoy sports because of the way it presents things you've never seen before, but this was an outcome that I don't think anyone could have ever even imagined.
Oh yeah, happy birthday Hump!
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