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Medal of Honor was a great occasion for Electronic Arts, as a publisher, and developers at Danger Close and DICE that they could deliver a first person shooter that is close to the blockbuster level of Call of Duty but offers a twist on the experience.
The game has all the elements to be good: it is set in modern ... |
28 December 2010
18:31 GMT |
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Since 1979, the research program – Uppsala Conflict Database Program (UCDP), at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, at Uppsala University in Sweden, releases its annual review, and this year's results are quite encouraging: the number of conflicts stopped rising and the number of people killed h... |
28 December 2010
05:09 GMT |
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How close to a real world conflict can a video game come without getting burned? Six Days in Fallujah, which was set to portray the bloody battles for the city in Iraq seemed to set the initial benchmark by being unable to get a publisher early after its official announcement because of the sensibility of the subject... |
23 October 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Medal of Honor is the new first person shooter from developers Danger Close and DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, taking the player to the battlefields of Afghanistan and putting him in the dessert combat boots of a variety of characters that engage the Taliban after the events of September 11, 2001.One of the main... |
22 October 2010
19:11 GMT |
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Medal of Honor is the new big title from Electronic Arts, a reboot of a franchise which once competed with Call of Duty and has ambitions of reclaiming the first person shooter crown from Treyarch, Infinity Ward and Activision.Here are a few observations taken from my first hour with the game:13:00. At least the intr... |
14 October 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Greg Goodrich, the executive producer working on the new Medal of Honor first person shooter, has announced that the multiplayer section of the game will no longer use the Taliban name for the side which confronts United States soldiers, with the “Opposing Force” nation used instead throughout the game.Th... |
5 October 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that its upcoming Medal of Honor first person shooter, set in the real world conflict of Afghanistan, has managed to set a new record for pre orders for the entire franchise, meaning that the launch of the first person shooter it likely to be a success.Medal of Honor is being c... |
4 October 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts, alongside developers DICE and EALA, has announced that the multiplayer component of the Medal of Honor first person shooter will no longer feature the Taliban name, with the enemies of United States and NATO forces now being simply labeled as “Opposing Force”.In a statement post... |
4 October 2010
05:54 GMT |
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An analyst of the video game industry has said that the upcoming Medal of Honor Afghanistan based first person shooter from Electronic Arts needs for pre launch marketing and buzz in order to have a good chance of challenging the Treyarch made and Activision published Call of Duty: Black Ops.Todd Mitchell, who is an ... |
29 September 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that well known former Special Air Service military man Chris Ryan will be creating a novel that will act as a prequel to its shooter Medal of Honor to be released at an unspecified date later in the year.It seems that those who pre order the new shooter from HMV will be gettin... |
30 August 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Wikileaks has been propelled to a new level of ‘stardom’ after the leak of some 92,000 documents from the US military concerning the Afghanistan war. The Pentagon hasn’t taken it lightly and has condemned the site for doing so. However, the response has been moderate, perhaps because the Pentagon kn... |
6 August 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to launch the reborn Medal of Honor on October 12, almost one full month before the release of the newly unveiled Modern Warfare: Black Ops.The fresh shooter in the long running series, which is being worked on by both EA LA and DICE, is set to take place in Afghanistan and... |
6 May 2010
06:05 GMT |
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We already know that the new Medal of Honor game, which Electronic Arts aims to deliver before the end of the year, will be set against the background of the current Afghanistan war and that the character who graces the cover is based on a real life person. With such a grounding in reality, the title is in a unique p... |
24 February 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Strategy First Inc. is announcing that it has entered into an agreement with Valve, the company that maintains the Steam digital distribution service, to offer the title 9th Company: The Roots of Terror for download. All gamers who are interested in a tough strategy title dealing with events in the Soviet occupation ... |
8 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it is bringing back its long running Medal of Honor first person shooter franchise in 2010 and that it is also moving it out of the World War II time frame for the first time. The new videogame, which seems only to be named Medal of Honor, with no subtitle, will be set in modern day... |
3 December 2009
05:22 GMT |
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At this point, the only thing Afghanistan is known for is the fact that it's the home of the Talibans and that the war there is becoming increasingly difficult for the Coalition forces. Still, there is more to the country than meets the eye, at least as far as historical sites go. Since war broke out in 2002, va... |
9 March 2009
02:46 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense (DOD) is advocating the creation of a new computer software that would replace the familiar faces of parents in the eyes of children left at home while they are serving their country. Although the department admits that such a substitution is not exactly the best option for everyone invol... |
19 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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As I was telling you last week, Diana's youngest son and royal British troublemaker in chief prince Harry is not a very happy camper at the moment, having been forced to cut his ultra-secret mission in Afghanistan short and return home after ten weeks spent fighting the Taliban on the front line. In fact, the pr... |
3 March 2008
05:44 GMT |
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I think the very British Prince Harry must be pretty pissed at the international media right now - and as far as I'm concerned, rightfully so. No, this time it's not some scandalous picture controversy involving Harry, a lot of booze and late night binge drinking - it's something a lot more serious. It... |
29 February 2008
10:26 GMT |
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The Taleban (also known as Taliban), the nationalist Afghanistan movement, threatened today to attack mobile networks and mobile companies offices across the country, unless the carriers agree to switch off their signals during night-time. Taleban militants say that foreign troops, including the US one, are us... |
25 February 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The history of humankind has seen many audacious acts and even more that can be simply named with one word: manslaughter. It was often endorsed by the ruling body and because of that it was all of a sudden a good thing to behead or stone the alleged culprit to death. That being said, political violence, as it is the ... |
23 January 2008
16:31 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, I was telling you about a Gwen Stefani concert in Kuala Lumpur for which the usually provocative diva was forced to cover herself up a little more than usual (which, given who we were talking about, actually meant something). And now it would seem that another, even more provocative, hip-shaki... |
23 November 2007
06:59 GMT |
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