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Medal of Honor: Warfighter Gets New Gameplay Video

Electronic Arts chose to debut a brand new gameplay video for its upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter title during the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday night and now the commercial has made its way online, showing off some new footage from the future shooter. Medal of Honor: Warfighter is set to deliver a mor...

21 May 2012
12:31 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Gets First Gameplay Video

Electronic Arts and developer Danger Close have just unveiled the first gameplay video for the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter shooter, showing off the new game and its top notch graphics. The Medal of Honor series may have been rebooted in 2010 but, seeing as how it wasn’t that well received, EA hopes to ...

13 April 2012
13:31 GMT

New Medal of Honor: Warfighter Screenshots Available

Electronic Arts and developer Danger Close have just released a new series of screenshots from their upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter game, this time showing off some of the environments that will be visited by players throughout its campaign. The Medal of Honor reboot that appeared back in 2010 may have impresse...

11 April 2012
02:32 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Delivers Its Own Visual Style with Frostbite 2

Danger Close, the studio behind the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter title, has confirmed that the new shooter, despite having the same Frostbite 2 engine as last year’s Battlefield 3, still has its own visual style. Frostbite 2 amazed lots of shooter fans last year when DICE delivered Battlefield 3, a stun...

20 March 2012
05:34 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Developer Doesn’t Target Call of Duty

Danger Close, the studio owned by Electronic Arts in charge of the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter, has revealed that it doesn’t want to compare its new title with the future Call of Duty game, saying that the team is focused just on what it’s doing, not on the competition. Electronic Arts has been t...

19 March 2012
13:21 GMT

Authenticity in Single and Multiplayer Is Crucial for Medal of Honor: Warfighter

The Medal of Honor series has always lived in the shadow of the more popular Call of Duty franchise from Activision but with Warfighter, which will be launched during the fall of this year, the development team at Danger Close wants to impress the first-person shooter fan base with its focus on an authentic experienc...

16 March 2012
08:33 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Shows Respect Towards Tier One Operators

Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be respectful towards Tier One Operators, the shadowy military men whose existences it dramatizes, and the entire development team working at developer Danger Close will try and make sure that it never tackles issues that are sensitive to them. When asked about the mission which resul...

12 March 2012
08:13 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Gets Release Date, Video, and Screenshots

After confirming that Medal of Honor: Warfighter is the next installment in its military first person shooter series, Electronic Arts and developer Danger Close have now posted a gameplay video, as well as a batch of screenshots for the game, alongside an actual release date. The 2010 reboot of the Medal of Honor fr...

7 March 2012
12:41 GMT

Variety Will Be Crucial to Medal of Honor: Warfighter

The development team at Danger Close and publisher Electronic Arts have offered some more information on the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the first-person shooter that the two companies plan to launch during the fall of this year. The developers say that they plan to offer missions spanning the entire world ...

7 March 2012
10:41 GMT

Medal of Honor’s Taliban Controversy Almost Led to Producer’s Resignation

After announcing Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the sequel to 2010’s Medal of Honor reboot, producer Greg Goodrich has talked about the controversy regarding the mention of Talibans in the previous game’s multiplayer mode. Medal of Honor wanted to realistically portray missions of select Tier 1 Operations, ...

1 March 2012
19:31 GMT

Medal of Honor: Warfighter Won’t Have Osama Assassination Mission

Electronic Arts has confirmed that its upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter first person shooter won’t have a mission where its Tier 1 Operators assassinate terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, as it wouldn’t be respectful to the actual soldiers who took part in the real life operation. 2010’s Medal of...

1 March 2012
03:13 GMT

First Medal of Honor: Warfighter Details Now Available

The first details about the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter first person shooter have just appeared, including info about its technical specs, its story, as well as the multiplayer mode. The Medal of Honor reboot that appeared back in 2010 impressed through its gritty realism but, sadly, didn’t become that...

28 February 2012
07:01 GMT

EA Confirms Medal of Honor: Warfighter Coming from Danger Close

After quite a lot of teasing, Electronic Arts has finally confirmed the next installment in its Medal of Honor series, in the form of Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which is being developed by Danger Close studios.The Medal of Honor series impressed quite a lot of shooter fans many years ago and was completely rebooted ...

24 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Research: Shooters Can Correct Impaired Vision

A research team from the Canadian McMaster University has found that players shooter video games can help some patients to correct impaired vision. The team has worked with six patients aged between 19 and 31, all affected by a rare eye problem, to play the first-person shooter Medal of Honor, created by EALA aka Da...

20 February 2012
20:51 GMT

New Medal of Honor Game to Be Unveiled on March 6

A new Medal of Honor game is set to be unveiled next month, as Electronic Arts has just sent out invitations to media members, asking them to save the date of March 6. The Medal of Honor series has been around for quite some time, yet it failed to reach the popularity of Activision’s Call of Duty series. The f...

7 February 2012
12:31 GMT

Analyst: Call of Duty and GTA V Will Be One Third of Game Sales for 2012

A report from Baird Equity Research, a financial analysis firm based in the United States, states that two titles, the upcoming Call of Duty installment and the already confirmed Grand Theft Auto V, will account for one third of overall games sales for the coming fiscal year. When it comes to actual copies moved to ...

24 January 2012
16:41 GMT

New Need for Speed and Medal of Honor Games Leaked By Retailer

UK retailer GAME has made a pretty big mistake yesterday, when one of its social media representatives posted on Twitter details about two unannounced games from Electronic Arts, in the form of a new Need for Speed racing game and a new Medal of Honor shooter. EA is always working on new games, most of them sequels ...

13 January 2012
15:31 GMT

New Medal of Honor Game Hinted At by Battlefield 3 Leaflet

Even if it's intended to be formally released tomorrow, October 25, quite a few Battlefield 3 copies have found their way into the hands of gamers, and many have noticed a rather interesting leaflet included in the retail package, which seemingly hints at a new Medal of Honor game.Battlefield 3 is shaping up to ...

24 October 2011
12:41 GMT

EA Says Medal of Honor and Battlefield Will Remain Separate Brands

Electronic Arts has talked a lot about how it plans to take back the so called first person shooter crown from Call of Duty, the franchise created by Activision Blizzard, using the dual punches of the Medal of Honor and the Battlefield series.But at the Communacopia Conference, organized by Goldman Sachs, Eric Brown,...

21 September 2011
17:21 GMT

EALA Is Hiring for New Frostbite 2 Based Game

Video game publisher Electronic Arts is preparing to announce a new third-person shooter game, with the development process requiring the hiring of a senior multiplayer designer and a cinematics focused director. The EA Los Angeles studio has not said that the project and the job openings are linked, but the annou...

24 March 2011
14:31 GMT

Despite Poor Reviews Homefront Will Sell 2 Million Copies

The THQ-published and Kaos Studio-made Homefront first-person shooter has just been released and has received a fairly poor reception from critics and gamers, but at least one industry analyst believes that the game might still sell pretty well, despite a disappointing Metacritic average score. Doug Creutz, who is...

16 March 2011
11:40 GMT

Killzone 3 Diary – In and Out of Control

One of the capital sins of modern video games, and first-person shooters that aim for blockbuster status are some of the worst offenders, is that they take control away from the gamer and then proceed to have the main characters do something incredible, leading to questions like: Shouldn't I be the one to get th...

1 March 2011
18:21 GMT

Distance Is the Only Way for Bodycount to Compete with Call of Duty

The Call of Duty series is at the moment the undisputed king of the first-person shooter genre and at least one developer working on a competitor believes that the only way to compete with the Activision series is to take a different approach and create a smaller, more focused and more polished experience. Speakin...

14 February 2011
17:51 GMT

EA CEO Talks About Mystery End of the Year FPS

Publisher Electronic Arts might have some problems with the clarity with which it presents its financial results for the last quarter of 2010, but the company is still very much interested in creating a first-person shooter that can sell better and receive more praise than the Call of Duty series from rival Activisio...

4 February 2011
16:21 GMT

Electronic Arts Shows Both Loss and Profit for 2010 Holiday Period

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has released information about the financial results for the holiday quarter of the year that was, but the results are puzzling to a casual observer as they show a decline when using one standard and a profit when using another. Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principle rul...

3 February 2011
08:53 GMT

Medal of Honor 2 Probably in Development at Danger Close

A new job listing from development studio Danger Close suggests that the studio, which is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, is already involved in the creation of the next video game in the now rebooted Medal of Honor franchise. The job listing is for a senior gameplay engineer who needs to be familiar with the cre...

10 January 2011
02:02 GMT

GOTY 2010: Biggest Disappointment – Medal of Honor

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

Analyst: Publishers Need to Charge Fees for Multiplayer

Michael Pachter, the outspoken analyst which works for Wedbush Morgan Securities, has again caused a stir by saying that publishers need to monetize the multiplayer side of their video games in order to get the industry out of its current slump. In his Pach Attack show on the Gametrailers site, the analyst has sai...

8 December 2010
17:41 GMT

EA CEO Has Plan to Beat Call of Duty

John Riccitiello, the chief executive officer of video game publisher Electronic Arts, has said that his company is determined to be a competitive player in the first person shooter market and that he has a long term plan designed to take on the hugely successful Call of Duty franchise from rivals Activision Blizzard...

7 December 2010
16:31 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Hind versus Apache

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.Towards the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops two special operations soldiers, ...

18 November 2010
18:11 GMT

NPD Software: NBA 2K11 Beats Fallout and Medal of Honor

The NPD Group has released its slimmed down sales figures for the month of October on the United States market and in a surprising development the basketball simulation NBA 2K11 from publisher Take Two has managed to emerge as the best seller in video game sales, beating out the analyst favorite Medal of Honor and th...

17 November 2010
05:32 GMT

Analyst: Medal of Honor Will Lead October Video Game Sales

An analyst watching the video game industry has stated that video game sales for the month of October in the United States will actually see an increase over the same period of 2009, mainly powered by the release of Medal of Honor, the first person shooter from DICE, Danger Close and Electronic Arts, and Fallout: New...

16 November 2010
16:31 GMT

Analysts: Xbox 360 to Lead North America Hardware Sales in October

Analysts have offered their predictions for hardware and software sales for the month of October, just as the NPD Group, which tracks industry sales for the North American market, is preparing to put out the sales figures for last month.Both Michael Pachter, from Wedbush Morgan, and Jesse Divnich, who works with EEDA...

16 November 2010
04:43 GMT

Medal of Honor Didn't Meet EA's Quality Standards, Executive Says

Medal of Honor, EA's latest attempt to reboot the first person shooter series, hasn't exactly met the company's quality standards, according to Patrick Soderlund, the company's racing and shooter boss.Medal of Honor was revealed last month, and even though it was hyped as one of the most realistic...

8 November 2010
15:51 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Jumps to Top of United Kingdom Chart

Fallout: New Vegas, the post apocalyptic hybrid between role playing and action developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda Softworks, has managed to take the top position in the weekly United Kingdom video game chart in its first week on sale.New Vegas is not a direct sequel to Fallout 3 and takes the player a l...

28 October 2010
13:31 GMT

New Hot Zone Pack Comes to Medal of Honor

Electronic Arts, as the publisher, alongside developers DICE and Danger Close, has announced that its first person shooter Medal of Honor will be getting a whole new multiplayer mode starting with November 2, called Hot Zone, which will be paid for.The new mode plays like a King of the Hill type of game, with teams f...

28 October 2010
04:21 GMT

Medal of Honor Did Not Impact Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2

An analysis from multiplayer oriented service Raptr shows that the launch of Medal of Honor, the first person shooter from Danger Close, DICE and Electronic Arts, failed to make an impact on the time spent by gamers on the most popular titles for multiplayer, like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2.The s...

27 October 2010
04:22 GMT

A Gamer's Week: October 24

We've got two big reviews, for Medal of Honor and for Enslaved: Odissey to the West, this week but we also had time to deliver a Weekend Reading feature based around how close first person shooters can come to a real world conflict and an EndWeekGame piece detailing our habits for the two days when we'...

24 October 2010
12:21 GMT

Medal of Honor

It's hard to bring a franchise back to life, especially when the last full outing, the Airborne title from 2007, was not particularly well liked by the fan base or by the reviewers. Still publisher Electronic Arts was pretty bullish before the release of the rebooted Medal of Honor, saying that the game was part...

24 October 2010
11:21 GMT

Weekend Reading: So Close to Yet So Far Away from Afghanistan

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

Medal of Honor Shoots to Number One in the United Kingdom

Medal of Honor, the first person shooter developed by Danger Close and DICE and published by Electronic Arts, has managed to take the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart in its first week on sale despite some pretty unflattering review scores.The reboot for the franchise takes players to the mo...

21 October 2010
05:18 GMT

Details for Medal of Honor Patch Unveiled

The developers at Danger Close have said that Medal of Honor, their first person shooter which has been published by Electronic Arts, will be getting a new patch and have offered what looks like an official change log.On the official game blog the developers are saying, “We have been working on the feedback fro...

21 October 2010
04:33 GMT

Medal of Honor Sold 1.5 Million Copies, Says EA

Publisher Electronic Arts has stated that their first person shooter Medal of Honor has managed to sell more than 1.5 million units worldwide in its first five days since it was released on the United States market.The Chief Executive Officer of the company, John Ricitiello, says that the new game in the franchise ha...

21 October 2010
04:28 GMT

Clean Sweep DLC Comes to Medal of Honor on November 2

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that on November 2 their recently launched first person shooter Medal of Honor will be getting its first downloadable content pack, called Clean Sweep, which will be offered through the Xbox Live service and through the PlayStation Network, free for those who have bought the ti...

20 October 2010
04:31 GMT

EndWeekGame: October 15

Andrei Dumitrescu: My (extended) weekend will feature one long trip, through the medium of video games, to the Middle East and its sand covered expanses. First off, I plan to go through the single player campaign of the new Medal of Honor, the game which was put together by Danger Close, for the section I am int...

15 October 2010
15:51 GMT

One Hour With: Medal of Honor

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

Medal of Honor Blocks Jailbroken PlayStation 3 Consoles

Medal of Honor, EA's latest first person shooter, is the first title to require PlayStation 3 users to upgrade their firmware in order to be able to play the game, effectively rendering jailbroken or hacked PS3s useless.For those not in the know, the PlayStation 3, after years of withstanding hacking attempts, w...

14 October 2010
18:01 GMT

Bad Medal of Honor Reviews Affect Electronic Arts Shares

Share value for publisher Electronic Arts has slid more than six percent in trading as the review scores for their reboot of the Medal of Honor first person shooter were lower than expected from a variety of sources.Before the game, which will compete with the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops for the title of best so...

13 October 2010
09:01 GMT

Medal of Honor Comes with Separate Exes for Single and Multiplayer

The development team has officially confirmed that the now launched Medal of Honor will have two executables, one offering access to the single player and one dedicated to the multiplayer, allowing the team working on the first person shooter to make changes and additions to the two sides of the game independently.A ...

12 October 2010
04:41 GMT

Medal of Honor Multiplayer Will Be Very Different from Battlefield 2

A developer working on Medal of Honor, the new first person shooter from Electronic Arts, has said that the team at DICE has worked hard to make sure that the game will be as different as possible when compared to their other first person shooter franchise, Battlefield 2: Bad Company.Greg Goodrich, who is the senior ...

6 October 2010
06:04 GMT


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