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This week was marked by the release of Diablo 3, Blizzard’s long-awaited dungeon crawling role-playing game, which signals not just a turning point for the long-running franchise, but it might also take the whole PC gaming scene into a new direction.
As most of you know, besides featuring classic Diablo gamepl... |
19 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Cliff Bleszinski, the creative director of Epic Games and the man behind franchises like Gears of War, has shared his thoughts on the current stage of Japanese games and revealed that many of them should feature some sort of multiplayer mode in order to attract Western players. While Japan dominated the gaming indus... |
14 May 2012
19:41 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls Online, a massive multiplayer online role playing game based on the popular Elder Scrolls series from Bethesda, has just received some more details that highlight quite a lot of its features and emphasize the ways it will improve upon many other online games like World of Warcraft or Star Wars: The ... |
12 May 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Great news for Battlefield 3 players, as DICE and Electronic Arts will kick off later today a special double XP weekend in the multiplayer mode of the popular first person shooter. Battlefield 3 sold quite a lot of copies since its launch last year and, in order to keep players happy until the Close Quarters expansi... |
12 May 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Call of Duty Elite, the surprisingly popular online service from Activision, will continue to evolve, according to the company, who likens it to Microsoft’s Xbox Live, and will continue to impress both those with regular memberships and those with premium ones. Activision didn’t exactly delight the legio... |
2 May 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Activision has talked about its Call of Duty Elite online service, which it believes will become mandatory for practically any large videogame franchises because players want to feel connected with others through social features.
Call of Duty Elite may have been met with mixed feelings when it was first announced la... |
1 May 2012
19:21 GMT |
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A few hours ahead of the livestream reveal of God of War: Ascension, Sony has confirmed that the new hack and slash game will have a “ground-breaking” multiplayer mode.
God of War: Ascension was revealed in a rushed manner earlier this month after the game’s title and its first video appeared on th... |
30 April 2012
09:21 GMT |
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BioWare has kicked off another free Weekend Pass offer for its Star Wars: The Old Republic online game, allowing those who’ve yet to try out the title a chance to experience it for free.
Star Wars: The Old Republic went online last year and, since then, BioWare has tried to keep interest in the game alive by g... |
20 April 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode received a bunch of new content last week in the form of the Resurgence DLC, which brought forth new characters, maps, weapons and equipment.
I’ve already talked about the Krogan Battlemaster Vanguard and the two Geth characters included in the DLC, the Engineer and Infil... |
17 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Sony and Nihilistic Software have just unveiled the multiplayer that will be included in their upcoming Resistance: Burning Skies first person shooter, which allows up to eight players to face off against one another via the PlayStation Vita’s Wi-Fi connection. Resistance: Burning Skies is scheduled to appear ... |
17 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Bad news for PlayStation 3, PSP or PlayStation Vita owners, as Sony will take down its PlayStation Network later today for some planned maintenance in North America. The PSN has been growing strong lately, with more and more users registering for the online service in order to take advantage of the multiplayer featu... |
16 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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BioWare has released a brand new balance update for the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, this time choosing to modify just one single power, in the form of the Adrenaline Rush that can be used by the Soldier.
Besides delivering a great story (with a controversial ending), Mass Effect 3 has gotten lots of people addicte... |
11 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Unity Technologies has officially announced that their Unity development toolkit has managed to get more than 1 million registered developers, accelerating its growth rate during the last few months. 250,000 developers have signed in since the end of 2011 and the company says that the pace of adoption is actually in... |
10 April 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Ubisoft has unveiled two massive pieces of news about its long running Ghost Recon franchise, confirming that the multiplayer beta stage for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier starts later this month and that a companion service called Ghost Recon Network would also go live soon. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is awaited by q... |
9 April 2012
19:41 GMT |
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BioWare has finally detailed this weekend’s newest Mass Effect 3 challenge, in the form of Operation Beachhead, which will give all multiplayer users 25% more XP starting today and ending on Tuesday, April 10. Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer has gotten a lot of people hooked on its online experience and BioW... |
6 April 2012
05:39 GMT |
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BioWare is organizing another free to play weekend for its recent Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG, offering anyone interested a chance to try it out later today. Star Wars: The Old Republic came out last December and, while it's quite popular, BioWare has resorted to offering free-to-play weekends in the las... |
5 April 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Like clockwork, BioWare has released a brand new balance update for the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, this time improving quite a few powers, while modifying the stats of characters like the Turian or Human Soldiers. Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer is a great experience, even if it has a few awkward glitches.... |
4 April 2012
06:21 GMT |
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BioWare has confirmed that last weekend’s special Operation Raptor multiplayer event in Mass Effect 3 was a huge success, as players managed to go above and beyond the goal set by the studio and promote over 350,000 characters.Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode didn’t impress that many people when it ... |
3 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) say that virtual environments can be used to teach people how to meditate, but also how to handle their stress levels better, contributing to improving their well-being.
Several studies have proven that meditation can improve people's state ... |
2 April 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Over the weekend, players of Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode were asked to promote their characters as part of Operation Raptor, but it seems that a new glitch has appeared that keeps the old powers of the characters that were promoted. In Mass Effect 3’s online mode, once you reach a maximum of level 2... |
2 April 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Activision has just confirmed that four new modes have been added to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Free For All playlists on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms.
Modern Warfare 3 broke sales records last year and, thanks to the constant downloadable content drops made by Activision, it's still very... |
31 March 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Players of Mass Effect 3's online mode shouldn't forget to promote some of their multiplayer characters this weekend, as they'll receive special rewards for doing so as part of the Operation Raptor challenge.Mass Effect 3's multiplayer has proven to be quite popular and, thanks to special challeng... |
31 March 2012
03:51 GMT |
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After a bit of teasing, BioWare has now revealed the full list of details about this weekend’s new multiplayer challenge: Operation Raptor, in which rewards will be given out to those who promote their characters in Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode. Mass Effect 3 has already impressed lots of people with... |
29 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Rockstar has just released a brand new video with its upcoming Max Payne 3 shooter, this time showing off the special multiplayer mode that’s going to be available in the future game.Max Payne 3 arrives in May and Rockstar has promised repeatedly that its story will satisfy fans of the first two games.In betwee... |
29 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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BioWare has just mentioned a few new details about the next weekend challenge for the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, which is called Operation Raptor.Mass Effect 3 delighted millions of people earlier this month, thanks to its mostly impressive single-player as well as the addictive multiplayer mode.In order to g... |
28 March 2012
15:41 GMT |
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BioWare has just released a brand new balance update for the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3, changing the attributes of quite a few weapons, including the Javelin Sniper Rifle, Paladin Heavy Pistol, or the Geth Assault Rifle.
Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode is quite popular and, in order to ensure a great ... |
28 March 2012
05:03 GMT |
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BioWare has let it slip what the next Challenge weekend for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer mode will require of fans, as they’ll receive rewards for promoting their online characters.Mass Effect 3 has been very successful and, despite the controversy regarding its ending, it has attracted lots of people both to its ... |
26 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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After the huge success of last weekend's Operation Goliath, BioWare has now announced that the multiplayer mode in its recent Mass Effect 3 game is going to offer 25% more XP this weekend, as part of the new Operation Fortress.Mass Effect 3, for the first time in the series, features a multiplayer mode and, whil... |
24 March 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Rockstar Games has just unveiled an impressive feature that will be introduced in the upcoming Max Payne 3, in the form of Crews, which are basically a cross between clans from multiplayer shooters and guilds from online games. What’s more, these Crews will be carried over into the future Grand Theft Auto V tit... |
23 March 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Starhawk, the upcoming third person shooter from Lightbox and Sony, has just received a few more details. The two companies have now confirmed that the game has support for both two-player split screen, as well as for dual log-in, which means two people can sign into the PlayStation Network on a single console while ... |
23 March 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode is a truly impressive and quite addictive experience that can deliver, as I mentioned in my last Gamer Diary, some memorable experiences.
Seeing as how some Mass Effect fans may have never played online or have just tried out only a few matches, BioWare has the tough job of con... |
19 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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BioWare has just released the first statistics about the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3, highlighting the performances of players and sharing some interesting data about their effectiveness in the Galaxy at War mode.
Among Mass Effect 3's most controversial features there is the multiplayer mode, in which pl... |
19 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Bethesda is preparing to unveil an Elder Scrolls Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), at least according to a new report that surfaced on the web.
The latest installment in Bethesda’s massively successful The Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim, broke sales records and impressed millions upon mill... |
16 March 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment is set to deploy the Battle for Earth DLC for its DC Universe Online MMO today on the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms, which is free for Legendary players and needs to be purchased by Free or Premium ones. DC Universe Online impressed plenty of people with its great multiplayer experience ba... |
13 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Far Cry 3, besides featuring a deep story that touches on all sorts of issues, will also have an impressive online mode that’s reportedly made by Ubisoft Massive, the studio behind the popular World in Conflict strategy game who also worked on the multiplayer in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.Ubisoft is ge... |
12 March 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher Capcom has apologized again for Street Fighter x Tekken, saying that the Xbox 360 manual wrongly talks about a multiplayer mode that is only offered on the PlayStation 3 from Sony.The PS3 gamers can mix and match local and online players for four-player multiplayer battles while the Microsoft hom... |
7 March 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that its PlayStation Network online service will undergo a scheduled maintenance period tomorrow, March 1, affecting it across territories like Europe, North America or Asia.PSN maintenance periods are quite common, especially after the hacker attack last year, but this new one is a bit more seriou... |
29 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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After confirming that more than 1 million people signed up to participate in the beta stage for its upcoming Guild Wars 2 online RPG, ArenaNet has now revealed that this testing phase will kick off sometime next month.
Guild Wars 2 is set to overhaul the MMORPG scene by offering lots of content and online adventures... |
29 February 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss is set to be released next week for the PlayStation Vita, so its publisher Sony, together with the developer Bend, has decided to shed some more light on the various collectibles included in the game, as well as its Black Market feature, which ties into the Vita’s Near application. Unch... |
15 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Activision has talked about its massively successful Call of Duty franchise during an investor’s call, promising that the next version of its online Call of Duty Elite service will arrive with the upcoming all-new Call of Duty game.Activision took its Call of Duty franchise to a new level last year, in November... |
11 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Some more details about The Last of Us, the upcoming survival game from Naughty Dog, have just appeared, shedding more light onto the relationship between protagonists Joel and Ellie, as well as supplying more information about the story, while hinting at an online mode.
The Last of Us already impressed quite a lot ... |
7 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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A 23-year-old gamer from Taiwan named Chen Rong-yu, died in an Internet Café from New Taipei city, after a marathon session of online strategy game League of Legends.
Gamer deaths have been few and far in between, but each one managed to draw in unwanted attention from the mainstream media.
Now, a new onlin... |
7 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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After highlighting some of the biggest new features of the upcoming SSX snowboarding game in a previous video, EA has just deployed some new footage that goes even deeper into the online functionality of the new title. While we got a chance to check out the Explore and RiderNet features last month, EA has now presen... |
7 February 2012
02:39 GMT |
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Valve has made a few announcements concerning its massively popular Team Fortress 2 online shooter, confirming that players will finally receive the last animated short film in the game’s “Meet the Team” series, while a mysterious project and lots of other things are currently in development.Team Fo... |
4 February 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just deployed a fresh video for its upcoming SSX snowboarding simulator, this time focusing on the online features of the new game.SSX is set to mark a return of the cult classic series, once again depicting a lighthearted experience that’s bound to get the blood pumping in anyone remotely i... |
24 January 2012
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Developer Wizards of the Coast and publisher Warner Bros. have announced that they are working on a new expansion, called Menace of the Underdark , for their Dungeons & Dragons Online role playing game.The expansion will feature a whole new adventure starting in the village of Everningstar which will then lead to the... |
20 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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BioWare has released the full details of its upcoming Mass Effect 3 demo, including information about its content and how Battlefield 3 owners will be able to access the online cooperative mode earlier than the rest.
Mass Effect 3 is one of the biggest games set to appear this year, so BioWare wants everyone to have... |
20 January 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Barely did Star Wars: The Old Republic receive its first major patch, in the form of update 1.1, also known as Rise of the Rakghouls, and already new issues and glitches have been encountered, while the Ilum PvP area has now been flooded by lots of new players. Star Wars: The Old Republic is among the biggest and mo... |
19 January 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Lightbox Interactive and Sony Santa Monica have finally confirmed a release date for Starhawk, their upcoming shooter, which is scheduled to arrive on May 8 for the PlayStation 3, while deploying a video about its new beta stage.
Starhawk was announced last year as a spiritual successor to the older Warhawk. As oppo... |
19 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Ubisoft has talked about its upcoming Ghost Recon Online free-to-play title, saying once again that its free business model doesn’t mean the quality delivered by it will pale in comparison to the likes of subscription-based online games.
Ubisoft is working on not one but two Ghost Recon games these days, in th... |
18 January 2012
06:38 GMT |
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