At this rate, they may have to.

A couple of Battlefield related news as the series celebrates its 10 year anniversary today and Battlefield 4 will stay in the modern setting.

During the ongoing 2012 Game Developer Conference, the general manager of DICE, Karl Magnus Troedsson, revealed the Battlefield series turned 10 years old today with about 50 million games sold in the entire series. Battlefield 3 alone accounts for 12 million of the series total sales.

Troedsson also revealed Battlefield 4 will be taking place during the modern day just like Battlefield 3. So far the only other details known about the game is a release date of late 2013 is currently being planned for the game.

Previously, DICE had teased a bit at the potential for the next Battlefield game to take place in the near future after becoming worried about first person shooters becoming a bit stale in the modern setting while the market soon could be showing signs of loosing interest in favor of wanting something new.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...he-modern-day/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...urns-10-today/
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Daily Recap:
1) A supposed "Durango" dev kit for the next Xbox console was recently put up for sale on eBay by allegedly the same person who was the first to leak images of the debug and UI menu screens which were later confirmed to be true by developers who actually have the device.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/aleg...-kit-sale-ebay
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-sale-on-ebay/

2) EA is really emphasizing the upcoming Medal of Honor Warfighter game will be "the most authentic shooter" by linking the official website of the game to gun makers and shops who have the actual guns available to purchase online.
http://gameological.com/2012/08/partners-in-arms/
http://www.destructoid.com/medal-of-...s-232993.phtml

3) Developers Firaxis Games release a new video for the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Unknown showing off some of the multiplayer modes, strategies, and a new points system which is used to completely customize a player's squad.
http://www.screwattack.com/video/XCO...vealed-2507776

Jesus Christ, EA.

I got a bad feeling about that gun link idea.

Why in fuck's sake are any of the guns in that game available for purchase by civilians?

And it's a really bad fucking time to even reveal that sort of thing. Like they've been living under a rock. Bad idea on so many levels.

Sleeping Dogs getting pretty good reviews across the board. Was already planning on picking it up.

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Too sooooooooooooooooooooon!

During the Sony press conference at Gamescom today, the company revealed a brand new game which will rely heavily on the PS Move.

The game is called "Until Dawn" and is essentially similar to teen horror and slasher style films in terms of gameplay and story.

7 playable characters with the goal of the player to keep them all alive for a whole night even though they are being chased in the woods by an unknown killer.

Supermassive Games was revealed as the developer for the game who previously worked on Tumble and Start the Party for the PS Move.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...le-until-dawn/
http://www.destructoid.com/panty-sho...d-233095.phtml
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Daily Recap:
1) Activision announces the PS3 version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will be arriving on August 28 with a PC release date expected to be announced in the near future.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-3/

2) To help boost sluggish Vita sales one more time, Sony announces the "buy a PS3 game and get the Vita version free" promotions will now fall under the "Cross Buy" label with the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, or Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault all available to be free on the Vita if the PS3 version is bought for each.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...pcoming-games/
http://www.destructoid.com/cross-buy...e-233079.phtml

Knock down the price of the Assassins' Creed: Liberation bundle and I might be convinced to buy it.

Other than that, I don't need it. Already got myself a 3DS.

Yeah, it does look pretty good. They say the combat controls are kinda pokey, according to an IGN review. That can be dealt with, as the rest of the game was fairly solid.

The game map seemed kinda small, when you compare it to other games like it. It might not have been meant to adhere to the 'open world', sandbox genre though. I'll have to wait, though. I'm already committed to Forza Horizon, WWE13 and eventually GTA 5.

At Gamescom, EA re-announces a new Command & Conquer game is being development and is being done by Bioware who teased they were working on a game for the series months ago.

Titled as "Command & Conquer", the game follows the same RTS style as past games in the series while also using the free-to-play model.

In terms of content, the first content piece available at launch will be based on the Generals 2 game with more "universes" to be added in the future such as the Red Alert and Tiberium settings.

The game itself runs on the Frostbite 2.0 engine while Bioware Victory studio is working on the project. A closed beta will be available in the future with official signups to occur at the game's official webpage.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/gene...ommand-conquer
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/15/co...ree-to-play-c/
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Daily Recap:
1) The Last Story's US launch has been delayed again to now an August 17 date due to shipping errors from Gamestop and other retailers. Amazon themselves state it might take up to 3 weeks more for their orders to be delivered to consumers.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...pping-it-late/

2) Another "LA Noire" fiasco appears to be occurring at Vigril Games after complaints of the studio purposely left out names of several people from the Darksiders II credits list. A few of the names left out supposedly had a major impact on the finished state of the game.
http://www.destructoid.com/darksider...--233138.phtml
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=183400

3) Update to Valve potentially announcing Half-Life 3 at Gamescom appears to have been false baring a special announcement before the expo is over. It appears the debut of "Mann vs Machine" mode for Team Fortress 2 most likely was the special announcement which occurred well before EA's press conference.

Haven't played Command & Conquer in a looooooooong time. I got Generals and it can't run on my rig anymore. If Chris Taylor would pull his head out of his ass and fix the disaster that was SupCom 2, I'd be slowly getting back into the RTS swing of things.

It's sad when "Vave not announcing HL3" is news.

Well the state of videogame news has been sad for quite some time now, because I see that headline every year.

I would probably still get excited at this point for HL3, but I don't know. Given the choice, I'd rather see Portal 3.

Duh.

Fignuts' next revelation: FPS are popular.

Your mother.

Picked up Sleeping Dogs today. Really fun so far. Combat isn't quite as fluid as Batman, but I didn't expect it to be. It's still pretty satisfying though, and the environmental attacks are a blast.

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Capcom reveals the official 25th anniversary celebration for the Mega Mna series will be a new game called "Mega Man Xover" and will only be available for iOS devices.

The game is a social RPG type game which will allow players to customize their own Mega Man character while visually borrowing from the Mega Man X iOS game released earlier in the year.

The setting for the game takes place in the Xover World which is a crossover of all the worlds within the entire series.

In terms of storyline, Dr. Wily teams up with Sigma to lock away all the Mega Man heroes into a separate universe while Dr. Light and Dr. Cossack create a new playable robot hero to save them all.

The game has a Fall 2012 release date with December 17 expected to be the actual date.

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http://andriasang.com/con28o/mega_man_rpg_ios/
http://www.screwattack.com/news/capc...-man-x-rpg-ios
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Daily Recap:
1) Gamestop is ditching the 25-digit system for selling DLC content in favor of a more user friendly system which would send the direct link to the content as an email message. The new system will only be available for Xbox 360 users but the company has plans to expand it to all consoles in the future.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/game...25-digit-codes
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/08/gamestop-dlc/

2) The previous Japan-only Hrule Historia which celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Zelda and the new 3 branches for the timeline will be arriving in the US next year courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/hyru...k-horse-comics
http://www.destructoid.com/ultimate-...s-233294.phtml

3) Update to EA linking real gun manufactures as sponsors for the upcoming MoH Warfighter as the company has removed or hid the links on the official website which had the real life versions of the weapons found in the game available for sale online.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-backs-...t-233282.phtml

That Megaman game actually sounds pretty interesting.

Oh yeah, smart move, Capcom. Now all the kids with dumb phones gotta go out and buy smart phones JUST so they can get their Mega Man fix.

LOL at EA.

Sorry to bust your big scoop.

According to several sites and sources, OnLive could be facing bankruptcy and shutting down soon with several sites stating their sources reveal layoffs are currently happening at the company.

An official statement by the company denies anything bad is going on right now with the company but Kotaku has stated the company recently filed a bankruptcy-like claim in the state of California.

According to GiantBomb and EGMNow who have contacts close to the situation are reporting a 10am meeting occurred recently with the entire staff present fired on the spot. Both also supposedly had witnesses who confirmed seeing employees leaving the building with moving boxes.

While the rumors point to OnLive no longer existing as a company soon, there is also the small possibility of the company itself not completely shutting down as a whole and instead being rebranded under a new name but as a much smaller company.

The news also comes as a concern to the upcoming Ouya console who had recently announced a partnership with OnLive as a way to help bring the entire OnLive catalog and service to their console.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...-shutting-down
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/onlive...dated-x2/4322/
http://kotaku.com/5935767/onlive-fil...take-its-place
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-its-closing/
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Daily Recap:
1) Valve announces the beta for Steam's "Big Picture" project which is Steam's user interface optimized for tv displays will begin in September.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/valv...eta-later-year
http://www.destructoid.com/big-pictu...r-233352.phtml

2) Team Ninja states they would like another opportunity in developing a Metroid game with the company currently in close contact with the co-creator of the series, Yoshio Sakamoto.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...other-metroid/

3) According to Bioware, Day One DLC is not a bad thing considering they state their fans and customers love the idea of having DLC available at launch regardless of the content being found on-disc or not. They state the reason they favor this is due to their data shows a significant percentage of players do not finish their games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...t-day-one-dlc/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...adable-content

Ah. Was wondering how the OnLive rumour was going to be misreported here.

Day 1 DLC is proven by stats to sell. Can't argue with that.

Fuck team ninja. Stay the fuck away from my Metroid.

The only real argument is the spin on it, that people want it. Many people just feel compelled to get it.

In any case, it sells. Gamers need to learn vote with their wallets.

The "vote with your wallet" bullshit is the reason that this shit keeps happening.

Also, this may not be news, but Onlive has two free games as part of a free indie weekend: Spaz and Spacechem or something.

Doom. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

CEO also recently accepted full blame for creating the financial mess for the company which lead to the recent filing for a type of bankruptcy called "Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors."

Yesterday he was being blamed solely for the mess and doing nothing about it nor informing the employees of the situation until it was too late which lead to the mass firings yesterday.

His official reason was basically over expansion to the point of them having over 8000 servers being used by only 1600 paid users.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...ankruptcy.aspx

Sorry if this was posted before, but i found it hilarious.

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According to rumors from a potential survey, Dragon Age 3 could be featuring a co-op mode, the story taking place during a civil war, and a few other gameplay details.

The survey which hasn't been confirmed nor denied by EA and/or Bioware reveals plans for online and co-op modes along with finishing moves and the ability to control up to 4 party members out of a pool of 10 heroes at a time. The ability to use spies is also rumored as another feature for the game.

In terms of the game's story, the player takes on the role of an Inquisitor who's goal is to stop a civil war currently going on in the land of Thedas.

In terms of the official title for the game, at least five names were teased in the survey with the final name possibly being chosen from this group.
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http://www.screwattack.com/node/2557846
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eplay-details/
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to last week's OnLive story as Lauder Partners, LLC was revealed to have been the buyers of OnLive. About half of the workforce was retained while the other half received no compensation for their layoffs.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/onlive...tal-deal/4323/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...taff-retained/

2) Fallout 4 currently rumored to be taking place in Boston with Bethesda themselves rumored to be scouting the area for design purposes.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...set-in-boston/

3) A sequel to The World Ends With You is expected to be announced in a week and possibly for mobile devices after a recent countdown timer appeared on Square Enix's Japanese website.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...o-mobile-game/
http://www.destructoid.com/is-square...--233460.phtml

I'm about to roll out a Sith Inquisitor in Old Republic. Perhaps that experience will give me some insight as to what I might expect from this new Dragon Age game.