Originally Posted by wraggster Ubisoft's happy to let EA and Activision fight it out for the FPS crown this Christmas, then bring a much slower tempo to the genre with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. That's what Ubisoft UK brand manager Matt Benson told OXM, as well as admiring just how much pull the Call of Duty franchise has on gamers. While distancing the Ubi shooter from Activision and EA's efforts, Benson did suggest that Ghost Recon had been too "dry" in the past and has learnt to be ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Activision's Call of Duty subscription service, CoD Elite, could cause a "small number" of loyal players to defect to EA's Battlefield 3. That's according to the latest research note by Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, who expects Activision's shares to come under pressure when EA's game is launched - especially if it scores well with press. "We expect EA's game to perform exceedingly well, eclipsing the 6.5 million units sold by the last iteration, and ...
Originally Posted by wraggster In a surprise admission, the boss of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer has claimed that the platform holder has “lost its way” with the smash hit Halo franchise. The statement comes as Bungie makes an emotional farewell to fans, having officially stepped away from the series that it helped make into one of the most popular console IPs in the world. As Microsoft’s own studio 343 Industries takes the helm of the next Halo trilogy, Spencer says that the anonymous stars ...
Originally Posted by wraggster An intensive live event designed to engage and excite Call of Duty fans will make them forget all about EA’s rival Battlefield. That’s presumably the intention of publisher Activision, which announced the COD XP event last week. XP is billed as “the ultimate, fully-immerse live experience” by Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg. Taking place in September, it will feature several world reveals relating to new game Modern Warfare 3, host an Xbox 360-backed $1m tournament ...
Originally Posted by wraggster You guys are still doing speed-runs? Psh, speed-runs are so 2005. These days, it's all about low-score runs; baffling attempts at calculated badness, wherein highly-skilled gamers do everything they can to do as little as possible. No one does better at doing poorly than YouTube power-gamer NotEntirelySure, who recently completed the lowest-scoring no-death game of Super Mario Bros. ever, finishing the entire game with a trifling ...
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