Video Games

THQ and CryTek Collaborate on Next Homefront

THQ announced yesterday
that the developers taking up the Homefront reins for the sequel would
be none other than CryTek, developers of the highly-acclaimed Crysis
series.  Considering how strong the
premise of Homefront was and the technological wizardry and experience that
CryTek boasts, it looks as though Homefront 2 could tick all the boxes
that made the first game a success while answering any criticisms that were
levelled at its graphical accomplishments and the length of its single player
campaign.

Modern Warfare 3 Developer Doesn’t Care About Sales Numbers

Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward’s Director of Communications and Community Manager for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, was recently asked how much he and his team concern themselves with competitive corporate bickering.  Surprisingly, Bowling says, “Not at all, there’s no buy in on that sort of stuff.  We don’t care about sales numbers, we don’t care about competition, we don’t care about beating anyone. Our 100 percent focus is making a game that we’re going to love to play, that we’re going to be proud of, and that we know that our fans are going to play. To us, we don’t care if there are three people playing it or 30 million people playing it. If there are three people having a great time then we’ve done our job correctly and we will be happy.”

New Dragon Age II DLC Revealed

Some fresh DLC for Bioware’s Dragon Age II entitled Mark of the Assassin features Felicia Day from the series The Guild and is set to hit the PC, PS3, and 360 on October 11th.  Day will be playing a new character called Tallis, an elven cutthroat seeking a powerful relic.  Day’s likeness has been used as the mold for her character as she and Hawke sneak into a magically fortified vault containing a gem called the Heart of the Many.

Free Watch: DC Universe Online

More and more games are going free-to-play (FTP) these days, and following on the heels of Champions Online (which went FTP) earlier this year) and City of Heroes (which recently announced that it too was going FTP), Sony have announced that their superhero MMORPG, DC Universe Online is switching to a FTP business model.

Further Details On World Of Darkness MMO

It’s been a few years since EVE Online developer CCP merged
with pen and paper RPG gaming company White Wolf, and at this years
Grand Masquerade (an event for White Wolf’s World of Darkness property)
more details have been given about the upcoming World of Darkness MMO.

Assassin’s Creed 1 to be Bundled on Disc With All Copies of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Fans of Assassin’s Creed who are looking to revisit the
beginning or have never played the first iteration of the face-stabbing
franchise have reason to rejoice, as it has just been announced that Assassin’s
Creed 1 will come included on the disc of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. While the first game wasn’t necessarily
the most distinguished, it did do many things that games up until then had
never really touched (most notably well-done building climbing).

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