To start off this week brought us the Battlefield 3 beta, which despite being as jumpy as a badger on crack looks like a very enjoyable game, and does seem to have some ability to finally kill COD, but won't because of how many 13 year olds will get MW3 anyway. It seems more balanced and actually more controlled, fun and actually makes you work in a team in order to survive and win, as you would in real war and not run into your 6" by 6" room with an ak74-u and spin on the spot certain to win. The beta is now open to everyone after some time being only accessible to medal of honor owners and origin users.
Also in Battlefield 3 news, DICE/EA have released a new online service to track stats called battlelog. Can't help but see a connection to something else. Surely Activision are already doing this with something else, some sort of fish franchise, haddock or cod or something. Still, regardless of my poor puns you get the sense that EA are so determined to steal the Call of Duty market that they not only copy everything they do marketing wise but then put their fingers in their ears and say in a harsh loud voice "What? Call of Duty already said they were doing that? It's called Elite? Never heard of it! lalalalalalalala". Spoken like the children they are. However surely they must realise that their game is better because anyone with a modicum of sense switches to it while all the annoying 'noob-tubing' 13 year olds stay with Call of Duty so they can call each other fags a lot.
In other news Star Wars: The Old Republic has finally gotten a release date of December 20th for the US, and December 22nd for the EU. Unfortunately it will be a montly fee payment which makes me less inclined to purchase the game. For 1 month it will cost you $14.99, 3 months is $13.99 and 6 months is $12.99. Now quite frankly if you can get the most amount of time for the least amount of money why the hell would you buy any other time frame? And why have 1 month, if you seriously planned to only play it for 1 month why bother. Still, looking forward to seeing what this game is actually like.
In other news Rage will be on 3 discs for xbox 360 users, 2 of which are single-player and the third is entirely multi-player. If that seems excessive then i'm thankful I'm a) not a PC player and b) not interested in this game anyway because it is looking to being a huge 20GB download. I'll stick to my mac and also, stick to gaming on my xbox.
There's going to be a Dead Space 3!......... Possibly. It's rumoured but not officially announced so keep your eyes open but don't get your hopes up totally yet, although it is highly plausible. If it is true there saying it will have planet levels. But remember these are rumours. Speculation. So don't quote me on it.
L.A. Noire on P.C.! Not like it's four months late, and won't be on P.C. until November. Well better late than never I guess Bondi. Bondi? BONDI!? Oh yeah, Rockstar shut them down last month. Bummer. Guess it is too late then.
And a quick couple of lines of other news: Team Fortress now has a free to play arcade game, Dead Island could have a movie made of it, produced from that guy who brought you the mummy and in even more Battlefield news, yes you thought we were through with that, no I'm not a fanboy honest, they are having a $1.6 million Battlefield 3 tournament next year. Um, EA, please, please, stop trying to copy a company that is ultimately worse than you. Thank you.
And the major game release is of course Gear of War 3. I hope to have a review up of it soon, however there will be no multi-player review of it due to a lack of xbox live at the moment. However we did get a bit of news about it, the first DLC will feature totally new characters to the GOW franchise.
So, EA wants to be Activion, Rage is huge, The Old Republic seems to be real, and Dead Space 3... might be.
Until next week...
J Stanley
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