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Read More »Bad Company 2 wows critics
We were already expecting Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to become the seventh UK no.1 when the charts are released next week – and the critical reception being won by EA’s shooter following the lifting of its review embargo will do nothing to hurt its chances. The game – which is …
Read More »Ex-DICE boss calls Wii a virus
The former boss of Swedish Battlefield developer DICE has slammed Nintendo’s Wii for being, in his words, a toy and not an entertainment focused product”. Wii, to me, I would describe it as a virus that doesn’t stick,” the dev told GamingUnion, as spotted by CVG. It’s a toy, people …
Read More »3.5m downloads for BFBC2 demo
The Xbox 360 and PS3 multiplayer demo for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been downloaded over 3.5m times since it was released by EA last month, the publisher has revealed. Since its arrival gamers have successfully slaughtered 500m times, though they’ve also revived 25m of their fellow soldiers. In addition …
Read More »OnLive shown live at DICE
OnLive, which streams top-notch games direct to any device, including TV, has its share of skeptics. Since the service’s announcement at GDC last year, critics have cast doubt on its claims to eliminate latency. But at DICE yesterday (Thursday), OnLive’s president and CEO Steve Perlman showed a live, working demo …
Read More »DICE: Naughty Dog’s doctrine of trust
Managers not welcome at Sony's hit studio
Read More »Managers not welcome at Sony’s hit studio
"There is not one person at Naughty Dog whose only job is to mange other people. We have very little hierarchy." At the DICE conference in Las Vegas, Naughty Dog co-lead game designer Richard Lemarchand outlined the company’s "loose" culture and structure, which eschews management hierarchies in favor of communal …
Read More »US: Disney kicks off DICE
Today’s social networking technologies and consumer offerings are direct descendants of ideas pioneered by Walt Disney, such as the theme park, according to Disney Interactive boss Steve Wadsworth. Delivering a keynote speech at DICE in Las Vegas Wadsworth said, "Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company have always understood that …
Read More »"BC2 is about to make serious noise"
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is about to make some serious noise” – that’s the claim of the game’s executive producer Karl Magnus Troedsson, speaking to MCV in an interview ahead of the release of DICE’s latest shooter. I couldn’t be more happy with the game – which the awesome team …
Read More »3m play Battlefield Heroes
Publisher EA and Swedish developer DICE have announced that over 3m players have no signed up to the online free-to-play Battlefield Heroes. Battlefield Heroes continues to grow fast with well over 50,000 new players joining us every week,” Battelfield Heroes’ general manager Ben Cousins stated. The full story is over …
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