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It's okay if you don't want to play video games online with tons of people. I'm with you. And so are lots of other people. Lots of other people. More »
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There is plenty of room in our gaming lives for more Battlefield 3, more Bad Company and many more military first-person shooters from EA, the giant game publisher's number two boss told Kotaku this week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883559&view=rss&microfeed=true Anyone who's been watching EA knows that the publisher's going to be tethering portable spin-offs to its big releases. Last year's Dead Space game for iOS and Android proved such games could be great and yesterday we saw the debut of Mass Effect Infiltrator. This sector's a big deal for EA. More »
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You're playing a game like Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty, shooting and grenading left and right. And you're thinking, "Wow, what an awesomely realistic game. The Navy Seals should be playing this." More »
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The guys at ApertureVFX have put together this more-than-somewhat-awesome live-action take on the chaotic, visually disorienting gameplay of Battlefield 3. More »
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YouTube user LiquidMyPhone found a very large soldier on the battlefield of Battlefield 3. We have no idea how to replicate this, but we would if we could. More »
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Check out this awesome video of a Battlefield 3 tour de force made (to seem) real. Battlefield 3 fans may remember the original in-game stunt, in which a fighter pilot leaps from his cockpit and then shoots down an enemy jet with a rocket launcher before landing safely back in his jet. More »
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Over the past week, a ton of innocent Battlefield 3 gamers have been wrongly banned from the game, the result of a hack movement protesting the use of (ahem) anti-cheat software. More »
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The people at the game-hacking site Artificial Aiming can't stand the anti-cheat service Punkbuster. One of their members is going on the offensive today—aggressively. More »
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The Grosjean Brothers recently made a fun, short live-action video that showed us what Skyrim would be like if it was set in a convenience store. More »
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On Monday, I wrote about homophobic language in Battlefield 3. I thought I had sufficiently unpacked the words I quoted from the game's multiplayer dialogue in order to make my point clear. More »
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This isn't, despite all appearances to the contrary, a fan film based on EA's Battlefield 3. It's a commercial based on EA's Battlefield 3, one for a store that sells replica guns. More »
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The first time I heard "I'm getting my shit pushed in!" during a multiplayer match of Battlefield 3 was from the mouth of an acquaintance in Party chat. I assumed he and his friends were laughing at how ridiculous it sounded, because robbed of context it did sound pretty funny. I've since come to realize he was parroting and mocking scripted dialogue from within Battlefield 3's multiplayer, and somehow this homophobic content has escaped the notice of the video game press for nearly three months. More »
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Battlefield 3 is the first multiplayer shooter I've played regularly for years, but I've been on the cusp of tapping out lately because of all the cheats. Like guys in helicopters who hover at the edge of the map and deal out instant death. More »
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Last month, EA's "EAsy" division, which runs the free-to-play Battlefield Play 4 Free, elected to lower the damage of paid-for in-game weapon add-ons in the interest of balancing the game. Users were justifiably angry that the in-game items they had bought had been taken away, particularly as they were offered no refund. More »
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Electronic Arts is asking a federal judge to rule that it has a First Amendment right to depict real-life military helicopters in video games such as Battlefield 3 without the permission of the aircraft's maker. More »
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After teaming up with EA to produce a Battlefield 3 commercial, Internet sensation Freddie Wong—best known for geeky, homemade film shorts that riff on Splinter Cell, Halo and Portal—stayed on set to create the video seen above. This one imagines what asynchronous co-op play might look like for that game's inevitable sequel. "Battlefield 4" does an ingenious job of visualizing how communication and co-ordination might look like across the huge levels that DICE's series is known for. It's also nice to see what FreddieW and crew can do with a bigger budget. More »
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Gameplay as cinema? Sure, it can work, especially when it's as entertaining as Run, a short clip put together by YouTube user JackFrags. More »
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I'm going to lean out of the window here and share some knowledge I gathered about a very complex topic I had no idea about a few months ago. Why am I doing that? Because I found it fascinating to read about it and maybe it gives someone else a reason to further dive into that kind of stuff. And despite all my searching I did not find a whole lot about this whole topic that would reference more dynamic games like Battlefield. I don't claim competence and what's even worse is that a lot of that stuff seems to be surprisingly hard to dig up. More »
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Nothing says CHRISTMAS SPIRIT like synchronising an expensive set of blinking lights to video game theme music. More »
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This fan-made Battlefield 3 movie is impressive in that they've got some realistic-looking gear and capture the little nuances of the game perfectly. More »
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Battlefield 3 has finally figured out that the key to making a successful television ad is not to pick a theme song whose essential lyrics must be bleeped, and just put it all in the hands of filmmaker Freddie Wong. More »
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Rebecca Black, Google+, Ryan Dunn and... Battlefield 3? More »
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Games like Battlefield and Call of Duty are worst when they are played by casual fans, people who may enjoy the occasional match but who don't take the time to daily hone their skills. More »
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After debuting first on the PlayStation 3 last week, the re-mastered Battlefield 2 maps of Back to Karkand hit the Xbox 360 and PC today. The video above gives a tour of the Sharqi Peninsula locale, with tons of on-foot and vehicular mayhem to be had. Owners of the Battlefield 3: Limited Edition get Back to Karkand for free; otherwise it costs $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points. More »
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There are sections of EA's blockbuster Battlefield 3 in which the player controls an American soldier fighting on the streets of Tehran. It went down pretty well in most places, but Iran isn't most places. More »
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Watching Battlefield 3 like this makes me wish I had a PC to play it on. It looks great in slow motion. Watch it in full 1080p HD or else you will be losing half the beauty of the video. More »
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This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: "I will take bullets for you," it read. More »
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Few things confirm the ingenuity of gamers as effectively as the lengths they'll go to add penises to video games that don't include penises. More »
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Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing may not be known by its name to many gamers, but they certainly do recognize its good looks, being used in such visually luxurious games as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City and Battlefield 3 More »
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Technically speaking this isn't a kill made with a jet. But it is made by a gamer who was recently in a jet. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 left an inch-deep bootprint on video gaming's biggest retail month, and dominated most measures the popular press use to designate big-game-itude. Yet Peter Moore, the Electronic Arts chief operating officer, is insisting his label's Battlefield 3 drew blood from the year's biggest commercial release. More »
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Virtual war crimes won't lead to real world prosecution, the International Committee of the Red Cross clarified today. More »
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There have been many obvious copies of big-budget games over the years, though some hide their "borrowing" better than others. More »
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Battlefield 3's Back to Karkand map pack updates four of the most popular Battlefield 2 maps for DICE's new shooter. More »
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Battlefield 3's Back to Karkand expansion pack is live in Europe and hits the rest of the world this afternoon, if you own the Playstation 3. PC and Xbox 360 owners will need to wait until Dec. 13. More »
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Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since Biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games? More »
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One of the world's largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games. More »
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There are plenty of videos out there showing just how "creative" Battlefield 3 players have gotten with the game's many explosives. More »
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To be clear, the legal sale of Battlefield 3 in Iran has never exactly been widespread. But as is the way of the world, "street vendors" had been selling the game anyway, and according to reports that's resulted in a crackdown from Iranian authorities More »
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