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Tonight, the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards are going down at DICE in Las Vegas. The winners aren't selected by TV voters, or magazine readers, they're picked by 20,000 members of the Academy of Arts and Interactive Sciences. In other words, the peers of those nominated. More »
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At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long "game jam" after the game's release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And that was the tip of the iceberg. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883580&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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DICE promises that PC Battlefield 3 owners will see a major client update in the coming week, one that offers better stability, weapons balance, polish and other adjustments built on community feedback since the game's Oct. 25 release. More »
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Possibly in response to the XP exploit discovered last week, Electronic Arts has touted the hundreds of summary bannings it has handed out in Battlefield 3 and said it has nooooo problem handing out more. You want to boost for XP repairing an EOD robot, you little shits? I've got your ass for the rest of your natural born life if you don't watch your step. More »
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Battlefield 3 hit stores late last month, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 hits tomorrow. The two series, delivering different takes on first-person shooter warfare, both have a storied history. This mammoth graph charts the history of both series, their games, the sales, the review scores. More »
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Can you shoot someone in the head with a tank? Is it possible to jump from a jet and wrestle your way into a flying helicopter? Can a jeep safely drive over your prone form? DefendtheHouse tested out a bunch of Battlefield 3 myths in game in this video. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5856989&view=rss&microfeed=true The official Battlefield 3 servers has their own webpage now, letting gamers know the current status of the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 servers: Up or Down. It also tells you the current status of the Battlelog website. You can check it here. It updates every 60 seconds. More »
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Last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops and 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 both remained the most played video games on Xbox Live the week Battlefield 3 hit stores, according to Microsoft stats. More »
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Maybe that's a little harsh. Battlefield's defibrillators only look stupid. But everyone knows that, deep down, they're actually deadly: Fear the man who enters the modern battlefield armed with naught but two hospital paddles. More »
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Spurts. More »
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Battlefield is a series long renowned for its multiplayer prowess, but for the latest instalment, developers DICE dropped in a fairly slick and expensive singleplayer campaign. Leading many people to wonder, uh, why? More »
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The grim-faced soldier gracing the packshot of Battlefield 3 has a history with the series. He's Dennis Lennartsson, a motion-capture actor selected by DICE to star on the cover of this year's game. More »
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A line of commuter-transporting, 16-ton tranks took to the streets of London earlier today to carry commuters to work and celebrate the release of Battlefield 3 in the UK. More »
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I bet you're wondering why no one loves you on the computer version of Battlefield 3. I bet some of you get booted after a couple minutes of play every... single... time... you log into a match. Don't worry it's not personal, it's just a bug. More »
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In this scene from Battlefield 3's campaign we see the spirit of Dmitri "Dima" Mayakovsky's great grandfather driving a car in downtown Paris. More »
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Battlefield 3 is an amazing, bar-setting online shooter. It's also one of the first games of its kind that has had me ping-ponging back and forth between computer and console to play. More »
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Paying homage to a favourite game of his, artist Dave Payne has created this stunning recreation of the white-washed city featured in 2008's Mirror's Edge. More »
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We've got this massive three-screen Nvidia set-up sitting in the offices at Gawker. It's only visiting, so we're making the most of it. Today that means a lot of W-I-D-E-S-C-R-E-E-N Battlefield 3 gaming. More »
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There is no more ignoble a death then one delivered at the hot end of a Battlefield 3 "repair tool." It's not just that it's a silly way to die. Death by repair tool takes some patience by the would-be killer and a deep sense of disregard by the intended victim. More »
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Battlefield 3 was one of my most anticipated games of this fall. It is the latest iteration in a long-line of beloved shooters from a team of developers who know what they're doing, but I also love a good fight. I'm not just talking about the endless gun battles you get into in the game. I'm talking about the tooth-and-nail brawl that pits Battlefield against Call of Duty. Things tend to get better when two developers are trying to be the best at something. So how did it work out for Battlefield 3? More »
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A while ago, EA announced that people buying the PS3 version of Battlefield 3 would get a nice little bonus: a free copy of Battlefield 1943. More »
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Normally on the day after the review embargo for a major video game release is up sites like Metacritic are flooded with fresh opinions waiting to be woven together into one of Kotaku's Frankenreviews. Not so with Battlefield 3. More »
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The first Battlefield game, Battlefield 1942, was released in 2002. Nearly ten years ago! Yet while it was the first game to bear the branding that lives on to this day with Battlefield 3, depending on how you look at it, it's not really the first game in the series. More »
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To recap, Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 and PS3 has an optional HD texture install. The game's developers DICE have said that without this, the game looks "standard def". But why take their word for it when you can see the difference yourself? More »
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Some people think this year's big PC releases, particularly the "next gen" Battlefield 3, will spur around $1 billion in sales of PC hardware. More »
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This is the official launch trailer for Battlefield 3, due out next week. More »
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Battlefield 3 is, in many places, now sitting in shipping boxes, meaning people with access to those boxes can take copies out, put them in consoles, pick up a camera and play the game. Like this guy. More »
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47 billion shots fired, 2.2 billion regenerated health, 19 million lost dog tags, 1.5 billion kills. But Battlefield 3's raging beta wasn't just about those numbers, and a little sly marketing to boot, game developers DICE actually used the experience to tweak the way the game works online. More »
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