Kotaku: Mercenaries

Signs Point to "Command & Conquer: Alliances" as BioWare's Big VGA Announcement

Owen Good — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:00:00 EST

Though some theories hold that the next Mercenaries game is the mystery reveal EA and BioWare have planned for the Video Game Awards, the smart money is still on a Command & Conquer game. And if that's the case, it'll probably be called Command & Conquer: Alliances if 15 domain registries by Electronic Arts are any indication. More »

Is That New BioWare Game a Mercenaries Game? Or a Command & Conquer One? How about an Army of Two One?

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:30:00 EST

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Here's an interesting theory, hatched by an astute video game message-board poster: the new BioWare game that will be revealed during next month's Spike TV Video Game Awards is a Mercenaries game. More »

Used Copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Will be Forever Haunted by the Last Owner

Sam Winstrom — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EDT

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Used Copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D might not be worth your money because Capcom made it impossible to for anyone to erase game save date from the game card. More »

A Glimpse At Canned Mercenaries and Legends Games

Brian Crecente — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EDT

There's a really good chance that neither of these games will ever see the light of day. More »

EA Makes Mercs Inc, A New "Pandemic" Game, Official [UPDATE]

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:51:50 EST

Less than a day after the game's existence was leaked, EA confirmed that a new Mercenaries is in development. The publisher announced the title as the next release from Pandemic, the studio that was all but shut down last week. More »

This Appears To Be A New Mercenaries Game

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

According to game site Bitmob, this trailer for Mercenaries Inc., a multiplayer entry in the Mercenaries franchise is a few months old, but real. More »

EA CEO: "There Will Be A Mercenaries 3"

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

And if John Riccitiello has say in the matter Mercenaries 10 will be coming to the next-next-next gen platform of your choosing. Responding on today's earnings conference call to a question if some EA's recent releases would be "sequelable," Riccitiello unsurprisingly said "Yes." Mercenaries 2: World in Flames has sold 1.9 million copies for the company, making the third entry — and probably even the tenth — a bottom line no-brainer. At least EA's mercs have job security... More »

Blow Stuff Up! Mercenaries 2: World in Flames PC Gameplay

Adam Barenblat — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

What's more fun than sitting on your couch and just blowing stuff up? There's always this disturbing sense of satisfaction when you level an entire structure with an RPG (in game). In these new Mercenaries 2: World in Flames videos you can see that is precisely what your going to be doing a lot of. More videos after the jump. More »

Mercenaries 2 Co-Op Is Drop-In, Drop-Out

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:30:00 EDT

It's not like Mercenaries 2 wasn't looking good enough on its own. But hey, co-op never hurts, it only helps, especially when it's instituted in the way Pandemic have it running for Mercenaries 2. After you start, there's no game-interrupting menu screens, no lobbies, nothing. It's drop-in, drop-out combat, and while the guest's progress through the campaign won't be saved when they quit, they will get to keep any cash and weapons they pick up. As for the host, there's no adjustments made to the game when playing co-op, which means no extra enemies. So if you're stuck on a spot, no problems, just get a friend playing and you can hide your singleplayer shame amidst the high-fives and hollering. More »

Ultizen Secures $6 Million Cash Injection

Mike Fahey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:20:00 EDT

Outsourcing specialists Ultizen have secured $6 million is series B financing in a funding round led Taiwanese venture capital firm PAC-Link, along with Japan Asia Investment Co. and on-line advertising agency CyberAgent. The money will go towards expanding Ultizen's pool of resources through acquisitions. More »

Pandemic Itchin' To Start On Mercs 3

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:20:00 EDT

Pandemic are putting their shoulder to the wheel for Mercenaries 2. Don't doubt that for a minute. But at the same time, they're probably sick to death of all the palm trees and blue skies and threats from the Venezuelan government that have marked the game's development. So it's understandable they they just want to get it done and move onto the next Mercenaries, right?:

While we don't want to delay the game, and we certainly don't want to disappoint anyone—and we're keen to ship the game and move on to Mercs 3—it was the right call for us was to make sure that co-op [in Mercs 2] was going to be properly integrated into the experience and to make sure that all that key destruction was really going to be what it needed to be.

Maybe next time they can shake things up a little. People are always blowing up Korea and South America, but what about New Zealand, Andorra and Belgium? When's it their turn? More »

Splinter Cell: Double Agent Multiplayer Vids

brownlee — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:40:05 EDT

We hope you're curious about multiplayer in Splinter Cell: Double Agent and want to see some videos, because we've got two of the blasted things to insert into this one throwaway post. The first details the 'Spies' multiplayer mode; the second, 'Mercenaries', after the jump. I'm not quite sure I'm any more in the clear on how 'Spies' is played after watching it, though. But 'Mercenaries' sure looks cool. Florian Eckhardt More »

Mercenaries Tattoo Contest Won By the Sword

egauger — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:40:49 EDT

...because it was the only entry without a skull. Hot tipper NoBullet reports that the Mercenaries tat contest is done. More »

Mercenaries II's Mattias to get Fan Tattoos

egauger — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:20:56 EDT

Aspiring tattoo artists take note! The character design team over at Pandemic has been snorting Pixy Stix out of each other's navels for the past three days, and they are tired. And if there's one thing I've learned at Kotaku Headquarters in the few weeks I've been here, it's that only through great adversity (and vageuly homoerotic sugar bingeing), are great gaming ideas born. More »