New game releases of May 20-26
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U
The Last of Us digital download lets you start playing sooner
Weekend PC download deals: Borderlands 2 for $11
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection coming to PS3 in July for $50
Madden NFL 25's $99 'Anniversary Edition' includes Sunday Ticket
Final Fantasy 8 getting PC re-release (in Japan)
Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Jan 06, 2011 5:00pm PSTTime to go record a new episode of Weekend Confirmed. How's everyone finding the Mac App Store so far? The offerings are pretty slight for the moment as far as major stand-out applications and games, but everyone should get the official Twitter client (Tweetie 2.0).
What gems have you found on there?
Gaming News of the Day
- Microsoft announced a few things at CES.
- Tomb Raider Trilogy HD collection official for PS3.
- Razor shows off a portable gaming computer prototype.
- Mike Haggar and Phoenix added to MvC3.
Links from Morning Discussion
I say Portal 2 will mop up that metacritic score/goty awards like a mexican janitor with the promise of churro's waiting at home
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2. Scale should be increased. A 128 player option would be nice. 64 is expected. Anything less, like 32, and it's not a full on sequel to Battlefield. It's just Bad Company 3.
3. The tracer dart in Bad Company 2, as it is now, is too easy to use. Vehicles, especially air power, should be deadly and feared. Reduce the spawn time on the craft or allow the team commander to deploy large, expensive, automated, and extremely lethal SAM systems around certain points/areas. Then it becomes the work of special strike squads to remove these SAM sites.
4. Infantry combat is not the problem. Battlefield does that well. The real balance work will be on vehicle combat. Fuck infantry only servers. It's not Battlefield without vehicles. Infantry only combat is for small teams and small maps. Go play Halo or CoD. Make areas or regions of the map where vehicles can't go but that's it.
5. No. Squad VOIP. You must work through the chain of command to accomplish effective team wide coordinated maneuvers. People that want team wide voip are asking for Halo or CoD, small team size gameplay. They just don't know it.
6. Key yet finite assets like artillery, satellite scans, supply drops should be under the authority of the general/commander and not squad leaders or grunts. Agree on removing mechanics like automated repair or healing. That should be performed by the grunts. Force the soldiers to help each other out, even if its not a squad they belong to.
7. Agreed. Tanks should be feared. They should be rare, but very tough to kill, yet tank long to repair. Something must be done to encourage gamers to protect and not squander the very valuable and most powerful vehicles like tanks and choppers. If you are worried about everyone getting a turn in the tank then that's what certain, vehicle centric maps, are for. BF2's Euro Forces pack had a very tank and vehicle centric map.
8. You must spawn on a squad leader. You should not be able to spawn at any soldier's location. Squad leaders only.
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