Monday, May 7th, 2012 | Posted by Dane D | 1 Comment

EA has just released their Q4 reports for FY12.  In doing so they’ve confirmed the fears of many playing the game and the suspicions of many who used to.  In total, 400,000 subscribers have left the game, dropping the total from 1.7 million down to 1.3 million.  While MMO’s these days expect to lose subscribers after launch, the magnitude of this drop has to be a massive disappointment for EA and BioWare as they were hoping for Patch 1.2 to revitalize the player base far more than it did.

Friday, May 4th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

A scan of a cover to an upcoming issue of PC Gamer (above) over at NeoGAF confirms the production and impending release of Company of Heroes 2. In development at Relic Entertainment, only a few details about the game have thus far been extracted from the leaked images. The game will apparently release sometime in 2013, with a campaign focus on the Eastern WWII front with Russian playable characters, and with snow playing a dynamic part as environmental cover and hazards.

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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Dane D | 3 Comments

The big ‘secret’ that just about everyone knew what coming has finally been made official in a press release via Bethesda.

May 3, 2012 (London, UK) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today announced The Elder Scrolls® Online , an MMO in development at ZeniMax Online Studios. The Elder Scrolls Online will be the first Elder Scrolls game to allow gamers to explore the legendary Elder Scrolls world with others.

The title will be gracing the cover of Game Informer this coming month as well.  We here at Elder-Geek are exceptionally curious to see what type of MMO this is.  Will it be a return to grace for the dwindling era of sandbox MMO gaming which the single player games most align with?  Conversely, will it follow WoW like SW:ToR with yet another theme park MMO?  Perhaps a hybrid? We’ll know soon enough!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

An unnamed source at Electronic Arts has reportedly opened up to Front Towards Gamer, providing the info spread on the latest multiplayer DLC for Mass Effect 3. The “Rebellion” pack will supposedly include two new maps (“Firebase Jade’s” jungle reservoir and Firebase Goddess on Thessia), three new weapons for reinforcements, and six new classes (Phoenix Adept, Phoenix Vanguard, Quarian Infiltrator, Quarian Engineer, Vorcha Sentinel and Vorcha Soldier).

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

Earlier today, the Bethesda Blog announced the existence of the first downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dawnguard. Promising more details at this year’s E3, the DLC will launch sometime this Summer, and will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 for its thirty days.

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Spoiling their own announcement half a day early, some overeager Activision employee launched the publisher’s official reveal site for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Confirming the rumored November 13th deadline, Activision included the following blurb describing the upcoming schedule: Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare.

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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

“Not just a marketing piece” according to Microsoft, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will be a live action web series to promote the game’s November 6th launch. Representing Microsoft’s largest investment ever in live action production, Dawn will release in five 15-minute episodes on Machinima and the Halo Waypoint online community. The series will act as “an origins story that teaches you about a lot of different facets of the (‘Halo’) universe.”

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Thursday, April 26th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

GSC Game World announced earlier today that production on their sequel to the atmospheric shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has stalled, taking the studio with it. After failing to obtain the rights to the franchise, a new studio was founded and a new IP began production. Vostok Games is now hard at work on a free-to-play MMOFPS by the name of Survarium, the “next evolution step for the idea of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. we’ve been working on for the last ten years” according to Project Lead Ruslan Didenko.

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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments

DSO Gaming reports that it has uncovered an entry in the Steam registry that suggests the downloadable Alan Wake-spin off Alan Wake’s American Nightmare will be making its way to Steam in the foreseeable future. More information is included after the jump.

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Saturday, April 21st, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

Bethesda sent out a brief press release earlier in the week to let the media know that Prey 2, it’s Human Head Studios-developed future FPS, has been delayed past 2012. No updated launch window was provided, with the company stating that the development for the game “has not progressed satisfactorily this past year”. In its current state, the software reportedly “does not currently meet [Bethesda] quality standards.”

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Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Already half way to a graphic novel, Remedy’s noir shooter franchise Max Payne will be getting a three-issue comic run, Marvel announced earlier in the week. Remedy’s Sam Lake (Max Payne, Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Game’s Dan Houser (Max Payne 3) will pen the script for the comic, which will be published both digitally and in hard-back. Acting as a sort of prequel to next month’s Max Payne 3, the comic will take place in between the events of the series’ first two installments.

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Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

THQ confirmed a delay in Vigil Game’s Darksiders II earlier today, stating that a final bit of polish was needed before the game could go gold. Originally slated for this June, the hack-and-slash/dungeon crawler will instead launch this August. THQ has denied rumors that the delay is being implemented in reaction to the company’s recent layoffs, or to better align with the launch of Nintendo’s Wii U.

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Monday, April 16th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments

As expected, EA announced a new installment in the Crysis series earlier today. Crysis 3, once again developed by German developer Crytech, is set for a launch in Spring 2013 on PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. More details are available after the jump.

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Friday, April 13th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments

After its existence was mistakenly revealed on their Origin service, Electronic Arts confirmed that a formal reveal of Crysis 3 information can be expected on April 16th. Speaking to Joystiq, EA proclaimed that “The best kept secret in shooters just can’t be contained”. According to Russian gaming website Madfanboy (via CVG), Crysis 3 will be set in a devastated New York City that is “almost a jungle”. A Spring 2013 launch is expected for the game, as is a simultaneous launch across 360, PC, and PS3.

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

The social media version of Gaikai’s cloud streaming application is now available on Facebook in the US and Europe. Currently, only demonstration builds of Farming Simulator 2011, Magicka, Sniper – Ghost Warrior, Orcs Must Die! and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings are available in both territories, with Saints Row: The Third and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record for play exclusively in the United States. Streaming of the full versions of the aforementioned games – among others – is planned for the near future, with MMO streaming also promised.

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