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Antic Entertainment emerges with Junk: Battles in tow
It seems that the guy who founded DICE, Fredrik Liljengren has moved onto bigger and better things with his latest game studio, Antic Entertainment. You may be familiar with DICE as the studio behind Battlefield: Bad Company and Battlefield: 1943.
Anyways, Antic Entertainment is to be a studio that specializes in free-to-play games with their first title being Junk: Battles. This browser based RTS will let players create their own ship and then duke it out against other players as they collect parts to upgrade said ship.
If you want to read more about Junk: Battles and Antic Entertainment, head over to the game’s official website here.
via gamasutra
Sony announces new Playstation 3 Greatest Hits Games
Sony has recently released a list detailing the newest additions to their Greatest Hits collection and you know what that means, right? Lower prices of course.
Below is the complete list, courtesy of Kotaku, of 6 games that will be added to the Greatest Hits collection:
Army of Two, Electronic Arts Battlefield: Bad Company, Electronic Arts Devil May Cry 4, Capcom Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Sony Computer Entertainment America Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Konami Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Sony Computer Entertainment America
These games will all be lowered to the much-more-manageable price of $29.99.
Battlefield developer “underestimated console gamers”
Battlefield Bad Company was the first true Battlefield game released on the new generation of consoles, and the first one to feature a fully fledged single-player campaign.
Now developer DICE director Lars Gustavsson says in an interview with GamesIndustry, that they underestimated the console gamers, and thought that the hardcore FPS gamers always resided on the PC platform. Gustavsson said,
“I think one of our biggest mistakes with Battlefield: Bad Company.. was that when we started making it, laying out the plans, the view on the gamer was that it’s a console audience, and we need to treat them a bit more gently, since they’re less experienced,”
DICE will now take that knowledge and use it in the upcoming sequel, Bad Company 2, which will be released early next year on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Mass Effect, Bad Company Sequels Next Year
Continuing the onslaught of EA news today, company CEO John Riccitiello has revealed that sequels to Mass Effect and Battlefield: Bad Company are in the works for release during the first quarter of 2010.
The CEO noted that Mass Effect 2 will arrive on multiple platforms, meaning it could hit PS3, PC and Xbox 360 at launch. The first was exclusive to Xbox 360 before being ported to PC a few months later.
BF: Bad Company 2 will likely follow its predecessor, being released for PS3 and Xbox 360 simultaneously.
No details on either game were given.
Dead, Army of Two, Bad Company Getting Sequels
The old money-grubbing EA is still in the heart of the seemingly-reformed publisher, as company head honcho Frank Gibeau revealed that they plan on pushing out sequels for their big sellers this year. That includes Dead Space, Army of Two and Battlefield: Bad Company, along with a confirmed trilogy for Mirror’s Edge.
The aforementioned games already have “sequel ideas planned,” noted Gibeau. He also expressed that EA is looking to expand into game-inspired films, books and television shows.
All the games mentioned above have sold well since release – though Mirror’s Edge isn’t due out until next month. In fact, Army of Two has been one of the year’s best-selling Xbox 360 titles so far.
Bad Company Gets Conquest This Thursday
EA has announced that the promised Conquest mode expansion for Battlefield: Bad Company will be released as a free download this Thursday. It will be made available through both Xbox Live and PlayStation Store, offering the traditional Battlefield multiplayer mode that made the series so famous.
The player’s objective is to reduce a team’s ticket count by killing foes and capturing control points. It will be playable online across four Gold Rush maps.