Dive into five exciting movie worlds with the free KINECT RUSH: A Disney-PIXAR Adventure demo, now available for download from Xbox LIVE exclusively for Xbox 360. The demo weighs in at 837.62 MB.
Content:Kinect Rush: A Disney-PIXAR Adventure Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Use Kinect™ to become unique characters in fast-paced Pixar adventures. Dive into five exciting movie worlds to discover hidden secrets and solve puzzles. Use your arms, legs, and wits to save the day! Invite your family to join Woody, Lightning McQueen, and others, in this one-of-kind Pixar experience!
In this episode of “Inside DICE”, Lead Designer Niklas Fegraeus talks about the inspiration for going indoors, and what possibilities and challenges this presented.
When designing the new “Close Quarters” DLC maps, developers quickly found that Rush, being a large and progressive mode that takes you on a journey from M-COM to M-COM, simply wouldn’t fit. So instead, they turned their attention to Conquest.
Watch an early test video recorded during a play test and judge the effect of all the new destruction for yourself.
Hi everyone. This is Niklas Fegraeus, Lead Designer on Battlefield 3: Close Quarters. Above is an early test video we recorded during a play test to judge the effect of our new destruction. But first things first:
In 2001, while making games for the Sega Dreamcast, I began a career as a clan player in Counter-Strike. This eventually became a semiprofessional part time job, as I got a sponsor, won several LAN tournaments and competed in the Cyber athlete Professional League.
Now, in 2012, my competitive mouse is put on the shelf, but I consider the experiences from those days invaluable to my role as game designer making Battlefield games.
Counter-Strike is a very tactical and precise art of close quarters shooting, so I can comfortably say I know a little about how those tight shooter experiences play, and how they should play.
Battlefield on the other hand, is a huge game in more ways than one. Even we developers sometimes have a hard time realizing its breadth. You can go from clearing a house of enemy soldiers through careful squad tactics to soaring through the sky in a jet fighter, frantically evading enemy anti-air weaponry, all in the same round.
I can still recall the thrill of that scale and freedom I had when I first tried the game. It was the BF1942 demo on Wake Island (before I joined the crew here at DICE) and I was raging over those damn fighter planes that kept dropping bombs on my head! However, rage and confusion turned to evil grin as I found the AA-guns and used them to good effect!
Three years later, I landed my dream job working at DICE on Battlefield 2! Having worked as Animator and Designer on Battlefield 2, it was especially satisfying to be Lead Designer on Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand and bring some of the most classic maps from Battlefield 2 into Battlefield 3.
When I finished up Back to Karkand, I already knew I needed to start on our next themed expansion pack for release in June. This time, I really wanted to expand Battlefield 3 and give players even more experiences to choose from. But I didn’t know how to approach it.
Then I remembered those nights at my sponsor’s Internet café, where I and my clan for hours on end practiced the best way to attack a well-defended room, using only a few grenades and the business end of our rifles.
Defenders of Ardania, a next generation multiplayer tower defense strategy game, is now available for download from the Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Although Defenders of Ardania includes a single-player portion, the focus of the game is undoubtedly multiplayer, where two to four players can take each other on or compete against AI opponents via Internet, LAN, XBox LIVE or PSN. The multiplayer component offers three different game modes where players can assume either the defensive or offensive sides --or both!
Content:Defenders of Ardania Price: 1200 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Defenders of Ardania is a next generation tower defense game set in the fantasy world of Majesty, where you can take control over both the defending- and the attacking sides. The game is set in the fantasy world of Majesty with 3 different playable races, each with their own, distinguishable locations, towers, and units. Its innovative new game concept adds a RTS element and takes the popular genre to a new level. Multiplayer offers three different game modes with the players assuming either the defensive or the offensive sides – or both!
Ubisoft and Demiurge Studios' Shoot Many Robots, a downloadable side scrolling four-player co-op run-n'-gun RPG, is now available via the Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 and PSN for the PlayStation 3. Check out the free demo!
The game stars P. Walter Tugnut, a lovable hillbilly who’s been stock-piling his RV with guns, ammo, and beer awaiting the robot apocalypse. In case you’re wondering, the “P” stands for “Pickles” - but don’t call him that.
Content:Shoot Many Robots Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Shoot Many Robots is a 4-player co-op run-n’-gun action game starring robot slayer and gun aficionado, P. Walter Tugnut. From a gun that shoots garden gnome missiles to a tutu that boosts speed and damage, there are hundreds of crazy guns and gear to unlock that boost Walter’s stats – not to mention, make him look pretty. You and three friends can team up to exterminate a zillion robots while progressing through tons of missions, facing uncomfortably epic bosses, and leveling up along the way.
Shoot Many Robots has 12 achievements worth a total of 200 gamer points for your Xbox LIVE Gamercard. You can view the complete list of achievements here.
Check out the official first look gameplay video of Shoot Many Robots which I have embedded in this story, and don't forget to add the game to your wishlist if you think it looks like fun!
Call of Duty ELITE March DLC drops. "Black Ice", "Black Box", and "Negotiator", are now available exclusively for Xbox 360.
Elite Drop 4: Black Box
Battle beside a downed Air Force One in "Black Box." Multi-level homes overlook the neighboring streets, creating a deadly kill zone for players on the ground. With clear sight lines from house to house, however, snipers are far from safe, with counter-sniping an ever-present threat to their dominance. Those that prefer close-quarters combat can succeed in the tight confines of the crashed airplane or in hunting down enemies posted up within any of the surrounding homes
Elite Drop 5: Black Ice
Shred ice from aboard your snowmobile as you infiltrate a diamond mine in the Special Ops mission, "Black Ice." Melt more than snow when you plant high-grade explosives to shut the mine down forever. This marks the first time Special Ops has been made downloadable online in franchise history.
Elite Drop 6: Negotiator
Cash in all your karma as you head to India for high-stakes hostage extraction in "Negotiator," an all-new Special Ops mission in which you’ll breach-and-clear rooms and navigate surface streets to secure the safety of your VIPs. This marks the first time Special Ops has been made downloadable online in franchise history
Non paid Elite members will have the opportunity to download all six DLC drops March 20th, first on Xbox LIVE. You can check out the trailer for the MW3 Collection 1 below.
Modern Warfare 3’s Content Season will include more than 20 pieces of brand new content over the 9 month season. The full calendar of content is outlined here - http://www.callofduty.com/contentcalendar.
If you are already a Call of Duty Elite Premium member, the above content and all previous content is included as part of you subscription. For more of 360-HQ's previous coverage on MW3 please visit our Xbox 360 Games database/hub linked below.
Battlefield have announced three new themed Battlefield 3 expansion packs are on the way! Get up close and personal with "Battlefield 3: Close Quarters" which will be arriving this June, then get ready for all-out vehicle warfare with Battlefield 3: Armored Kill arriving this fall (featuring the biggest map in Battlefield history!)
Each expansions carries its own theme, with Close Quarters focusing on "tight infantry gameplay in tight indoor environments," the addition of four new maps and 10 new weapons, and the Frostbite 2 engine's "HD destruction," creating new ways to play the game.
Key Features:
Get plunged into frantic and relentless infantry combat
Check your corners as death can come from any angle
HD destruction lets you reduce entire locales to ruin
Earn new weapons and bring them back to the base game
Complete new assignments and equip unique dog tags
Play in new ways, mixing team play and instant action
The HD Destruction in Close Quarters lets players riddle the environment with bullets allowing everything from furniture to plaster to be shot to pieces resulting in a pile up on the floor.
The tight level design and many opportunities for vertical gameplay mean players will need to bring their A game if they want to stay alive in this highly competitive theater of war.
UPDATE:
Watch the Battlefield 3: Close Quarters gameplay trailer just below and then head over to our games database to view some of the latest screenshots.
This fall will also bring the expansion pack Battlefield 3: Armored Kill. Featuring all-out vehicle warfare with new tanks, ATV’s, and mobile artillery, it also includes the biggest map in Battlefield history. Come winter, it is time for the fourth expansion pack Battlefield 3: End Game.
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