The official Battlefield Blog has details on plans for 'Kit Upgrade' DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. On Wednesday, April 21st it will hit the Xbox 360, allowing players to change how their soldiers look on the battlefield, for $5.50. Exact release dates for the PC and PS3 have not yet been announced.
There are 4 kits, one for each class, specific unique uniforms and camouflaged weapons gives you a visual edge. I mean what good is a camouflaged soldier if the gun sticks out like a sore thumb?
Recruited strictly from other high-level Special Operations units such as Delta Force and Spetsnaz, the Special Activities groups – SPECACT - are the elite of the elite, used mainly for covert operations and other high-risk missions in areas where conventional troops cannot be used.
With the 4 kit specific unique uniforms and the camouflaged SPECACT personal M16A2, UMP-45, MG3 and M95 SNIPER you have a visual edge on the Battlefield, showing that you’re a force to be reckoned with. The pack also includes 12 new awards and 4 Achievements.
Ignition Entertainment today revealed that Blacklight: Tango Down, their recently announced multiplayer shooter, will have a co-op mode called Black Ops.
Ignition Entertainment, a UTV Media Communication Company, and Zombie Studios have announced that Blacklight: Tango Down, the upcoming downloadable first person shooter, will include a full co-operative gameplay component – entitled “Black Ops” – in addition to the game’s already robust line-up of competitive multiplayer game modes.
Blacklight: Tango Down is an AAA-quality first person shooter that will be released exclusively through digital download channels for an expected price of $15. The game will be released this summer through Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®Store for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and on personal computer.
“With Blacklight: Tango Down, we are raising the bar for what gamers can expect from DLC, with the kind of experience that traditionally is found in a $60, AAA retail game,” said Ajay Chadha, President of Worldwide Publishing, Ignition Entertainment. “Cooperative play is a critical part of today’s multiplayer experience, and Blacklight: Tango Down will deliver on this fun and dramatic way to play alongside three of your friends. This kind of elite content is what separates Blacklight: Tango Down from other DLC and makes it the most fully featured downloadable-only shooter available on any console or PC.”
The cooperative “Black Ops” portion of Blacklight: Tango Down is a truly intense and exhilarating experience where players deploy as the Blacklight faction, fighting their way through the dilapidated streets of Balik to confront and defeat soldiers from the opposing faction, The Order.
Black Ops missions will increase the deep replay value of the game by offering upgrades, character growth and more to those who choose to take the cooperative battle. Upon completing Black Ops missions, a player will receive a completion score that varies based on the difficulty setting, overall performance and time the player needed to complete the coop mission. Players can then replay the scenarios, perfecting their assault, in a quest to reach the top of the Black Ops leader boards, gain additional XP to grow their character, and earn new weapon tags.
New "Eco-friendly" packaging beginning later this year to have digital manuals only.
Do you like that new-game smell you get when first breaking the shrinkwrap off of a new game and flipping through the manual? Well, if you also like Ubisoft games, that pleasure will be a thing of the past. In order to go green, Ubi has announced that they will be dumping paper game manuals entirely for their games, and instead will instruct players to view their in-game digital manual to read up on their newly purchased games.
Yes, not everyone reads game manuals, but it is sometimes nice to have one to refer to while you're playing a game. There's that whole smell thing also.
Official announcement below:
Today Ubisoft announced an environmental initiative to eliminate paper game manuals, replacing them with an in-game digital manual for all titles on PlayStation 3 (PS3) system and Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The program, the first initiative of its kind in the video game industry, launches worldwide with Shaun White Skateboarding this holiday 2010.
Ubisoft's digital game manuals will provide multiple benefits for the player and the environment. Including the game manual directly in the game will offer the player easier and more intuitive access to game information, as well as allow Ubisoft to provide gamers with a more robust manual. Ubisoft internal data shows that producing one ton of paper used in Ubisoft's game manuals consumes an average of two tons of wood from 13 trees, with a net energy of 28 million BTU's (equivalent to average heating and energy for one home/year), greenhouse gases equivalent of over 6,000 lbs of CO2, and wastewater of almost 15,000 gallons.
"It's pretty cool that Ubisoft is making a conscious effort to go green with its new video game packaging," commented Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White. "I'm excited for my new skateboarding game to come out and stoked that it will be the very first Ubisoft game to be part of their green packaging initiatives."
In addition to Ubisoft's efforts to decrease paper usage in its game packaging, Ubisoft has partnered with Technimark, Inc. to release the entertainment industry's most environmentally-responsible DVD case for all of its future PC titles in North America. The 100 percent-recycled polypropylene "ecoTech" DVD case will make its debut with Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction PC video game on April 27, 2010. Ubisoft has featured digital game manuals in its PC titles distributed in North America since March 2010.
"Ubisoft is often recognized for making great games, but it's a special privilege to be the industry leader at saving trees," said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. "Eco-friendly initiatives are important to the global community and introducing in-game digital manuals on Xbox 360 and PS3 is just the latest example of Ubisoft's ongoing commitment to being a more environmentally conscious company."
The guys over at "digiex.net" have leaked a list of Xbox LIVE Arcade games which are coming to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360.
In the leak they have published screenshots of Crazy Taxi, Quake Arena Arcade and the new Sonic, running on a DEV KIT!
The following unreleased Xbox Live Arcade games set to appear on your Xbox 360 sometime soon!
Coming Soon to Xbox LIVE Arcade
- Crazy Taxi
- Quake Arena Arcade
- Metal Slug XX
- NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM
- RAYSTORM HD
- Sonic Adventure
- The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
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The guys from ConsoleSource have just given the team at 360-HQ the opportunity to review Talismoon's new Whisper Legacy Fans. A big thank you to the guys from ConsoleSource for sending us a sample to review for all our members here.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Banish heat forever with the new Whisper Legacy. Sporting a newly designed, front mounted "Nitro Switch", the Whisper Legacy makes it easier than ever to expel unwanted heat. The Whisper Legacy continues to come with blue LED lights installed, although you can use no LEDs or switch to red or green lights (also included).
The Whisper Legacy also enjoys the status of being the "quietest rated fan" that Talismoon has ever produced thanks to the newest mechanism available, a sealed oil chamber that provides less friction than ball bearings.
Every Whisper Legacy comes with a bonus: the "Abzorber" noise vibration reduction system, in every package. To help reduce DVD drive vibration noise.
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42,000 hour lifetime - nearly 5 years of continuous uptime
Interchangable Blue, Green, and Red lights included (blue lights installed)
68 CFM per fan in "Nitro Mode"
Full color instructions included
Bonus "Abzorber" vibration noise reduction system included
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Yes, not everyone reads game manuals, but it is sometimes nice to have one to refer to while you're playing a game. There's that whole smell thing also.
Banish heat forever with the new Whisper Legacy. Sporting a newly designed, front mounted "Nitro Switch", the Whisper Legacy makes it easier than ever to expel unwanted heat. The Whisper Legacy continues to come with blue LED lights installed, although you can use no LEDs or switch to red or green lights (also included).
