Codemasters has released some launch screens for its newly-released Monte Carlo track pack for DiRT 3. The new track pack features eight new rally stages with various weather and terrain conditions. The Monte Carlo track pack retails for 800 Microsoft Points on the Games for Windows LIVE and Xbox LIVE Marketplaces, and for $9.99 on the PlayStation Network.
Wargaming.net has announced a new update for their popular online actioner, World of Tanks, which adds the US Army Tank Destroyer vehicle line. Aside from the new vehicle line, the update brings two new premium light tanks as well as replaces the M26 Pershing tanks with the M46 Patton.
“We constantly keep polishing the game balance, and updating World of Tanks to 6.5 is yet another important step in this direction,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “That’s just the first of the two American TDs branches we’ll be implementing, so we will bring even more strategic satisfaction to our players in the nearest future.”
YouTube uploader Brett Driver has uploaded a fairly well-done teaser trailer for a Left 4 Dead inspired fan-flick he would like to someday make.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its highly-popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, has gone somewhat free-to-play. As it stands now, any person with a Battle.net account can download the “Starter Edition” of WoW and play any character up to level 20.
The following restrictions are placed on all Starter Edition Accounts:
– A level cap of 20.
– A maximum of 10 gold.
– Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
– Unable to trade via the Auction House, mailbox, or player-to-player.
– In-game access to public chat channels unavailable. Players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper.
– Characters will be unable to create or join guilds.
– Characters are not able to send whispers to other characters unless they have been added to the characters’ friends lists or have received a whisper from a character first.
– Characters will not be able to invite other players into a party.
– Characters will not be able to join parties with other characters above level 20.
– Voice chat disabled on Starter Edition accounts.
– Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts.
– Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
– RealID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts.
It looks as though Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming action-RPG, Bastion, will be kicking off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade program for XBLA titles on July 20, 2011. Bastion puts players in the boots of “The Kid” who must fight off all sorts of creatures and badness in order to save his civilization. Bastion will retail for 1200 Microsoft Points.
Hi-Rez Studios has released the first gameplay trailer for their upcoming rebirth of the Tribes video game series, Tribes: Ascend, as well as some new screenshots. The game is planned to be a free-to-play online shooter and is scheduled for released this fall.
MGM and a couple other companies whom I cannot make out on the bottom of the teaser poster have released a teaser poster for their upcoming Bill & Ted 3. Not much is known about the upcoming film, save that it will involve both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprising their classic roles.
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Razer has unveiled some themed lines of Transformers: Dark of the Moon peripherals, just in time for the film’s release. The line comes in multiple flavors of their highly-acclaimed Death Adder gaming mouse series as well as a themed Vespula mouse pad and even laptop sleeves.
Checkout the full page of Transformers-themed Razer products.
Capcom has released the official launch trailer for their newly-released title, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, which was released for the Nintendo 3DS platform.
OnLive has announced that they are hosting a huge multiplayer event on Friday, July 1, between 3pm and 5pm PDT. The event will take place in the realm of THQ’s shooter, Homefront, and will be available to subscribers of the service’s Homefront Large-Scale Warfare Multiplayer PlayPack or PlayPass services. The event will see the rewarding of a multitude of prizes to participants. You can find out more about OnLive including how to join over at the service’s official website.
1. Whether you have Homefront Large-Scale Warfare Multiplayer through the OnLive PlayPack Bundle or a PlayPass, just sign in and launch the game this Friday, July 1, between 3:00pm and 5:00 pm PDT (6:00pm and 8:00 pm EDT).
2. Make sure you set your permissions to allow spectators to chat with you. For instructions on how to set these permissions, read the”How do I control whether spectators can chat with me while I’m playing” section at http://bit.ly/kfxpDh . The THQ scouts will be contacting players by voice chat, so if you can’t hear, you can’t win.
3. Play either Battle Commander TDM or Ground Control multiplayer modes and bring on your best shots. Scouts going by the player Tags THQCraig and THQJeremy will be spectating and awarding prizes as outlined below, as well as randomly doling out Homefront swag to those bold enough to join the fight.
· Resistance Fighter of the Day – Astro A40 Headset & MIXAMP 5.8
· Best Killstreak – AR. Drone Parrot
· Best Vehicular Kill – OnLive Game Controller
· Best Sniper Kill – Free Full PlayPass
· Best Run-and-Gun Player – Free Full PlayPass
· Most Embarrassing Death – Free Full PlayPass
· Best Grenade Kill – Free Full PlayPass
