While the Call of Duty series has long been known for its epic singleplayer campaigns, that is something the Battlefield series has lacked. Enter Battlefield 3: The latest in the venerable shooter series, which also promises an epic singleplayer campaign in addition to its multiplayer components. Does Battlefield 3’s singleplayer campaign live up to the hyper? In creating a singleplayer component, did EA DICE sacrifice multiplayer quality? Find out, After the break! Read More
Electronic Arts has revealed three new screenshots from their Back to Karkand DLC pack for Battlefield 3. The Back to Karkand DLC pack will be available this December.
Bethesda Softworks has released a really cool new podcast/dev diary on their upcoming RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The piece can be found over at the game’s official website and features Bethesda Game Studios artists, Matt Carofano, Noah Berry, Christiane Meister and Dennis Mejillones and an extended video featuring the striking world art of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Rocksteady Studios have announced that the Games for Windows PC version of Batman: Arkham City will be available in North America beginning November 22, in Australia beginning November 23, in France and Benelux beginning November 24, and in other European territories beginning November 25.
Mad Catz has announced a new version of their popular R.A.T. gaming mouse – the Cyborg R.A.T.7 Contagion Gaming Mouse. Compatible with both PC and Mac computers, the R.A.T.7 Contagion features all the customization of the original mouse, with an upgraded 6400 dpi sensor to boot. The mouse is available now at the Apple Store for $99.95.
“We’re excited to introduce this special edition of our award winning gaming mouse to Apple online customers.” said Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. “The Cyborg brand is gaining traction and we expect it to accelerate as we continue to grow the product line.”
GamingShogun.com had the pleasure of hanging out with cast and crew of the upcoming gamer comedy “Noobz” at a sound stage in Santa Monica, CA. Lead Actors Matt Shively (True Jackson), Zelda Williams (Don’t Look Up), Moises Arias (Love Bites), director/Actor Blake Freeman, and Jason Mewes (Mallrats, Clerks II) spoke with us about the film as well as their views on gaming in pop culture. Also, special guest Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) talks about, well, Casper Van Dien! Thanks so much to everyone for sitting down and chatting with us and a special thanks to Jim Redner for showing us around!
Recoil Games has announced that its side-scrolling platformer, Rochard, will be released on the PC platform on November 15th, 2011. The game will be available for download through Steam, Valve’s digital distribution platform, for $9.99.
“Rochard is a fun, original experience designed to test players’ wits and coordination,” said Samuli Syvähuoko, Founder of Recoil Games, Ltd. “We’re incredibly excited to bring this game to PC users, since it’s a natural fit for gamers across consoles as well as on PC. We can’t wait to see PC gamers take Rochard through his adventure and watch the fun ways they use the game’s mechanics to manipulate gravity and solve all of the challenges and puzzles.”
Early this morning, Autodesk released a statement announcing its acquisition of “certain assets” and individuals from GRIP Entertainment. GRIP Entertainment is an artificial intelligence game middleware technology company.
“The acquisition accelerates Autodesk’s strategy to offer a more complete, simplified solution for the creation of believable interactive characters,” said Marc Stevens, Autodesk vice president, Games. “The technology and expertise acquired complement Autodesk’s existing Gameware offerings, including Autodesk Kynapse artificial intelligence middleware. This transaction will enable us to offer game developers a more comprehensive AI solution.”
Alluded to in the statement was that Autodesk would use these assets in their 3D modeling and animation software to create more believable characters.
Electronic Arts has released a new gameplay trailer for Battlefield 3’s Back to Karakand DLC pack. Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is out December 2011 at no extra charge with your pre-order, or available the same date at $14.99/1200 Microsoft Points.
When first looking at Creative Labs new ZiiSound T6 wireless speaker system, it is not difficult to see how similar it looks to their GigaWorks T3 speaker system. It seems as though the GigaWorks T3 was the design on which the newer ZiiSound T6 was based. However, the ZiiSound T6 does feature several notable differences. First is that, unlike the GigaWorks T3, the ZiiSound T6 features four satellite speakers – two on each speaker pylon. These satellite speakers can be rotated for increased virtual surround sound. The ZiiSound T6 also comes with an IR remote to control the volume, audio source, and off/on switch.
Setting up the ZiiSound T6 in wired or wireless modes is simple. Just plug in the sub-woofer and control pod to your PC and off you go. You can hook up the speaker system as a fully-wired system – in which case you will be privy to some better sound quality. Unfortunately, the Bluetooth signal used in the wireless transmission features some loss of quality – especially on the higher end of the spectrum. On the low end, however, the ZiiSound T6 features a lot of bass. In fact, it can very easily overpower the rest of the spectrum. When being tested in a small home office space, I had my bass knob (which is inconveniently located on the back of the sub-woofer) set almost to nill for a comfortable listening experience. When needing some extra punch when playing id Software’s RAGE, however, I cranked it up a couple notches. Regardless of wired or wireless in terms of interfacing with your PC, you will have these cables attaching the satellite speakers to the sub-woofer. While the audio inputs sending information to the ZiiSound T6 can be wireless, the satellite speakers themselves are all wired, which is kind of a bummer.
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Creative Labs did pull of something that was light-years beyond brilliant with the speaker system: They included a wireless USB dongle! This means that you can plug the USB dongle into your PC or Mac and stream audio to the system. Or, you can have the speaker system hardwired to one PC and set the dongle up on another, selecting between inputs via the remote control. Additionally, Creative Labs sells an iPod-compatible wireless dongle that will allow you to further increase the number of devices able to stream to the speaker system. There is a lot of customization for the user here, and we appreciate that.
Overall, the Creative Labs ZiiSound T6 wireless speaker system features good audio quality along with a nice amount of customization in terms of how you want to utilize its wireless capabilities. Unfortunately, the ZiiSound T6’s price is a bit higher than we would like to see for the product — especially considering how cheap the remote control feels. At Creative Labs official website, they sell the speaker system for $399.99. If you already have a wireless speaker system that you are happy with, you probably don’t need to purchase one of these. If you are a new buyer in the market for a wireless sound system, however, you could do a lot worse than the ZiiSound T6.
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