4 classic battlefield maps re-made in frostbite 2 for Battlefield 3, it includes 10 new weapons, 4 vehicles, 1 new game-mode and 5 new trophies.

It is free to all players who bought the "Limited Edition" (new) free of charge or £11.99 for those who could not obtain one.

Developer: DICE

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Release Date: December 6th (source: link)

Maps:

Strike at Karkand:

Gulf of Oman:

Wake Island:

Sharqi Penninsula:

Game Modes:

Conquest Assualt:

The Attackers have more tickets than the defenders who hold all flags the attackers must take back enough flags to start a ticket bleed for the defenders in order to win.

Weapons:

Famas:

L85A2:

MP5:

PP-19:

QBZ-95B:

MG36:

QBB-95:

MK3A1:

L96:

QBU-88:

Vehicles:

• F-35B Jet
• BTR-90 IFV
• DPV Buggy
• Skidloader (Forklift)

Trophies:

Complete Warrior (Silver)

"Got a kill with the following weapons in a life: Assualt Rifle, Jet, Tank"

Like A Boss (Silver)

"Got a kill with the skidloader"

Jaws (Bronze)

"Took a swim in the Oman Hotel swimming pool"

Third Tour (Bronze)

"Got a kill with each of the following vehicles: the BTR-90, DPV and F-35"

Gunslinger (Bronze)

"Got 10 kills with each of the ten Back to Karkand weapons"

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EA have now announced when we can expect to see the new maps, vehicles, and weapons that are all included in this add-on, and we won’t be waiting long.

December 6th is the date they gave us for both the Americas and Europe, although since the PlayStation Store updates a day later in Europe, it may actually be the 7th before it shows up in your region.

Speaking of the PlayStation Store, that’s the only place you’ll be able to find it for the first week of release, per the previously announced agreement EA made with Sony to release all add-ons on the PS3 first. You can expect the Xbox 360 and PC versions to launch the following week on the 13th. Regardless of platform, the expansion will be free if you purchased the Limited Edition of the Battlefield 3.

Has anyone had a chance to play the PC or PS3 versions of the game since the patch went live on those platforms?

Source: US PS Blog

So as you can see from the above screenshot, the game looks lovely. There are however some serious flaws in the multiplayer game.

Overall it’s still first and foremost a Battlefield game, it requires strategy and teamwork to complete and win a round, what ever flavour you play: Rush, Conquest, Squad Rush, Team Deathmatch, or Squad Death Metch. Big maps and upto 24 players per server can make for some astounding games, myself and RavingZombie have had some excellent rush and conquest games this weekend. Sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating, but never boring, and thanks to mine and Raving’s excellent gameplay, we’ve usually won.

The Game Godes:
Rush – my favourite
Gold Rush in Battlefield: Bad Company and Rush in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 are game modes introduced in the Bad Company series. The objective of the game is for the attacking team to destroy the defending team’s crates (gold crates in Battlefield: Bad Company, M-COM Stations in Battlefield: Bad Company 2). Attackers receive reinforcement tickets at the start of the game and will lose if they run out of tickets. The reinforcement tickets are restored by destroying both crates at one defending base. Each defender team’s base has a pair of crates, and when both objectives have been destroyed, the map is expanded, making room for a new base with a new set of crates where the defenders have to fall back. This process is repeated until the last defending base is lost.

Conquest:
The aim of the Conquest game mode is to capture neutral (usually white or no-flag) or enemy flags and hold them. Once captured, flags serves as a spawn point for both infantry and vehicles. Teams must hold flags and kill opposing team members to reduce the enemy ticket count. Once a team ticket count is reduced to zero, the other team wins. In Battlefield 1942, ticket loss depends on the type of Conquest mode:

Head-On – Enemy tickets start reducing once a team holds over half of the map’s flags
Assault – Enemy tickets only reduce once every flag on a map has been captured by a team

Ticket Loss

Ticket loss, also referred to as ticket bleeding, is the state where a team constantly loses reinforcement tickets due to the opposing team holding more or all flags. This is a strategy employed by many teams in order to avoid lengthy periods of fighting, although if the current team re-captured flags, the ticket loss may be incurred on the opposing team.
History

Conquest mode made its popular debut in Battlefield 1942 and featured as a staple online game mode, featuring in every Battlefield game. However, this trend was broken with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company, although a conquest mode was quickly released as a free downloadable content. It returned in Battlefield 1943 and as one of the many game modes of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Along with rush, it is the premier game mode for Battlefield 3. Also, Conquest Assault will be included for maps in the Back to Karkand map pack for Battlefield 3 in December.
Trivia

Conquest was the only game mode in Battlefield games until “Capture The Flag” was introduced in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, although there were several variants in Battlefield 2.
A variant of the Conquest game mode called “Titan” was introduced in Battlefield 2142, in which both teams compete to take and hold missile silos instead of flags. This change added a more story-like appearance to the gameplay of the Conquest game-mode, with desperate fighting inside the Titans ensuing once one team gains entry to the opposing team’s Titan.
Conquest mode in Battlefield Play4Free works much more differently than previous games. Instead of having “ticket bleeding” as in previous games, now there’s a score limit that one team must reach just by holding any number of flags, in which more flags held by one team earns them more points.

Squad Rush: My other Favourite
Same as Rush but smaller…
Up to 4 players per team (1 Squad).
1 M-COM Station per base.
Maps are much smaller than on Rush.
Only 20 reinforcement tickets for attackers.
Exclusion of any vehicles

Team Death Match:
This mode has a player cap of 24 on all platforms, meaning there will be two teams of 12 pitted against each other. The mode is entirely isolated from use of any vehicle, like Squad Rush. The objective of the game mode is to reach a certain amount of kills, like in Squad Deathmatch.

Squad Deathmatch:
In this game type, 4 squads (labeled Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta) will fight each other on a map. The first team to achieve 50 enemy kills wins the match. Instead of spawning in a set base like in Rush or Conquest, Squad Deathmatch has players spawn in either a random spawn point around the map or on their squadmates. There is also an IFV – always an M3A3 Bradley – in the center or near the center of the map and it is labeled on the HUD and the minimap with an icon marking its location.

Gameplay relies on good teamwork for each team to play their best. A well balanced squad that communicates well has the best chance at winning a round, where as a team full of Recon Kit wielders may suffer, but this is not always the case. The light tank proves very useful to the squad that decides to capture it as it has three machine gun (the top mounted M2 Browning and the two side-mounted firing ports) positions to cover the vehicle as the driver moves about toting the main 30mm chain gun. It is recommended that each squad-mate has a different Vehicle Specialization, with the driver having an active Specialization like the Alternate Weapon Package or the Smoke Countermeasures Package.

So now the important bit: The Problems With Battlefield 3

1. Unlocks:
The unlocks are great and add a huge amount of choice to the game, but it’s flawed and in a bad way.
You start out with a simple main weapon in all the varying classes, both the USA and PLR have different weapons too, making the range of availabe unlocks absolutely massive. The problem is that when you play as one side (USA assault for example), you’ll start to unlock some goodies like heavy barrel (increased damage and vertical recoil), red dot, holo scope, acog 4x scope, grenade launcher, sniper scope and more.
The problem is when you change sides to PLR, you have to unlock everything again! Change main weapon – yep you guessed it, you have to unlock everything again, change class… unlock everything again.
This makes for tens of thousands of weapon combinations, but it also makes changing weapon type or class very very frustrating.

2. Squad System:
Finding a decent server with space for one or more friends is a nightmare, try finding a server with free space for four people where you are all in the same squad, hell, getting on the same team is a challenge on it’s own. This is where squad play falls down, DICE would be better advised to rent servers to console owners, at least this way you can kick or switch players and make room for you and friends.

3. Voice chat:
Some improvements have been made since the realease of the game, but talking to friends in the same squad is sometimes impossible.

4. Lag:
Again improvements have been made by DICE to reduce the rubberbanding, but it’s still not entirely perfect, and the more players you join with (squad play) the more lag you will get.

5. Helicopters, Jets and land vehicles:
Helicopters were hard to control in Bad Company 2, and they’re even worse, much worse in Battlefield 3. It’s a common sight to see a pilot take off with a chopper full of people and crash within seconds killing everyone on board. Jets are easier to control, but are severly limited to basic weapons and gadgets until you get enough kills to add extra’s. It’s a similar system to the unlock system for various classes and loadouts. You have to unlock as much as you can for one vehicle, then do it all again for other vehicles. Same with tanks and IFV’s. The unlocks take time, then you have to do it for the other team.

6. Bullet Damage:
This is far too high, and more often than not you’ll die and not know where the kill came from, let alone have time to react and defend yourself. So be prepared to die… A LOT.
This causes a problem in that people will camp rather than run/rush around trying to support team members.

Overall:
While the game is still fun to play, it’s very frustrating for all the reasons listed above, and the biggest problem… issues 1, 5 and 6 will never be fixed, DICE wanted the game this way and this is how it will stay.
This wont stop me from playing the game, but I definitely wont play it as much as Bad Company 1 or 2, and if I dont play it as much, most other people will loose interest too.

Over and out. Dazbobaby: Die hard battlefield fan.

He’s on fire!

When I was young I played a ton of NBA Hangtime on my Super Nintendo, I loved it. I’m not that big into sports games, but NBA Hangtime’s fast-paced and exaggerated take on the sport was very fun. After doing a little research a year or two ago, I realized that NBA Hangtime was developed by Midway, the same developer behind the super popular NBA Jam. This alleviated the grief I had whenever I’d hear people callout NBA Jam so fondly, but not NBA Hangtime.

I guess once Midway stopped developing the series (and created NBA Hangtime) the series went through a long period of staleness. That changed last year when Electronic Arts released the critically acclaimed NBA Jam for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. This year they have a follow-up in NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, a sequel appearing on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition was developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports this week on XBLA and PSN.

The demo only had two teams: the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat, a familiar match up.

These sorts of video games are always better when you have another person so I was lucky that when I decided to play the demo for NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, I had a friend over. We only had a few minutes of gameplay so we had to get acquainted with the controls quickly. I was a little overwhelmed at first, but once I realized the movements I should focus on I was much more comfortable. Trying to steal the ball, blocking shots, using turbo, this was all familiar to my friend and I, and it seemed more effective than it used to be.

Once we got used to the controls we became effective at defense, but also offense. We took many jump shots and began learning the timing necessary to hit three pointers. But it’s not NBA Jam without outlandish dunks and On Fire Edition delivers. We saw many different dunks, but they repeated often; we were only able to play as the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat so I wonder if some dunks are character or team specific.

The game looked really nice. The character models looked like their real-world counterparts with the exception of their cartoonish proportions. Everyone had an oversized head which conveyed expressions very well, especially during dunks. The announcer is another memorable part of the past games and again, On Fire Edition doesn’t disappoint.

Okay, now you guys are just showing off.

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition was a riot. My friend and I played three matches; the first was very close, the next game my friend blew me out, but I blew him out in the final game. EA Canada basically took the NBA Jam format and updated everything around it. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition appears to be just as fun as the past games and well worth the fifteen dollar price tag.

Links:

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
Electronic Arts

Over the weekend, hardware specifications for one of the PC’s most anticipated games of 2011 appeared on GameStop’s website. They’ve since been removed, but the internet never forgets.

The specifications, which may or may not be final, read as follows:

Minimum

Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7

Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHzRAM2GB

Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card

Recommended

Hard Drive Space: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

OS: Windows 7 64-bit

Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPURAM 4GB

Video Card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, GeForce GTX 460, Radeon Radeon HD 6850

For something that looks so amazing with the detail cranked up, if these are legit those recommended specs are indeed a little steep. The minimums, though? Not bad. Unless you’ve got an old graphics card that can’t do DirectX 10. But then, there’s always a game that comes along which forces people to upgrade, and this may well be it.

Seeing as these appeared on a retailer listing and not as part of an official announcement, we’ve contacted EA for confirmation on these, and will update if we hear back.

GameStop lists minimum and recommended specs for BF3 on PC [VG247]

EA has posted the official list of all the pre-order bonus items for the Battlefield 3: Limited Edition, which is set for simultaneous release with the regular version of the game. The company says that every item on the list will be available by August.

Due to the complaints it received for the Physical Warfare Pack exclusive some time ago, EA has since changed the availability of the DLC by allowing every player (including those who do not pre-order it) to gain access to it at a later date at absolutely no charge.

Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand

• What it is: An entire themed expansion pack the size of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam.
• Where to get: You will be eligible to download this expansion pack (once it is released) if you pre-order Battlefield 3: Limited Edition at any retailer all over the world.
• Available: Release date of Back to Karkand TBC. This expansion pack is not on the disc and is not available day one.
• Value: At no extra charge with every pre-order of Battlefield 3: Limited Edition. You will be able to buy it separately if you don’t pre-order (date and price TBC).
• More info: In this blog post. More to come.

Physical Warfare Pack

• What it is: A set of three time-based exclusive items and one early weapon unlock for Battlefield 3.
• Where to get: At select retailers all over the world when you pre-order Battlefield 3: Limited Edition.
• Available: Day 1 if you pre-order. If you do not pre-order, you will get access to this content at no extra charge at a later date.
• Value: At no extra charge with your pre-order at select retailers.
• More info: In this blog post.

SPECACT Kit Upgrade

• What it is: A set of 8 multiplayer skins, one for each class and side in Battlefield 3.
• Where to get: At select retailers all over the world when you pre-order Battlefield 3: Limited Edition.
• Available: Day 1.
• Value: At no extra charge with your pre-order at select retailers.

Dog Tag Pack

• What it is: A set of 5 unique in-game dog tags to choose from. Dog tags in Battlefield 3 serve as your in-game signature, displayed on screen every time you defeat an enemy. You can also claim the dog tag of your enemies via skillful stealth knife takedowns. This pre-order exclusive pack gives you 5 unique dog tag designs to complement the standard range in the game.
• Where to get: At select retailers all over the world when you pre-order Battlefield 3: Limited Edition.
• Available: Day 1.
• Value: At no extra charge with your pre-order at select retailers.

Avatar Battlefield 3 Gear

• What it is: Battlefield 3 gear for your Xbox 360 avatar.
• Where to get: At select retailers all over the world when you pre-order Battlefield 3: Limited Edition.
• Available: Day 1.
• Value: At no extra charge with your pre-order at select retailers.

Shotgun and Beret for Battlefield Play4Free

• What it is: An 870S shotgun and a beret for in-game use in our play-for-free title Battlefield Play4Free.
• Where to get: By pre-ordering Battlefield 3: Limited Edition on Origin.
• Available: Day 1.
• Value: At no extra charge with your pre-order on Origin.

via ea

PlayStation Store (via PS3, PSP and Media Go)

Hey all, it’s another PSN ‘Head’s Up’date and another week of content for you – what’s on the agenda for today?

Well, the PSN Loves DLC Sale is still in full swing, so if you’ve yet to check out what’s on offer, please do so!

Loads of fun stuff today – if you missed Dungeon Hunter, which published just before our outage, it’s now available in Trial and Unlock flavour, so be sure to give it a whirl. We’ve also got EA’s new twin-stick shooter (from the creators of Greed Corp) Gatling Gears for you to get your shoot’em up fix.

Motor Toon GP2 PSone also hits the Store today, which is one of your requested titles. Okay, it might not be Tombi but it’s a step in the right direction…

We’ve also got a few select bits of DLC, some avatars and a few XMB themes for you to brighten up your PS3, so check those out below too.

Short and sweet from me this week, I’ll be around for some comments this afternoon and more tomorrow.

Enjoy!

PSN Loves DLC SPECIAL OFFERS (until 6th July)

Ghostlight Ltd

Agarest: Generations of War Downloadable Content

• Power Up Set (was £0.79/€0.99 – now £0.40/€0.49)
• Animal Set (was £0.79/€0.99 – now £0.40/€0.49)
• 4 God Set (was £0.79/€0.99 – now £0.40/€0.49)
• Meu + Koron Set (was £1.19/€1.49 – now £0.59/€0.79)
• Emperor Set (was £1.19/€1.49 – now £0.59/€0.79)
• Legend Set (was £1.19/€1.49 – now £0.59/€0.79)
• Grim Reaper Set (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £1.19/€1.49)
• Chastity Set (was £1.59/€1.99 – now £0.79/€0.99)
• All Power Set (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £1.19/€1.49)
• Neverland Set (was £2.39/€2.99 – now £1.19/€1.49)
• Enhance Point Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• Gold + Enemy Point Pack (was £2.39/€2.99 – now £1.19/€1.49)
• Additional PP (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• Additional PP + (was £5.49/€6.99 – now £2.99/€3.59)
• Additional TP (was £4.79/€5.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)

2K Games

Mafia II

• Mafia 2 DLC Bundle – all DLC (£12.99/€16.99)
• Mafia 2 DLC3 – Betrayal of Jimmy Pack (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Mafia 2 DLC1 – Jimmy’s Vendetta Pack (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Mafia 2 DLC2 – Joe’s Adventure Pack (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Mafia 2 DLC6 – Renegade Pack (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £0.95/€1.19)
• Mafia 2 DLC4 – Greaser Pack Pack (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £0.95/€1.19)
• Mafia 2 DLC8 – Vegas Pack (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £0.95/€1.19)
• Mafia 2 DLC7 – War Hero Pack (was £1.99/€2.49 – now £0.95/€1.19)

Borderlands

• Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knox (was £5.49/€6.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)
• Borderlands: Claptrap’s Robot Revolution (was £6.29/€7.99 – now £3.19/€3.99)

Rockstar Games

GTA IV

• GTA IV Episodes Bundle (£11.99/€14.99)
• GTA IV – Ballad of Gay Tony (was £15.99/€19.99 – now £7.99/€9.99)

Red Dead Redemption

• Undead Nightmare (was £7.99/€9.99 – now £4.79/€5.99)
• Undead Nightmare Collection (was £15.99/€19.99 – now £9.99/€12.99)

SEGA

Aliens vs. Predator

• Aliens Vs Predator – Bughunt Map Pack (was £4.79/€5.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)
• Aliens Vs Predator – Swarm Map Pack (was £4.79/€5.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)

Sonic & SEGA Allstars Racing

• Metal Sonic & Death Egg Zone (was £4.79/€5.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)
• Ryo Hazuki – Forklift Truck (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)

• Valkyria Chronicles 2 Complete DLC Pack (PSP) (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)
• Vanquish – Tri-Weapon Pack (was £1.59/€1.99 – now £0.95/€1.19)

Ubisoft

• Assassin’s Creed II – Sequence 12+13+Secret Locations (£6.29/€7.99)
• Shaun White Snowboarding - The Hard Pack (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)
• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood – Old West Map Pack (was £7.99/€9.99 – now £4.79/€5.99)
• Far Cry 2 - Fortunes Pack (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)
• Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 – All in One DLC (was £7.99/€9.99 – now £5.49/€6.99)
• Tom Clancy’s EndWar - Escalation Pack (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £2.39/€2.99)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Knives Chau Add-on (was £1.59/€1.99 – now £1.19/€1.49)

Namco Bandai

• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Pigsy’s Perfect 10 (was £7.99/€9.99 – now £5.49/€6.99)

Soul Calibur IV

• Ultimate Weapons Bundle (was £2.39/€2.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• Bonus Weapons Bundle (was £2.39/€2.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• Complete Music Set (was £11.99/€14.99 – now £7.99/€9.99)

Capcom

Lost Planet 2

• Map Pack 1 (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)
• Map Pack 2 (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)

Super Street Fighter IV

• SSF4 Complete Costume Pack (was £15.99/€19.99 – now £7.99/€9.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Brawler Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Challengers Pack 1 (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Challengers Pack 2 (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Classic Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Femme Fatales Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Shadaloo Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)
• SSF4 Ultra Shoryuken Pack (was £3.19/€3.99 – now £1.59/€1.99)

Resident Evil 5

• Untold Stories Bundle (was £8.99/€11.25 – now £4.79/€5.99)
• Versus Mode Pack (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)

Activision

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare – Variety Map Pack (was £7.99/€9.99 – now £3.99/€4.99)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• Stimulus Pack (was £10.99/€13.99 – now £5.49/€6.99)
• Resurgence Pack (was £10.99/€13.99 – now £5.49/€6.99)

SCEE

• KillZone 2 Complete DLC Bundle (was £9.99/€12.99 – now £4.99/€6.19)
• WarHawk Complete DLC Bundle (was £7.99/€11.99 – now £4.79/€5.99)
• Fat Princess – Fat Roles Expansion (was £3.99/€4.99 – now £1.99/€2.49)
• flOw Add-on (was £2.39/€2.99 – now £1.19/€1.49)

Permanent Price Reductions

• Premier Manager (now £7.19/€8.99)

Trial & Unlock (PS3)

• 3D Ultra Mini Golf Adventures 2 (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 7

Availability: All locales

• Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (£9.99/€12.99) Rating: PEGI 16

Availability: Not available in Germany

• Gatling Gears (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Israel, Kuwait and Ukraine

• Star Raiders (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 7

Availability: All locales

Full Games (PS3)

• Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 7

Availability: All locales

• Puzzle Dimension (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

Full Games (PSP)

• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War Of The Lions (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All locales

PSP Essentials

• SSX on Tour (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

PSone Classics (PS3 and PSP)

• Motor Toon Grand Prix 2 (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

Demos (PS3)

• Homefront Multiplayer Demo Rating: PEGI 18

Availability: Not available in Germany

• Motorstorm Apocalypse Multiplayer Demo (1 week only) Rating: PEGI 16

Availability: Not available in Germany

Add-On Game Content (PS3)

Crysis 2

• Decimation Pack (7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 16

Availability: All locales

Dirt 3

• Mini Gymkhana Special Pack (£1.25/€1.59)
• Monte Carlo Track Pack (£6.29/€7.99)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All Locales

FEAR 3

• Multiplayer Unlock Code (£3.19/€3.99) Rating: PEGI 18

Availability: All locales

Hyperdimension Neptunia

• Green Dot (White Heart) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Mochi Stack (Neptune) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Nurse (Black Heart) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Nurse (Green Heart) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Nurse’S Cap (If) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Spring Bouquet 2 (If) (£0.79/€0.99)
• Whipped (Compa) (£0.79/€0.99)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All locales

Marvel Pinball

• Captain America Table (£1.59/€1.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All Locales

ModNation Racers

• Construction Props Pack (£3.99/€4.99)
• Moon Colony Props Pack (£3.99/€4.99)
• Water World Props Pack (£3.99/€4.99)
• Backburn Mod and Kart Pack (£1.39/€1.75)

Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: All locales

MX vs ATV Alive

• Pack 2 (£0.59/€0.75)
• 180 Decals Galaxy (£1.19/€1.49)
• Bikegraphix Fmx (£1.19/€1.49)
• Fox Racing V3 Se (£0.59/€0.75)
• Limited Decal Standard (£1.19/€1.49)
• Yamaha YFZ450 ATV (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All locales

LittleBigPlanet

• Sacktue of Liberty (Re-release 4th July) (free) Rating: PEGI 7

Availability: All Locales

• PlayStation Move Heroes – Character Skins Pack (£1.59/€1.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All Locales

Rock Band Network

• A Grim Struggle – Nightrage (£0.99/€1.49)
• Angela Surf City -The Walkmen (£0.99/€1.49)
• The Curse – Amberian Dawn (£0.99/€1.49)
• The Depths of Memory – NightShade (£0.99/€1.49)
• Thou Shall Not Fear – Lazarus A.D. (£0.59/€0.79)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not Available in Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Israel, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Poland, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE

Rock Band 3

• 3 Doors Down – Pack 01 (£2.49/€3.99) (contains the following songs also available separately)
• Here Without You (£0.99/€1.49)
• When I’M Gone (£0.99/€1.49)
• When You’re Young (£0.99/€1.49)

• Poison – Pack 01 (£2.49/€3.99) (contains the following songs also available separately)
• Nothin’ But A Good Time (£0.99/€1.49)
• Talk Dirty To Me (£0.99/€1.49)
• Unskinny Bop (£0.99/€1.49)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not Available in Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Israel, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Poland, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE

WWE All Stars

• Million Dollar Pack (£1.19/€1.49) Rating: PEGI 16

Availability: All Locales

Yoostar 2

• Pigs Don’t Have A Purpose (£1.39/€1.75)
• I Got Beaten Up A Lot (£1.39/€1.75)
• You Killed My Father – Prepare To Die! (£1.39/€1.75)
• The Terminator Scene Pack (£2.99/€3.59)
• You’re A Good Listener (£1.39/€1.75)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not Available in Belgium, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation and Ukraine

FirstPlay (PS3)

• FirstPlay Episode 63 (£0.99/€1.20)

Availability: Ireland and UK only

Avatars (PS3)

Ghostbusters

• Ghostbusters!
• Ecto 4WD
• Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
• Gabriel
• Samuel

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Putty Squad

• 2-Guns Puss
• Bad Boi
• Five Cent Putty
• Gangsta Putty
• Lil Napalm
• Napalm RPG
• Putty Splat
• T2000 Terminator Carrot
• T3000 Terminator Carrot

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Epyx’s Impossible Mission

• Agent Alpha1 Full Avatar
• Agent Alpha1 Upper Avatar
• Agent Delta Full Avatar
• Agent Delta Upper Avatar

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

James Pond : Operation Robocod

• Robocod Renegade Avatar

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Under Siege

• Kohuru
• Warrior
• Shaman
• Void
• Mist
• Grunt
• Stinger
• Wyvern
• Crawler
• Lizard Beast

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare

• John Marston #5
• Undead Abigail
• Undead Bear
• Undead Nun
• Undead Ricketts
• Undead Nightmare Logo
• Sasquatch
• Undead Marston

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Hoard

• HOARD Avatar
• Giant Avatar
• Knight Avatar
• Princess Avatar
• Thief Avatar

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Dissidia 012 [Duodecim] Final Fantasy

• Gilgamesh
• Feral Chaos
• Garland
• The Emperor
• Cloud of Darkness
• Lightning
• Kain Highwind
• Tifa Lockhart
• Laguna Loire
• Vaan
• Yuna
• Prishe
• Warrior of Light
• Firion
• Onion Knight
• Cecil Paladin
• Cecil Dark Knight
• Bartz Klauser
• Terra Branford
• Cloud Strife
• Golbez
• Exdeath
• Kefka Palazzo
• Sephiroth
• Ultimecia
• Squall Leonhart
• Zidane Tribal
• Tidus
• Shantotto
• Cosmos
• Kuja
• Jecht
• Gabranth
• Chaos

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

inFamous 2

infamous 2 Avatar Bundle (£0.79/€0.99)
(contains the following avatars also available separately)

• Good Cole
• Kuo
• Ice Soldier
• Militia 1
• Zeke

All available @ £0.20/€0.25

Dynamic Themes (PS3)

The Studio

• Hungry Eyes Static Theme by Kristian Hammerstad (£1.59/€1.99)
• Le Theme by 123Klan (£1.59/€1.99)

Disruptive Themes

• Battle Gear: UAV Drone (£1.99/€2.49)

Lama Themes

• Abstract Hell Theme (£2.99/€3.59)
• Bees Theme (£2.99/€3.59)
• Carousel Theme (£2.99/€3.59)
• Hawaii Beach Theme (£2.99/€3.59)

Wallpapers (PS3)

The Cursed Crusade

• The Cursed Crusade Temple Wallpaper (free)
• The Cursed Crusade Death Wallpaper (free)
• The Cursed Crusade Cursed Sun Wallpaper (free)

• Starhawk Wallpaper (free)

Videos (PS3)

• Dragons Lair II: Time Warp Video
• Driver E3 Trailer
• Ghost Recon E3 Trailer

OnLive believes that if Sony and MS were to integrate its Cloud service on PS3 and Xbox 360, they would “make great consoles”. The Californian firm made waves at E3 earlier this month by showing off its new controller, which connects to OnLive’s servers via most modern TVs and tablets wirelessly. It demoed a range of games playing glitch-free on iPad, including Gearbox’s Borderlands and Ubisoft’s From Dust. The tech has been officially backed by major software publishers such as Warner and EA. However, OnLive is yet to seal an affiliation with any traditional hardware manufacturer, locking it out of access to platform-exclusive content – and a big chunk of the modern gaming audience. When we asked OnLive VP of Engineering Joe Bentley if the company could see its service working with Microsoft and Sony’s systems in future – rather than just bypassing them – he said: “Absolutely, they would make great consoles. Our controller is a hybrid between a PS3 controller and an Xbox controller. It’s all compatible, it would just work. There are OnLive guys chatting [Sony and MS], but we’ll see where it goes. But it would absolutely work, we’re ready to work with everybody. He added: “What people are realising and waking up to is everything could be a console, why shouldn’t you be able to take your game everywhere. I think the timing of this is perfect. When I joined the company I didn’t think it was going to pan out this way. “I give lectures at university and I tell people that finally the internet has grown to be fast enough, and that it’s really the age of the SOC; the System-On Chips that you find in the iPad, the snapdragon. They’re making these magical smartphones and tablets take off in a huge way. “It makes you use your imagination: what would you do with faster Internet and these SOCs in TVs? It will soon be in everything up to refrigerators. This is what we came up with – turning everything into a console, not taking compromised gaming like Zynga or whatever but fully-fledged gaming with you. “It has to be instant, because the reality is we have a very short amount of time. The reason mobile gaming has taken off is because you can occupy your time at the bus stop or whatever. The limitations of those games, though, are that the entertainment only goes so far. Why compromise that experience? “LA Noire is a fabulous, wonderful story and you could sit there for weeks exploring it in different ways. Why not be able to take that with you and continue the story? It’s like a good book.” According to Bentley, Valve “really likes OnLive” and conversations are taking place between the firms about working closer together. OnLive’s Cloud Gaming service is due to launch in the UK this autumn. BT has the exclusive rights to bundle OnLive together with its broadband service offerings in the UK, although customers will also have the option to order directly from OnLive to run over any UK ISP.