Ubisoft announced Ghost Recon: Future Soldier this morning, with the Xbox 360 being the only platform confirmed. When Strategy Informer asked Ubisoft about PS3 or PC versions, the firm told Strategy Informer that it won’t be revealing the platforms just yet as gamers will have to wait for more announcements.
BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts, announced today that the Return to Ostagar downloadable content (DLC) for Dragon Age: Origins will be released on January 5 in North America and Europe for the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game at a cost of 400 BioWare Points or Microsoft Points. The DLC will be available for the PlayStation 3 later in January priced at $4.99.
The system requirements of the PC versions of Bad company 2 and Battlefield 1943 have been revealed. Both games are based on the current version of the Frostbite Engine. The minimal specs list a Core 2 Duo with at least 2 GHz and Geforce 7800 GT or Ati X1900. Recommended are a quad-core CPU and a Geforce GTX 260.
New updates have been released for the PC versions of the FPS hit Halo, now available for download.
Back when BioWare pushed back Dragon Age Origins’ release date one last time, from October 20 to November 3, they also announced the PlayStation 3 version would be following “later in November.” Not so anymore. Bioware co-founder Ray Muzyka has confirmed the game will release on the PS3 on November 3 right along with the 360 and PC versions in North America (via GameSpot).
The confirmation comes along with the announcement that the game has gone gold and is heading toward mass manufacturing, so stalwart fans who’ve been looking forward to this game for five frickin’ years can rest assured it won’t be delayed again. Musyka also confirmed that the PS3 version’s PlayStation Trophies will correspond with the previously revealed Achievements for the 360 version.
Now, there is one bit of bad news if you’re reading this in Europe, as the PS3 version of Dragon Age Origins is still releasing later in November there. “[We're] still working on the EU release timing for PS3,” said Muzyka. “We’ll have an announcement on that shortly — [it's] still planned for some time a bit later in November.”
Gary A Swaby from TheKoalition.com writes: So I’m sure your all aware about the fact that if you buy the collectors edition of Dragon Age: Origins you get some special armor that you can also use in Mass Effect 2 right? Well naturally I figured this would only be if you bought the Xbox 360 or PC versions of the collectors edition. Well today I was thinking about pre-ordering my version of Dragon Age: Origins (on the 360), but I was in a very curios mood. So I clicked on the Dragon Age: Origins collectors edition for Playstation 3 just to see what it offered (on game.co.uk), and sure enough I saw that it offered the same armor that can be used in Mass Effect 2
So at first my instincts told me that maybe Game was unaware or mis informed, so I then decided to check on amazon.com and sure enough I saw exactly the same thing.
So either buying the Ps3 version gets you Mass Effect 2 armor for use with the Xbox 360 or PC (which would be retarded), Or we will definitely be seeing Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 at some point. Or these sites are just clearly false advertising, which is very wrong considering the average consumer (or a journalist like me) may assume that Mass Effect 2 is for Playstation 3 also. Either way this is a very interesting discovery.
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Gary A Swaby from TheKoalition.com writes: So I’m sure your all aware about the fact that if you buy the collectors edition of Dragon Age: Origins you get some special armor that you can also use in Mass Effect 2 right? Well naturally I figured this would only be if you bought the Xbox 360 or PC versions of the collectors edition. Well today I was thinking about pre-ordering my version of Dragon Age: Origins (on the 360), but I was in a very curios mood. So I clicked on the Dragon Age: Origins collectors edition for Playstation 3 just to see what it offered (on game.co.uk), and sure enough I saw that it offered the same armor that can be used in Mass Effect 2
So at first my instincts told me that maybe Game was unaware or mis informed, so I then decided to check on amazon.com and sure enough I saw exactly the same thing.
So either buying the Ps3 version gets you Mass Effect 2 armor for use with the Xbox 360 or PC (which would be retarded), Or we will definitely be seeing Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 at some point. Or these sites are just clearly false advertising, which is very wrong considering the average consumer (or a journalist like me) may assume that Mass Effect 2 is for Playstation 3 also. Either way this is a very interesting discovery.
BeefJack writes: "In an announcement that is sure to make gamers worldwide groan. Massive Inc, the in game advert company owned by Microsoft, have announced that they have secured agreements to place adverts in the Xbox 360 and PC versions of several of this years biggest hits.
Games which will have adverts placed in them by Massive include the following title from Activision; Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero, Band Hero, Tony Hawk: Ride and Blur. While several of EA’s games will also have adverts in including; NFL 10, NHL 10, NBA Live 10 and Need for Speed Shift."
