Posts By Shubhankar Parijat

Battlefield 3 multiplayer classes receiving big changes

Battlefield 3 multiplayer classes receiving big changes

DICE is making several changes to Battlefield 3's multiplayer. Medics will now be a part of assault, so the offenders will now also have to do the doctoring. "All the abilities such as medkits and ... Read More

Far Cry 3 E3 gameplay video- alternate approach

Far Cry 3 E3 gameplay video- alternate approach

[HTML1] A gameplay video of Far Cry 3 was shown a few weeks ago at E3. Another gameplay video showing a playthrough of the same section has been released by Ubisoft, but with designer Andrea Zanini's... Read More

Bethesda won’t dumb down Elder Scrolls V to appeal to wider audiences

Bethesda won’t dumb down Elder Scrolls V to appeal to wider audiences

Unlike a lot of developers this generation, Bethesda doesn't think they'll have to dumb down their new game (The Elder Scrolls V) to appeal to a wider audience. "Honestly, [making the game more acce... Read More

BioWare takes a jab at Gears of War

BioWare takes a jab at Gears of War

When BioWare was talking about how you simply won't walk into a room in Mass Effect 3, see some cover and know there's a fight coming, they took a jab at legendary third person cover based shooter s... Read More

BioWare explains Mass Effect 3’s overhauled AI

BioWare explains Mass Effect 3’s overhauled AI

BioWare has come out an explained Mass Effect 3's overhauled AI in great detail in an interview with Xbox World 360, via CVG.  Christina Norman, Mass Effect 3 gameplay designer, said, "We do an AI... Read More

Mass Effect 3 has “more gameplay options than just aiming, shooting and using powers”

Mass Effect 3 has “more gameplay options than just aiming, shooting and using powers”

According to BioWare, Mass Effec 2's combat was not very deep. All you did was take cover, shoot your way through and use the occasional biotic powers and power ups. Mass Effect 3's gameplay will ha... Read More

Xenoblade EU release pre-poned

Xenoblade EU release pre-poned

Xenoblade, which was originally supposed to be released on the Wii in Europe this September, will not be releasing in August. The RPG's date has been shifted from September 2 to August 19. Nint... Read More

Sony working on PS3/PS2 Bollywood tie-in

Sony working on PS3/PS2 Bollywood tie-in

[HTML1] A UK based development team under Sony is currently working on a movie tie-in. The movie, called Ra.One, is a Bollywood sci-fi superhero flick starring Shah Rukh Khan. The game will be avail... Read More

RUMOUR CONTROL: Nintendo Localizing Xenobloade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in North America

RUMOUR CONTROL: Nintendo Localizing Xenobloade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower in North America

A few weeks ago, that the three new games they'd developed, Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower (which look awesome, by the way), will not be released in North America, because apparentl... Read More

Final L.A. Noire DLC gets a trailer

Final L.A. Noire DLC gets a trailer

[HTML1] The final DLC pack for L.A. Noire titled "Reefer Madness", features a Vice mission, seeing Phelps and Earle in “one of the city’s biggest narcotics rings.” It costs  320 MS points/£... Read More

Namco Bandai suing CDProjekt Red for shifting publishers of Xbox 360 version of Witcher 2 to THQ

Namco Bandai suing CDProjekt Red for shifting publishers of Xbox 360 version of Witcher 2 to THQ

According to a translated report from Polish site CDAction, Namco Bandai have filed a lawsuit against The Witcher 2 developers CDProjekt Red for switching publishers for the Xbox 360 version of t... Read More

Bethesda announces first person stealth action adventure game “Dishonored”

Bethesda announces first person stealth action adventure game “Dishonored”

Bethesda has just announced an all new first person, stealth action adventure game titled "Dishonored." It will be developed by Arkane Studios, which was bought out by Bethesda's parent company Ze... Read More

Take-Two trademarks Rockstar Films

Take-Two trademarks Rockstar Films

Take-Two Interactive recently filed a trademark for the name Rockstar Films, and the trademark has been approved. GTA/Red Dead/L.A. Noire film, anyone? “Animated motion picture films featuring en... Read More

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

Netflix on Wii U tablet “theoretically possible”- Reggie

During an interview with Forbes, when Reggie Files-Aime, Nintendo of America President, was asked if Netflix streaming can be done on the Wii U controller, he said it was "theoretically possible." ... Read More

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Nintendo “creating an environment where software from other companies will become hits”

Unlike the Wii, and the GCN, and the N64, Nintendo is actually looking to have strong third party support for the Wii U. "We think it very important to make several hits from the third-party softwa... Read More

Bethesda: “The big thing for us- the NPCs” for Skyrim

Bethesda: “The big thing for us- the NPCs” for Skyrim

Keep everything aside- the things Bethesda is focusing the most on in Skyrim are the NPCs,  the interaction, and how they act. They want to keep the NPCs' reactions to your actions realistic, an... Read More

“We’re extremely limited” by the Xbox 360 and the PS3, says Ubisoft

“We’re extremely limited” by the Xbox 360 and the PS3, says Ubisoft

The Xbox 360 and the PS3 have "very small memories and computation times", according to Ubisoft, and so, it can be pretty hard to make games on those systems with proper AI and good sound. "Our... Read More

Microsoft and Sony “testing the water” with next-gen home consoles

Microsoft and Sony “testing the water” with next-gen home consoles

As we all have guessed by now, Microsoft and Sony are not avoiding a new home console. Rather, they're testing waters for the next generation with Move and Kinect. Or so says 2K boss Christoph Hart... Read More

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III confirmed for Gamescom

Blizzard has confirmed on their Battle.net blog that StarCraft II: Hearts of the Swarm and Diablo III will be present at Gamescom next month. Hearts of the Swarm's appearance will be “the first t... Read More

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

Torchlight crosses 1 million sales

The Diablo inspired, Ruinic Games developed Torchlight has crossed sales figures of 1 million units across PCs, Macs and Xbox Live. The games looks a lot like Warcraft, and plays like Diablo- an ... Read More