The first details for Black Ops’ “First Strike” Map Pack have been revealed by Treyarch’s producer Dan Bunting. Talking on Major Nelson’s podcast, Bunting revealed that the First Strike map pack will hit Xbox 360 on February 1st, 2011. This release will be exclusive to Xbox Live initially (should hit PS3 and PC around a month later,) and cost 1200 MSP/$15. Black Ops First Strike map pack will be made up of four new multiplayer maps and one new Zombie [...]
Den Kirkson is still hard at work extracting data from Black Ops. Not content with a weapons damage chart (and now a interactive version), he has gone ahead and put all sorts of Killstreak Reward data into a chart. Check it out below, or at Den Kirksons site – along with other interesting Black Ops data.
EA CEO: Treyarch ‘Far From Proven’ in Eyes of Consumers You may remember EA’s executives during the year repeatedly talking about the publisher taking back the shooter category crown from Activision. The Medal of Honor reboot was certainly a part of the shooter genre attack, and while EA Europe VP Patrick Soderlund said at one point that the game didn’t meet EA’s own quality expectations, EA CEO John Riccitiello has told IndustryGamers that the title absolutely did exceed EA’s expectations. Riccitiello [...]
DICE’s Barry Tingle posted an update on the status of the Battlefield 2142 v1.51 patch. A new beta has been released, which will become final if all goes well. Thanks BF-Games. So we got our programmer back to work on BF2142 1.51 and he fixed the server problem we had remaining and are sending out the servers to the Beta server providers today. Tomorrow 17th December 2010 will see the release of hopefully the last BF2142 1.51 Beta and will [...]
Treyarch have been working on the latest patch for the PC version of Black Ops for quite some time now. The patch, which includes optimizations, the addition of the /connect and /reconnect feature, exploit fixes, and more, has just gone live according to Treyarch’s pcdev. The full list of fixes can be found after the break. As always, let us know in the comments if the latest patch has worked for you PC guys. New Patch Details: PC Patch 1.04 [...]
