The newest release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has topped the sales charts hitting 2.3 million copies sold and the month of March isn't even over yet. This becomes the fatest selling on record in both North America and Europe. Interested in some facts about the game game while we're at it? Take a look at these bullet points.
• 81B points have been earned in online multiplayer sessions
• 43M weapons and gadgets have been unlocked in online multiplayer
• Over 6M video views on YouTube
• 2.9M hours have been spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone
• 230K peak-concurrent-users (PCUs)
• Over 44k Twitter fans (most out of any EA title)
Let's see if Modern Warfare 2 can top that, huh?
“We are so thrilled with the success of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sales and fan response. In the first 48 hours we had such a tremendous rush to multiplayer gameplay that our servers experienced overwhelming demand. This is a testament to the massive response players have had worldwide for the extraordinary action experienced in the Battlefield sandbox,” says Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer, Battlefield Franchise. “DICE and EA have brought more servers online. We now have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections seamlessly and we continue to monitor online play daily.”
Battleifleld: Bad Company 2 is now available for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
We're going to catch up on the day's news today with a few highlights and announcements, so let's get started.
- Kane&Lynch 2: Dog Days was officially dated today and will hit store shelves in North America on August 24th, 2010 and August 27th for Europe and other PAL territories. You'll see the game available for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Games for Windows Live (PC).
- EA and Black Box Sudios revealed that Skate 3 will be hitting the store shelves on May 11th in North America and May 14th, 2010 Worldwide. You'll see the game available for the Xbox 360 and Plystation 3. You can check out a full list of skaters that are in the game after the jump.
- DragonAge Origins: Awakening the new expansion for the DragonAge Origins title has hit the store shevles this week. Players will be able to explore a more deeper world in that of Amaranthine. You can either download the expansion on Xbox Live and PSN or by the retail disc at stores everywhere.
- Also of note; Just Cause 2 was downloaded 2 million times since its launch on Xbox Live, PSN and Games For Windows Live.
The newest adventure for Snake and his team for the portable kind will be available on store shelves on the PSP, June 18th. The game will be acting as a direct sequel to release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is set in 1974 towards the end of the Cold War and contains an all new sotry by Hideo Kojima himself.
Taking full advantage of the PSP™ format, METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER takes the series in an exciting new direction with incredible visuals, as it sheds new light on well-known adversaries and allies, along with a wealth of new characters. In true Metal Gear Solid tradition, METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER drops the player into a series of hostile scenarios, as a terrible plan for world domination is revealed.
METAL GEAR SOLID: PEACE WALKER will be available for PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) and PSP™go and will support the new adhocParty mode, which connects PSP systems via a PLAYSTATION®3 unit, allowing players to use the game’s multiplayer mode online. The famous Metal Gear series is considered as a benchmark stealth series, which sold more than 27.7m copies (as of December 2009) worldwide since its debut in 1987.
THQ announced today that their latest first-person shooter with elements of survival horror, Metro 2033, has been released and is on the shelves for both the PC and Xbox 360.
Black Box, a studio of Electronic Arts, announced today the closed beta for Need for Speed World, a massively multiplayer onlineaction racing game. Over the next few months thousands of players will have their chance to get one of the limited slots in the PC beta.
Bethesda has announed that it will publish Hunted: The Demon's Forge, a third-person co-op fantasy action game. Hunted is being developed by inXile Entertainment for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
inXile Entertainment was founded in 2002 by Brian Fargo. During his tenure in the video game business, Fargo has been behind game franchises such as The Bard's Tale, Baldur's Gate, and Fallout. Hunted’s development is being overseen by Fargo while Michael “Maxx” Kaufman serves as the game’s Director. Previously, Kaufman served as Art Director on Kingpin: Life of Crime, Redneck Rampage and Return to Castle Wolfenstein at Gray Matter.
“We are thrilled to be working with Bethesda Softworks on this upcoming release that takes us back to our roots,” said Brian Fargo, Founder of inXile Entertainment. “Bethesda’s track record speaks for itself and the game we are developing for them is no exception.”
“inXile has an extremely talented team and we couldn’t be more pleased to have them working on one of our upcoming titles,” said Vlatko Andonov, President of Bethesda Softworks. “We believe gamers will be really excited about what these guys have in store for them.”
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Brink, the new shooter from Splash Damage and Bethseda Softworks is here bringing us a complete cinematic trailer to continue to get us excited. It's definitely amazing how far this game has come in development.
The game is set for release this holiday season for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Peter Moleyneux held his press conference and revealed some rather interesting details about the upcoming Fable 3. Here's is a bit of a talk Moleyneux had during the Game Developers Conference this week. Via Destructoid.
Molyneux wanted to make Fable III's story is much clearer, and more different, than the narratives from the first two games.The team could have retread the same narrative ground and made another Hero's Journey where you start weak, then get really strong, and then kill a baddie at the end, but Molyneux asked: "what if we made that hero's journey the halfway point in our game? What if we constructed this story where you started as a hero without any power at all, and what if there was this evil terrible tyrant king, and what if you went out as a rebel, took forces and took on and overthrew that tyrant king, and then you became that king yourself? Would that be a unique and original story if that was a halfway point? The answer was yes."
You can check out a whole new batch of screenshots below.
At the Game Developers Conference, something overheard at the show floor was a glimer of hope that Kid Icarus might be making the jump to the Wii. You can still purchase the original game on the Virtual Console for now.
"If we can find some sort of way to bring it to the Wii, a way to make the game for the Wii that makes sense, we would happily do so," he said. "But just keep in mind it may not be me making the game."
Earlier today it was one of the games creator, Yoshio Sakamoto, that spoke with Kotaku. Real excitement could be had here and a boost in sales as well if Nintendo found some way to bring the favored character into the next generation. We'll just have to wait and see.
The Playstation Move is Sony's latest effort into digging the motion control world that has been kicked started by the Nintendo Wii. Here, Sony hopes to take a strangle hold on the market base Nintendo has and stretch it then some. Here at GamePlasma we took all the details we could find an put them all into one report so you could see for yourself how the Move works and what we can expect from the Move this year.
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