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Activision has released a new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Season Pass video detailing what players will get for paying up-front for additional DLC content.

The Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Season Pass will cost $50 and will grant buyers access to four DLC packs planned for release throughout 2015 – Havoc, Ascendance, Supremacy, and Reckoning – each one containing new multiplayer content, typically including maps and modes.

Season Pass holders will also get early access DLC weapons, and will get an additional DLC multiplayer map on launch day. Called Atlas Gorge, the map is an enhanced remake of Call of Duty 4′s Pipeline map, and the focus of the above video.

The $50 Season Pass will represent a $10 discount on buying the expansions separately at $15 each. The first DLC expansion, Havoc, is set to drop in January.

Activision recently announced that customers who purchase Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare digitally on Xbox 360 or PS3 will be able to download the new-gen version within the same console family for free.

The Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare release date is November 4 on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC.

Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield Hardline, a Battlefield title in the works at Visceral Games, is scheduled to be available on March 17 in North America, March 19 in Europe and March 20th 2015 in the UK.

In a crime drama filled single player story, Miami is embroiled in a drug war and Officer Nick Mendoza has just made Detective. Alongside his partner, veteran detective Khai Minh Dao, he follows the drug supply chain from the streets to the source. In a series of increasingly off-the-books cases the two detectives come to realise that power and corruption can affect both sides of the law.

In multiplayer, the world is simple. You’re on one side of the law or the other – a baton or bat, stun gun or rifle, armoured police truck or powerful muscle cars. But either way, teamwork is going to be essential if you’re going to want to pull off that perfect heist or big time bust in this new take on Battlefield multiplayer.

Battlefield Hardline will be available for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One®, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PC via Origin™, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft.

Get more game information at the official Battlefield Hardline website.

Steam has updated the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare product page confirming the PC system requirements for the game.

MINIMUM:

• OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel® CoreTM i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD PhenomTM II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz or better
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 450 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 @ 1GB or better
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Hard Drive: 55 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX-compatible
• Additional Notes: Field of View ranges from 65°-90°

RECOMMENDED:

• OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 @ 4GB
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Hard Drive: 55 GB available space
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c Compatible 16-bit
• Additional Notes: Field of View ranges from 65°-90°

In support of the Make Arma Not War contest, Arma 3 will be available to play for free this weekend on Steam (October 23rd – 27th), and can be purchased with a massive 50% discount. By logging in to www.makearma.com/entries with their Steam account during this free weekend, people will also be able to vote for their favorite Singleplayer entries in the €500,000 Make Arma Not War contest.

More information about the contest, the rules, prizes, and categories is available on www.makearma.com.

Watch some popular community members share their thoughts on the new movement system, customization options, describing their most epic moments with the game

Source: Gamer’s Hell

Activision and Sledgehammer Games offer another Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailer showcasing the next chapter in the Call of Duty franchise due to arrive on November 4th, 2014, for PC, Xbox One and PS4. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare takes players to a future devastated by a global attack. Rising from the chaos is Atlas, a Private Military Corporation led by the cunning Jonathan Irons. With the most powerful military force in the world, Atlas has effectively become a superpower for hire. Playing as Jack Mitchell, suit up in an advanced exoskeleton and join a highly-trained unit committed to restoring order.

The exoskeleton carries over into multiplayer, where an all-new movement system changes the way players traverse the terrain. You can chain together boost actions like jump, dodge, and dash in a fast and fluid style of play. You can equip all-new abilities and armaments in the revamped Create-a-Class. You can also earn additional weapons and gear through in-game Supply Drops, outfitting your operator in the deepest customization experience in franchise history.

Watch the new video here.

Bohemia Interactive is organizing special mini-competition in support of its €500,000 Make Arma Not War content creation contest for Arma 3.

To enter, people simply need to create a “… Wants You To Vote” poster or video for the Make Arma Not War contest. The winner will receive a true Arma 3 fan package, which includes a boxed version of Arma 3, a printed Arma 3 Tactical Guide, an Arma 3 t-shirt, and an Arma 3 USB flash drive.

People can submit their creation by sending an e-mail with their poster (JPEG or PNG) and/or video (YouTube link) to [email protected] before Thursday October 28th 2014. The winner (and runner-ups) will be revealed on or before Tuesday November 4th 2014.

More information about the Make Arma Not War contest itself, the rules, prizes, and categories is available on www.makearma.com.

Source: CharlieIntel.com

Sledgehammer Games have uploaded the Advanced Warfare multiplayer reveal trailer with new developer commentary from Studio Head Michael Condrey and Designer Greg Reisdorf.

Sledgehammer Games Studio Head Michael Condrey and Lead Multiplayer Designer Greg Reisdorf provide their insight on the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Multiplayer Trailer. Check out this insider perspective on the new gameplay mechanics that are elevating Call of Duty Multiplayer to new heights.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Multiplayer Trailer Developers Commentary

Get ready to own more and be more with the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition. Packed with content, the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition includes an intense single-player campaign as well as the award-winning multiplayer experience found in Battlefield 4 that lets players experience the rush of all-out-warfare on land, air and sea. The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition also delivers fans a Battlefield 4 Premium membership which provides access to five themed digital expansion packs with tons of multiplayer content including 20 maps, game modes, a variety of weapons and vehicles and more.

The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition will be available on Origin for PC starting October 21 priced at £39.99. From October 24, it will be available in the UK via Digital Download on PlayStation 4, Xbox One (both priced at £54.99) and PlayStation 3 (priced at £39.99).

The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition includes all of the following:

• Engage in all-out warfare with award-winning multiplayer, and intense single-player missions delivered in Battlefield 4
• 5 expansion packs featuring multiplayer maps and in-game content:
• Battlefield 4 Second Assault
• Battlefield 4 China Rising
• Battlefield 4 Naval Strike
• Battlefield 4 Dragon’s Teeth
• Battlefield 4 Final Stand coming Fall 2014
• Exclusive personalization options including camos, paints, emblems, dog tags and more
• Priority position in server queues
• 12 bonus Battlefield 4 Gold Battlepacks

For more information please visit the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition official website.

There is something rather dark lurking at the centre of Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which just might make it the most mature offering this gaming franchise has seen in a while.

By Nick Cowen @ CVG

It’s not reinventing the series in terms of mechanics and structure by any means. Advanced Warfare looks, sounds and plays like its predecessor for the most part – the addition of jetpacks notwithstanding. The E3, Gamescom and more recent reveals have ticked the usual COD boxes: layered multiplayer, high octane campaign set-pieces and – this just in – the addition of a Survival mode similar to that in Modern Warfare 3.

And yet, on closer inspection, Advanced Warfare seems to be treading in far more nebulas moral terrain than its predecessors. In past entries in this series, players controlled Rangers, Marines, SAS thugs and Black Ops bagmen, but never at any time were they under the impression that the soldiers at the centre of the action weren’t the good guys. Advanced Warfare has no such safety net.

Read on…

Developer claims AMD tech has “kick-started” a new generation of lightweight APIs

Independent UK developer Rebellion today announced that summer chart-topper Sniper Elite 3 is the latest in a small but growing list of high-profile games to include support for AMD’s advanced Mantle API.

Released today as a free Steam update timed to coincide with AMD’s recent Catalyst™ 14.9 WHQL driver release, the Sniper Elite 3 update also includes a new Benchmark mode for both Mantle and DX11.

Writing in an in-depth analysis of Mantle’s performance impact on Sniper Elite 3 for the Rebellion website, the studio’s Head of Programming, Kevin Floyer-Lea explained why Rebellion was so keen to support the API from the beginning:

“This brings the PC closer to console programming, where developers are used to having direct control over available resources and squeezing the most out the hardware.”

Floyer-Lea continues “Whatever else may happen with Mantle in the future, it’s most definitely kick-started a move to more lightweight APIs”, referencing the recent announcements made around Microsoft’s DirectX 12, Apple’s Metal, and Khronos’ Next Generation OpenGL initiative.

Check out the “Benchmark Mode” video HERE.

Find out more at the official Rebellion Blog.