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Battlefield 3 to be patched on PS3 tomorrow, 360 will “follow shortly”

Travis Bruno
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It appears that being banned in Iran didn’t affect the developers of Battlefield 3 much as they are hard at work releasing the next client update (read: Patch) for Battlefield 3 on consoles. Those who own the PlayStation 3 version will retain their first dibs on everything Battlefield 3 as they are even getting the patch first, as in tomorrow.

The Xbox 360 owners will need to wait a little longer for the patch, as the Battlelog states it will “follow shortly.” Be sure to check out all of the updates below and be ready to complain about how things are either now nerfed, broken or too powerful.

General fixes

  • Significant improvements to the Squad Join interface, full details in this earlier blog post
  • Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
  • Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 Squad members
  • Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
  • Disable Privacy flag when 1 man Squad
  • Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when Squad drops to 1 player
  • All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad selection screen
  • Players who choose not to join Squads will also show up as Blue in the “Not in a Squad” line
  • Squads that are currently empty will display as white — if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text
  • Added round duration and ticket summary at end of round screen
  • Fixed sound for when climbing ladders
  • Fixed and issue with some weapons’ sounds in first person view
  • Fixed a swim sound loop error
  • You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
  • Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it
  • Spawn protection now should work in Conquest so you no longer should spawn too close to enemies
  • You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM
  • Fix for missing input restriction during intro movie, causing players to potentially fall and die while watching movie if moving controller (or having a controller with a bad stick zone)
  • Combat areas on Kharg Island in Rush mode tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after first base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun
  • Fixed a problem with revived players not being able to get suppressed
  • Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in co-op
  • Spotting VO now plays when spotting from MAV/EOD bot
  • Fixed several issues regarding the kill card, including showing wrong weapons used for the kill
  • Fixed that sometimes you would be stuck on a black screen when kicked from server
  • Fixed so when a team captures two flags at the same time, the UI does not show wrong owner of the flag
  • Fixed a problem where the capture progress bar was shown as friendly when the enemy was capturing
  • Fixed a problem with the bipod deploy sound
  • Fixed a problem that you could be spawned in with no weapons after being killed while using the EOD bot
  • Fixed problems with health bars not displaying health properly when using EOD bots
  • Fixed a problem with flickering name tags
  • Fixed a problem where you could damage friendly helicopters
  • Fixed a problem where you could get stuck in the co-op menu when attempting to join the session twice
  • You should now be able to spot explosives
  • You should no longer spawn in home base if your selected spawn point is disabled while waiting to spawn (e.g. if your teammate dies right before you are about to spawn)
  • Damage from bullets will now continue to cause damage even after the firing user is dead
  • Fixed several client crashes
  • Fixed a problem where players could get stuck in the join queue
  • Fixed the repair icon on the minimap
  • Fixed a problem with changing camera on certain vehicles
  • Fixed a problem with the grenade indicator when in guided missile mode
  • Fixed a problem where the machine could hard lock when joining a public coop game
  • Fixed a problem where the headset attached icon would not show up in the UI
  • Fixed a problem with the falling antenna on Caspian Border. It should now more instantly kill anyone in its falling path
  • Fixed a problem where tank turrets would turn too slow
  • Fixed a bug on co-op mission “Exfiltration” where you could end up outside the vehicle and not being able to enter it again, thus blocking the mission
  • Fixed a problem where a user can become invulnerable after being resurrected
  • Fixed a problem with the M60 reload sound
  • Fixed a hang in terrain streaming, causing the user to get stuck on black screen under special circumstances in single player
  • Fixed a problem where the enemy would not be able to get a road kill on a user that was using the SOFLAM
  • Fixed soldiers disappearing in the mortar kill cam
  • Fix for Type88 and MG36 zoom in animation offset when in supported shooting mode (using bipods)

Balance changes

  • Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns, AA guns, and jet cannons against infantry
  • Increased the damage of helicopter miniguns against jeeps
  • Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and jet cannons so players under attack from these weapons no longer should lose control
  • Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly
  • Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex
  • Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons
  • Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R
  • Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range
  • Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles
  • Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons
  • Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft
  • Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds
  • Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against helicopters
  • Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells

Restaurant City goes Thanksgiving

Jessica Barabas-Bui
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Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition has been given an update thanks to the guys over at EA’s Playfish. The update includes a Thanksgiving Theme and new challenges, so for those new to the game you can experience a fuller game, and for those who already have it, you can revisit the game and discover new things.

The Thanksgiving theme includes forty new items including turkey, pilgrims and honey baked ham for those of you who really want to have that genuine Thanksgiving. Even for those of us who have never had a genuine Thanksgiving. The new challenges will also allow you to complete new challenges to earn tokens, coins and gourmet points for people who have already finished off the challenges.

Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition is available on iPhone, iTouch and iPad for FREE – get it HERE

Voltron assembles on PSN and XBLA this week

Travis Bruno
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After Voltron: Defender of the Universe slipped from its October release date fans were worried about when they would be seeing their classic multi-colored robotic creatures assembling into a giant fighting robot on their console of choice. They need not despair however as THQ has revealed that Voltron: Defender of the Universe will be released this week on PSN and XBLA.

The title will be available tomorrow on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 version is already available right now. Players will be able to control one robot at a time and can choose which one they would rather use given the various stats each one has. Then once combined the player actually controls that body part of Voltron themselves, which just sounds immensely confusing.

Free Victini to go along with airing of Pokémon the Movie: White-Victini and Zekrom

Travis Bruno
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While early adopters of Pokémon White and Black were given the opportunity to capture Victini with little actual trouble, not everyone has been able to get this powerful fire Pokémon and add them to their party. However it seems that they now will be able to pick them up through a new promotion being run by Nintendo and Pokémon for the new movie being released which is called Pokémon the Movie: White-Victini and Zekrom.

Players will be able to connect to their Wi-Fi Connection portal and will be able to pick up a level 50 Victini who is also a fire and psychic type Pokémon. The creature is extremely strong and possesses both the Black & White legendary Pokémon’s main skills. Creating perhaps the strongest Victini possible. So best check the Wi-Fi Connection portal on and after December 3rd to pick it up.

Producer of To aru Majutsu no Index claims 26 episode season costs 300 million yen

Travis Bruno
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Everything in life takes money and making movies and anime are no different. Usually when one hears about the figures needed to create their favorite shows it is a big surprise as to how expensive they can be, but none could expect them to be quite as expensive as anime turns out to be. Nobuhiro Nakayama, the producer of To aru Majutsu no Index and Hatsukoi Limited held a lecture this weekend at Tokyo university ad he revealed that the cost to make a 26 episode anime series costs around 300 million yen, or $3.85 million to make.

After revealing this startlingly high number, Nakayama went on to say that whenever an anime is successful, the anime is then “everyone’s achievement; however, if it fails, it is the producer’s responsibility, so bear that in mind.” This makes a decent amount of sense and is true for other forms of media as well, for example if a major movie production flops at the box office, people will always blame the director first.

Hatoful Boyfriend now chirps in English

Luke Halliday
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A couple months back we reported on what is without a doubt the most bizarre visual novel to come out of Japan. That is unless you count the ones with tentacle rape, but that’s a whole other story.

So for those you who were interested in Hatoful Boyfriend, a game that allows you to do romantic things with a variety of birds who seem to inhabit your all bird school, but you couldn’t understand Japanese – well now an English patch has been released for the infamous visual novel.

That’s right, you can now date and potentially take to bed a flock of birds with Hatoful Boyfriend in English. You can get the English patch here. So what does everyone think? Look’s like Skyrim will be quaking in it’s boots come Game of the Year time.

SpaceChem has a new sandbox mode

Jessica Barabas-Bui
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A whole new Sandbox mode has been added to SpaceChem, along with a price drop to $9.99 USD. In celebration Zachtronics Industries has decided to set up a little competition.

Your mission if you choose to accept it, is to build the most awesome sandbox pipeline imaginable they’ll give you a free physical copy of SpaceChem. There is one entry per person, requiring you to send your save file in email and an explanation of what you’ve built and what it accomplishes in English in under 500 words to [email protected].

The deadline for the competition is January 1st, 2012 so make sure you can finish it off this year and send it in. Of course if you already have a physical copy of SpaceChem then there isn’t much point, except for the street cred.

So get working on your SpaceChem sandbox pipelines and get them sent it in!

Get some treasure with Twist n’Catch

Jessica Barabas-Bui
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Okugi Studio is delivering its first game app for Smartphones, Twist n’Catch. Which sounds like a game based around fishing and therefore something I am immediately bored by, but no! Instead it is a dexterity puzzle game in which you travel to exotic places and collect yourself some treasure. And who doesn’t love treasure?

You play as the explorer Emmet Black, finding the best possible way to gather treasure while hanging in the air by a rope. Held there by your assistant Sergeant Cookie you have to avoid obstacles and traps to collect diamonds and sapphires. The game takes place over three worlds and on over 100 levels, for the moment, with more updates promised and more worlds.

Check out the trailer below!

Twist n’Catch is available on Android phones for $1.08 – grab it HERE
Twisnt n’Catch will be made available on iOS soon.

Shiny Treasure gets an update

Jessica Barabas-Bui
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Shiny Treasure has received an update, giving the 3D tower defense game that extra boost for if you haven’t yet given it a go. The fix provides a smaller application size, bug fixes, small graphical enhancements, small performance increases and improved difficulty.

Given that the application size is smaller you can now download the game without a Wifi connection, and if you’ve had any issues with the game’s performance then you should be quite happy with what the update brings.

In Shiny Treasure you have to build different types of towers all over your island, protecting yourself against looting pirates. Take on Blackbeard, or some estimation thereof, as you keep your booty safe.

Shiny Treasure is available on iPad, iPhone and iTouch for FREE – grab it HERE

Realms of Ancient War gets some more screenshots

Claire Phillips
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Realms of Ancient War gets some more screenshots

Focus Home Interactive and Wizarbox have a new fantasy hack and slash title on the way. Realms of Ancient War – snappily acronymed to R.A.W – will hit XBLA in early 2012, and then follow up with a digital release on PC and on the PSN. Players will pick from the usual fantasy triumvirate of warrior, sorcerer or rogue, and can take on the adventure solo or in two player co-op.

Every fantasy title requires a suitably epic set up, and in RAW’s case the four kingdoms of men, elves and dwarves (presumably there are two lots of humans on the go) have been decimated by war. In the fallout and chaos the world is infested by raiders and looters – but they are not the only thing to be wary of in this damaged world…

Each kingdom sends its representatives to investigate this new threat, but none ever return. Players will take on the usual role of the random joe who could, finding themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and thus becoming tangled up in the quest to rid the already broken world of this new evil.

Said random joe will gain new skills and powers along the way, and also has the ability to incarnate themself into the bodies of even the most powerful of enemies.

The screenshots and publishers alike promise a varied world with plenty of levels to explore. The real question is if RAW will be able to stand out from the crowd with some great gameplay to make up for it’s largely generic premise and set up. Xbox gamers will be the first to find out come 2012.

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