With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward promising to cure the shooter’s “mapathy” with some downloadable content on March 30, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer EA DICE has thrown down the gauntlet.
The same day, March 30, will see DICE release its second “VIP Map Pack” for Bad Company 2, it revealed in a blog post titled “how to avoid ‘mapathy’ without paying.”


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Green Day: Rock Band is slated for a worldwide release on June 8, publisher MTV Games has announced, heading to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
Developed by Harmonix and Demiurge, the pop punks’ rhythm game offers 47 tracks from their varied catalog including “Brain Stew,” “Jaded,” “Hitchin’ a Ride,” “American Idiot,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” complete with the vocal harmonies feature introduced with The Beatles: Rock Band.
Unlike The Beatles, Green Day’s RB game allows Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners to export the tracks for use in any core Rock B…
Epic Games and Valve Software announced they have inked a deal that will see the Valve’s free Steamworks tools more easily available to all Unreal Engine 3 licensees.
The free Steamworks suite offers solutions for everything from auto-updating and social networking to matchmaking and copy protection in PC games. Unreal technology has been licensed widely by titles as diverse as Batman: Arkham Asylum and BioShock.

It’s all smiles until someone asks whether UE3 or Valve’s Source ‘feels’ better.
“Epic’s technology is one of the most widely used engines in the industry and has powered many of th…
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