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  • Just when I started to really sink my teeth into the Closed Beta action in Ghost Recon Online (GRO), the new F2P TPS from Ubisoft, the game’s devs are shutting it down for a few weeks. All planned of course…the game’s devs will retool the game in the next three-four weeks, after which time the third phase of the CB...

    Ghost Recon Online Phase 3 Closed Beta

    Posted on May 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
    Just when I started to really sink my teeth into the Closed Beta action in Ghost Recon Online (GRO), the new F2P TPS from Ubisoft, the game’s devs are shutting it down for a few weeks. All planned of course…the game’s devs will retool the game in the next three-four weeks, after which time the third phase of the CB...

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  • It seems like yesterday, but it was way back in October of last year that we reported on the Danish indie-studio, Reto-Moto and it’s ambitious new project, the F2P browser-based Heroes & Generals (B&S article). Heroes & Generals (H&G) was going to be a free to play online FPS with a twist. That twist embodied a strategic Multiplayer Campaign overlay...

    Heroes & Generals Pre Beta

    Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments
    It seems like yesterday, but it was way back in October of last year that we reported on the Danish indie-studio, Reto-Moto and it’s ambitious new project, the F2P browser-based Heroes & Generals (B&S article). Heroes & Generals (H&G) was going to be a free to play online FPS with a twist. That twist embodied a strategic Multiplayer Campaign overlay...

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  • In this article, SeanPwnery let’s us know about the JägdTiger-88, an upcoming Premium Tier VIII Tank Destroyer slated for release in the upcoming World of Tanks 7.3 patch. Golden Treasure, or has Wargaming laid an egg? - Sean Pwnery Behold, the JägdTiger – The Hunting Tiger “Tank Destroyer” with its “Fresh out of the pool” look. This is the “new”...

    WoT: The JägdTiger-88

    Posted on May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments
    In this article, SeanPwnery let’s us know about the JägdTiger-88, an upcoming Premium Tier VIII Tank Destroyer slated for release in the upcoming World of Tanks 7.3 patch. Golden Treasure, or has Wargaming laid an egg? - Sean Pwnery Behold, the JägdTiger – The Hunting Tiger “Tank Destroyer” with its “Fresh out of the pool” look. This is the “new”...

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  • If you had gone to PAXEast, you’d probably think that the latest North American fashion-craze involves wearing skull-head emblazoned chin scarfs. Well, those scarfs at PAX weren’t fashion statements — they were signals…signals that a sea change was taking place. You see, the scarfs were a giveaway piece of swag by the folks at Ubisoft Singapore for their new Ghost...

    Ghost Recon Online

    Posted on April 21, 2012 | 4 Comments
    If you had gone to PAXEast, you’d probably think that the latest North American fashion-craze involves wearing skull-head emblazoned chin scarfs. Well, those scarfs at PAX weren’t fashion statements — they were signals…signals that a sea change was taking place. You see, the scarfs were a giveaway piece of swag by the folks at Ubisoft Singapore for their new Ghost...

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  • PAX East 2012 is in full swing in Boston this year. You can follow PAXEast live on Twitch TV below: Watch live video from PAX East 2012 on www.twitch.tv Keeping a BASHandSlash-eye on things down there is our good friend and co-host of FBS, Edmar. Edmar sends us these pics of the goings on: In the next week or so,...

    PAXEast 2012

    Posted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments
    PAX East 2012 is in full swing in Boston this year. You can follow PAXEast live on Twitch TV below: Watch live video from PAX East 2012 on www.twitch.tv Keeping a BASHandSlash-eye on things down there is our good friend and co-host of FBS, Edmar. Edmar sends us these pics of the goings on: In the next week or so,...

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  • This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC12), held in the digital hot-bed of San Francisco this year, ended successfully yesterday. GDC is a developer-only conference and thus tends to be a bit introspective, a bit “inside-baseball” and much less splashy than the more marketing-driven fests that will be geared towards the average consumer later this year.  GDC may not be too...

    GDC12: F2P’s coming out party

    Posted on March 10, 2012 | No Comments
    This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC12), held in the digital hot-bed of San Francisco this year, ended successfully yesterday. GDC is a developer-only conference and thus tends to be a bit introspective, a bit “inside-baseball” and much less splashy than the more marketing-driven fests that will be geared towards the average consumer later this year.  GDC may not be too...

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  • No sooner had my wingman and I leveled off our Spits at 15,000 feet, deep into the designated coverage area, our Sector Controller’s frantic voice broke through the radio static.  ”Bandits! Bandits! Angels plus 2″.  ”No joy, Sector control,” I countered. “I don’t have them.” I barely got the words out when my wingman piped up.  ”Nighthawk 1, Nighthawk 2,...

    World of Warplanes’ Alexander Zezulin

    Posted on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
    No sooner had my wingman and I leveled off our Spits at 15,000 feet, deep into the designated coverage area, our Sector Controller’s frantic voice broke through the radio static.  ”Bandits! Bandits! Angels plus 2″.  ”No joy, Sector control,” I countered. “I don’t have them.” I barely got the words out when my wingman piped up.  ”Nighthawk 1, Nighthawk 2,...

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  • Now finally out in open Beta,  Zombie Studios’ Blacklight: Retribution is now available for everyone to download. Retribution is a game that has been greatly anticipated by the F2P FPS community. The sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down, Retribution has been hailed as the game to watch during the first half of this year. It was at E3, way back in...

    Blacklight: Retribution Open Beta

    Posted on March 5, 2012 | 9 Comments
    Now finally out in open Beta,  Zombie Studios’ Blacklight: Retribution is now available for everyone to download. Retribution is a game that has been greatly anticipated by the F2P FPS community. The sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down, Retribution has been hailed as the game to watch during the first half of this year. It was at E3, way back in...

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  • Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a...

    What’s Coming up

    Posted on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Thought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon.  The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a...

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  • Wargaming.net’s upcoming World of Warplanes (WoWP), an aerial version of their current mega-hit, World of Tanks is set to come out this year. Here is the latest trailer, showing off the German planes in the game: The trailer includes the FW-56 Goshawk trainer, the famous BF-109G Messerschmidt fighter, the FW-57 fighter-bomber and the never-built butterfly-tail ME262 HG III jet fighter....

    World of Warplanes status update

    Posted on January 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Wargaming.net’s upcoming World of Warplanes (WoWP), an aerial version of their current mega-hit, World of Tanks is set to come out this year. Here is the latest trailer, showing off the German planes in the game: The trailer includes the FW-56 Goshawk trainer, the famous BF-109G Messerschmidt fighter, the FW-57 fighter-bomber and the never-built butterfly-tail ME262 HG III jet fighter....

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