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First Look At EA Access’ Battlefield Hardline Trial

This article contains spoilers of the prologue of Battlefield Hardline— viewer discretion is advised reading forward   Battlefield Hardline‘s prologue starts out as an opening cutscene with Detective Nicholas Mendoza, played by Nicholas Gonzalez, who has starred in several crime dramas like Dirty, Scenes of the Crime, Spun, Down for Life, and S.W.A.T.: Firefight. Nicholas Mendoza, accused of being a dirty cop, is being transported in an orange jumpsuit on a...

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Battlefield Hardline now available on EA Access

Earlier this month, EA announced that EA Access users would be getting early access to Battlefield Hardline on March 12th, 2015 until the game goes live on March 17th. Only available to paying EA Access members on Xbox One, take on the prologue and first mission with a 10 hour trial on gameplay including multiplayer. EA Access has updated it’s vault and has allowed download of the trail as of now. So gear up and take on the mean streets of LA and fight on both sides...

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MUT is Madden

Feat. MUT10 VETS EJnfl24, DJ Mateo, Medusa, MrNICEGUY and Proxytron.   Madden Ultimate Team was first available on January 7th 2010 as an update to Madden 10 which came out the previous August. Before EA [Electronic Arts] released MUT on Madden they first tested Ultimate Team on FIFA09, five months after releasing FIFA— similar to the Madden drop mid cycle. Reasoning behind this mid cycle drop was by then players had already started drifting away from the game, as...

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XBOX DOWN

XBOX DOWN This holiday season was a festive time for all. Colorfully lights are hung everywhere. Microsoft broke the 10 million mark. Gamers throughout the world got the game they wanted. We all had to much to eat. Games got new DLC and Easter Eggs. Lizards stopped the Gaming Net.  Wait, Lizards what? While Microsoft sold half a million Xbox Ones in just one week, pushing them over 10 million total units sold, many gamers throughout the world could not even use the very...

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20 Questions with Battlefield 4’s Dan Mitre

This weeks 20 Questions will be with Dan Mitre (Community Manager Battlefield EA) @dan_mitre As I write this over 159,456 players are playing Battlefield 4 online, just about half the amount who bought the first console Battlefield back in 2005. Compare that to the 11.5 million copies of Battlefield 4 sold across the world you can see that the series has become a giant in the FPS world— if not the giant. While the Battlefield player count will always grow, is the...

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Upcoming “Cop Drama”, Battlefield Hardline, teams up with Interscope Records

Battlefield Hardline, the controversial crime slathered take on EA’s Battlefield series, is looking to set the bar on creating a truly immersive storyline. One that pulls the gamer in and toys with the feels. Of course it takes a great team of writers, visuals, and relatable characters— but when it gets down to what your mood is during a certain scene in the game, the music is what gets you engaged. The team at Visceral Games has teamed up with...

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BBC iPlayer now on Xbox One, finally!

Xbox One gets BBC iPlayer BBC just released their iPlayer app on the Xbox One, over a year after it’s initial release on PS4. The application will allow you to stream all it’s content in HD and supports Kinect voice commands. To access content,  just like Fox GO and Xfinity, you must have a subscription. In this case, a compatible Sky package. BBC has also announced it is extending how long you have to download TV shows to watch offline. Now it is one month...

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bug Fixes Arrive

According to the 343 Industries Community Blog, Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s big content update is rolling out to Xbox One owners today. Originally slated for a November 19th release, the update went live today. The developers stated if you have not yet receive the update you will be getting it “shortly”. The update hopes to address many of the issues that plagued the launch of the much anticipated re-release of the Halo franchise on Xbox One, but...

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Day 1 Halo MCC Matchmaking Issue Continues

Praise the Halo gods, Halo: The Master Chief Collection has finally been graced into our Xbox One systems. Oh wait, what’s that? You’ve been waiting 5 minutes to get into a Halo 2 classic playlist? It seems that 343 Industries is having trouble establishing matchmaking connections server side, and addressed this head on November 11th. Since the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we’ve received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow...

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The “D” in Destiny is for Disappointment

Let me start by saying that there are a lot of really good things about Destiny. I do like the game. I’ve hit level 20 and completed all of the story missions. I played a significant amount of the competitive multiplayer and even there the game is exceptionally good. The supercharged abilities add a nice wrinkle to competitive play especially in the objective mode Control, which is like Conquest in Battlefield. The game plays extremely well. The controls are tight and the...