Electronic Arts has turned off real money purchases of the premium currency “crystals” within Star Wars: Battlefront II which launches in just a couple of hours time. Their brief statement outlines that the game is built upon player feedback and that in-game purchases will not be re-enabled until they evaluate the state of the game with the community. Today, we turned off in-game purchases for #StarWarsBattlefrontII. The game is built on your input, and it will continue to...
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Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star DLC Details
Last year’s Star Wars Battlefront reboot will receive its third add-on DLC in just a few weeks. We’ve known for a while that players would be taking to the lower orbit above the Death Star to fight alongside Luke or Vader and now we’ve got some more details about $14.99 DLC – which two new heroic units will be joining, two of the new vehicles and a brand new mechanics for the Death Star’s included maps. Players will build up a separate...
Continue reading...New Games Coming To The Origin Access (PC) and EA Access (Xbox One) Vault
Last year’s street racing focused reboot of the Need For Speed franchise is making its way to both the EA Access vault on Xbox One as well as Origin Access’ game vault on Windows PC this week. The latest NFS title received a mediocre reception – averaging just 66 on Metacritic but surely this won’t stop subscribers from getting at least a few hours of enjoyment out of the title. Alongside the racer EA’s absolutely adorable Unravel...
Continue reading...Star Wars Battlefront February Patch Notes Released
Fans of EA/DICE’s multiplayer centric shooter set in A Galaxy Far Far Away will be happy to learn that the pair has revealed the official patch notes for the upcoming February content drop. As previously announced a brand new map will become available when this patch drops – Twilight on Hoth which supports a whole bunch of modes including – Walker Assault, Supremacy, Turning Point, Blaster, Fighter Squadron, Drop Zone and Heroes & Villains. A new survival...
Continue reading...Star Wars Battlefront cant violate “Star Wars canon” EA says
Gamers were upset earlier this year when EA announced it would not be bringing any content from The Force Awakens into Star Wars BattleFront. An announcement this week of the road map of DLC content did not include any thing from newest Star Wars film. Now EA is providing their reason& this puts and end to all of the speculation (some of which we did here). On on earnings call with EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said: “On Star Wars,...
Continue reading...EA’s Star Wars Battlefront DLC Plans Unveiled
Electronic Arts has finally outlined its plans for downloadable content for Star Wars: Battlefront for three content drops that will arrive between January and March as well as the mysterious Season’s Pass that has until now only been described in quite vague terms. Players who chose to not invest in the potentially overpriced Season’s Pass will be treated to a free Tatooine map survival map, new outfits for Luke and Han and the ability to create private...
Continue reading...Star Wars: Battlefront Flaunts Equality– Falls Short
EA DICE released Star Wars: Battlefront on November 17, 2015. While the game has been criticized for not having the same range of weapons, vehicles and campaign play as its previous iteration, the new Star Wars: Battlefront has made some awesome advances, including absolutely gorgeous graphics and stunning sound effects and music. One notable different between the new Star Wars: Battlefront and its previous versions, is its inclusion of female and minority Stormtroopers. In fact, the game...
Continue reading...UK Sales Charts For The Week of Jan 2nd Dominated By Black Ops III
Our first games sales numbers to include the post holiday discount period have arrived thanks to the weekly UK software charts. Not surprising several AAA franchise compose the top ten including EA’s Star Wars Battlefront, Activision’s Call of Duty and Bethesda softwork’s Fallout 4. What is a little surprising is to see Just Cause 3 crack into the top ten – currently occupying the 8th place. Considering that game was released so late in the pre-holiday season...
Continue reading...Origin Launches Holiday Sale – Includes Several Huge Games
With just seven days until Christmas Day it is no surprise that publishers are rolling out some great deals on some of this year’s hottest games as well as excellent releases from years past. Electronic Art’s Origin service pulls the trigger on this year’s sale ahead of competitor Valve. They’re not only offering some fantastic prices on some of our favorite games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and the entire Mass Effect trilogy but also the lowest price...
Continue reading...PlayStation Holiday Sale Week Two Deals: Battlefront, Guilty Gear & More
Sony has updated the PlayStation Store yet again with some fantastic deals thanks to the second week of their Holiday Sale. Some really big titles are on sale this week including Square Enix’s Final Fantasy X / X-2 remaster collection, Star Wars Battlefront many others. If you’ve missed out on some of the bigger games from last year & this year, then this might be the time to save a few bucks. I’ve highlighted some of the...
Continue reading...Critics Feel A Mixed Reaction In The Force As Star Wars Battlefront Launches
It’s as if dozens of critics cried out in terror that one of the most anticipated games of 2015 might not live up to fan’s monumental expectations. Today is November 17th and it is probably the second most hyped days this year for long time fans of The Force – save for the December 18th launch of The Force Awakens – today is the day that EA unleashes the highly anticipated Star Wars Battlefront on PlayStation 4,...
Continue reading...Questions Arise About The Legitimacy of Green Man Gaming Battlefront Keys
Popular game deals sub-reddit /r/GameDeals has banned the posting of deals from well known discount PC games retailer Green Man Gaming after some users have question the legitimacy of some of the keys available through the website. Earlier today GMG sent out a blast email to all of those who recently pre-ordered EA’s upcoming shooter Star Wars Battlefront stating that GMG may not be able to fulfil all orders in time for the game’s release tomorrow. This...
Continue reading...EA Announces That There Will Be No Voice Chat In Star Wars Battlefront
EA is keeping the Star Wars hype alive by trickling out a steady stream of news about the final release of Star Wars Battlefront. The latest bit of news is to say the least controversial, EA today through a series of tweets confirmed there will be no “ingame” chat in Battle Front. The tweets are below, but the gist of it is that 3rd part voice clients are going to be needed to talk to anyone in...
Continue reading...Hands-On With The Star Wars Battlefront Beta
Our staff played a combined 10 hours of the Star Wars Battlefront beta on Windows PC this weekend and are ready to share their field reports. It should be noted that these are early impressions based upon a beta build of an un-released game and as such the final game may address some of the issues we are about to discuss. Fionna Fox’s Impressions IT happened at 11:35 on the second day of the beta, with a...
Continue reading...Star Wars BattleFront Beta Now Open On PC
After a long gruelling wait – andwatching Twitch streamers and YouTubets posting their first impressions – the Star Wars Battlefront beta is available through Origin for all to try! If you had the foresight to pre-load the beta than you can jump right in and get in on the action. For those of you who haven’t – there is a mandetory 7.5GB download required. We previously also posted the recommended System Specs for Battlefront. Hopefully your rig...
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