News tagged with Heroes (16 results)
City of Heroes Update Plans
A blog
update by Matt Miller on PlayNC.com
outlines what's been going on behind-the-scenes at NCSoft following the full
acquisition of the City of Heroes franchise, discussing special events and
future plans, including a bit on the coming Chapter 12 content update, titled
"Midnight Ho...
Battlefield Heroes Q&A
EA Goes Free-To-Play: Battlefield Heroes' Producer Speaks on Gamasutra chats
with Ben Cousins, producer on Battlefield Heroes, the upcoming
free-to-play installment in the Battlefield series of military shooters. They
discuss the game's cutting-edge business model as well as stuff like graph...
Battlefield Heroes to Launch with Two Maps
The
Battlefield Heroes Q&A on Gamasutra mentioned the other day includes a
tidbit about the upcoming free installment in the Battlefield series we
overlooked at the time (thanks
FiringSquad). In what may be a case of getting what you pay for, producer
Ben Cousins revealed the game wil...
Battlefield Heroes Trailer, Details
Planet
Battlefield has a new Battlefield Heroes trailer (thanks Ant) along with
word that the invitation-only beta test for the multiplier shooter will begin on
May 6. They also have a couple of other details about the game, including word
that the client download has been optimized to be ab...
Battlefield Heroes Movie
Planet
Battlefield (thanks Ant) has ShakyCam video of a Battlefield Heroes
presentation where DICE executive producer Ben Cousins introduces the interface
from the coming free-to-play installment in the multiplayer military shooter
series. He describes and shows off the web development they ...
Battlefield Heroes Beta Clarification
The
Battlefield Heroes Website has a new post outlining plans for closed beta
testing for DICE's upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter:As you may
have noticed, you killed our website. We are not angry. We’re very pleased you
want to be in the Beta.
The beta for Heroes will be divide...
Battlefield Heroes Beta Application
Broken
Eggs Media Forums have an
Official Battlefield Heroes Beta Application (thanks Ant and
Planet
Battlefield), presumably the follow up on DICE saying they "have asked a
third party to find us some specialist Beta testers" (story).
...
Battlefield Heroes Beta Security Issue
The
Battlefield Heroes Website has details on a security issue with their
partner running beta testing of Battlefield Heroes:Security Notice:
QA Boss has been made aware of a security breach which exposes QA Boss forum
user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. While passwords are
...
City of Heroes & Villains Merge
NCsoft announces the merger of City of Heroes and City of Villains, the
complementary super-powered MMORPGs that for some reason had not been
consolidated prior to now. They say this will lay the groundwork for future
projects to be announced later this year. The
City of Heroes Community Si...
Battlefield Heroes Delay
From today's EA investor conference call discussing
their financial reporting,
Shacknews reports that
Battlefield Heroes will be delayed until later this year, quoting EA CEO
John Riccitiello as saying "We decided to increase its focus on some of the
social networking features."&n...
Additional Battlefield Heroes Keys Coming
The Battlefield
Heroes Website follows the news that DICE's upcoming free-to-play shooter is
delayed (story), saying that additional beta keys are coming as a
consolation prize:Since there were a couple of disappointed comments to
our recent news of delay (very glad to see so many people are...
City of Heroes Paid Character Respecs
The
City of Heroes Website announces that the superhero MMORPG now offers the
option of purchasing character Respecs:City of Heroes has
expanded their suite of available purchasable services to include Character
Respecs (short for Respecifications). Over the course of leveling up, there are ...
Battlefield Heroes Beta Key Glitch
The
Battlefield Heroes Website has word that demand for beta keys has put their
server out of commission, and they are embarking on maintenance to bolster it
for future demand: Turns out there were so many people waiting to win a
Beta key that the server basically...up and croaked.
Talk ...
DICE: BF Heroes "Already Released"
There's a Ben
Cousins Q&A on GamesIndustry.biz talking with the executive producer on
Battlefield Heroes about DICE's subscription-free MMO shooter. Topics
include how they've scaled battles back to 16 players (they will look at
expanding this to 64 over time), what they've learned from ...
Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East Patch
New Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East patches are now
available to update the turn-based strategy expansion to version 3.1. The
patches can be found on
AtomicGamer,
FileFront, Gamer's Hell,
and The Patches Scrolls.
...
Battlefield Heroes Video
A new movie from Battlefield Heroes offers a look at combat in EA's
upcoming subscription-free multiplayer shooter. The clip begins like a vintage
newsreel before segueing to show off the game's stylized graphics and
over-the-top gameplay, including vehicles, a number of different weapons and ...
