EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: brink
Haven’t yet had a chance to try out the team-based first-person shooter from Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks? Good news for you then, because Brink is available for free over Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam, this weekend!
Why would the developer/publisher pair provide such an offer? To celebrate the addition of new community tools!
One of the leading ADSL internet service and solutions providers in South Africa, Afrihost, has just announced that the company’s latest product has been launched in the form of its new AfriGamer Servers.
“Loaded with some popular gaming titles,” writes the announcement, “now is the time to get online and start gaming.”
With AfriGamer Servers, Afrihost is providing online gaming servers for five extremely popular competitive multiplayer games, with more to follow in the coming weeks.
The current line-up of game servers includes:
After receiving an official release date earlier this week, the ‘Agents of Change’ downloadable content for Splash Damage’s Brink is now available on all platforms for free… at least for the next two weeks.
Brink has been in desperate need of a bit of freshening up for a while now, despite the release of a few patches since its release in early May, and luckily for those of you who have stuck with Splash Damage and Bethesda’s multiplayer-based first-person shooter, the planned and promised ‘Agents of Change’ downloadable content is due for release this week across all platforms.
The NPD results for May are out and Microsoft has already issued a response to bask in the glory of their victory.
We’re talking about the Xbox 360 being the top-selling console in the US last month with 270 000 units sold.
According to the Official Microsoft Blog Xbox 360 console sales were up 39% year-on-year during May, “the largest growth of any current generation console on the market.” May was also the 17th month of year-on-year hardware sales increases.
US sales tracking and research firm The NPD Group has just revealed sales figures for the country’s videogame industry for the month of May 2011. The picture painted is not quite as rosy as April 2011’s, with sales across hardware, software and accessories showing a 14% decrease to $743 million.
Despite a massive 56% drop in sales compared to the week previous, Rockstar and Team Bondi’s action thriller LA Noire is still able to command the top position on Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing.
Around the same time that Bethesda Softworks officially announced its new romance with Splash Damage the couple promptly revealed that they were already working on a new baby. Anxious fans received much in the way of screenshots, concept art, developer diaries, in-game demo’s and a long list of planned features… but also protracted delays. After two years of unbridled anticipation, Brink has finally arrived!
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Brink.
It’s been another busy week here at El33t Towers, with plenty of E3 news already starting to trickle in over the past few days.
Next week will be a crazy time, with the team working around the clock to bring you the latest announcements and reveals from LA. However, before then the show must go on so we’ll be hard at work this weekend putting the latest titles through their paces to keep you up to date on what’s new on our gaming shelves.
Take a deep breath everyone, it’s almost E3 time! Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
“More than a million matches. Over 10 billion XP points earned. And more than 80 years of playtime. Wow, you’ve been busy!”
From the looks of those stats, Brink players have been busy indeed, and now Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players of Brink will be able to track and view statistics like these for the game, and more, including “in-depth players stats, match summaries, and the Battle for the Ark – a weekly meta-game between Security and Resistance.”
How will this be done? With Brink’s online statistics site, viewable over here.
Developer Splash Damage has let us know that title updates are now available for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Brink, while detailing plans for upcoming downloadable content and the ‘statistics site’ page for the consoles.
As Tom points out below, South Africa has recently become gripped in a severely icy chill which is (hopefully) due dissipate in the next few days, but it’s no longer deniable: Old Man Winter has arrived in the country, and he’s as grumpy as ever.
What’s a gamer to do? Again, Tom provides an interesting thought on the correct course of action to take while ensconced in the cold, as do other members of El33tonline as we discuss what will be keeping us warm over the next two days:
Is it any surprise that Rockstar’s latest published title was able to rocket to the top of Chart Track’s UK Software Sales listing this past week? Surely not – this is the studio behind chart kings Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, after all!
So it is that LA Noire (developed by Team Bondi) has managed to claim the top spot on the UK sales chart, becoming the 13th fastest selling title in the UK on Xbox 360, and 11th fastest on PlayStation 3, while also netting itself the tag of fastest selling new videogame intellectual property in the UK!
But how were LA Noire’s console sales split?
So what’s going on this weekend? Last week we managed to escape Friday the 13th unscathed, but this time the hammer has yet to drop, so we’ll be waiting nervously until the end of Saturday to find out if we ‘make it’ or not…
… or we’ll just be playing games without a care in the world. Probably this.
The team at El33tonline has recently been injected with a massive dose of brand new games, so without further ado, let’s find out what everyone will be up to this weekend, and what games we’ll be playing:
Sometimes, there are pieces of interesting and/or important and/or specific videogame news that pass enthusiasts by as other more interesting and/or important and/or specific videogame news is revealed, but instead of catching up to it eventually, we’re going to try and catch up with it now.
So… what interesting and/or important and/or specific videogame news has emerged over the last few days that we’d like to discuss? The release of downloadable content (DLC) and updates for Brink, SHIFT 2 Unleashed, Fallout: New Vegas and Crysis 2, as well as news on free Witcher 2 DLC:
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