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There’s a recent trend where game developers are using social media to incorporate ideas, creative input or feedback from fans into their projects. An example of this was the shield design contest for Dark Souls which was announced on Facebook a couple of weeks ago.
BioWare is the latest developer to follow suit by asking Mass Effect fans to vote for one of six female Shepard designs on Facebook simply by ‘Liking’ their favourite image. The one with the most likes at the end of the promotion will be used as a default female protagonist in Mass Effect 3.
Insomniac Games recently confirmed news that the planned multiplayer beta for Resistance 3 will go live next month, in early August, for North American gamers who bought SOCOM 4 and European gamers signed up to PlayStation Plus.
Cause for celebration, we at El33tonline would definitely say, but what’s going to keep us busy until then and help us unlock content for Resistance 3?
What about a newly revealed web-based social game called Global Resistance?
Hey everybody!
Did you know that El33tonline is on Facebook and Twitter? You didn’t?!
Well that’s too bad, because we’ve been hooked up to these excellent social spots for quite some time now, and we’d like to invite you to join us there so you can stay in the loop regarding the most important videogame news, reviews, previews and competitions!
If you please, you can hit us up on Twitter over here (click that ‘Follow’ button), and become a Facebook friend over here (just ‘Like’ that page).
Most of all, we’d like to hear from you through these magical portals of connectivity about your thoughts on current games and news, and our reviews and previews, too!
Also, if you’re connected with us on Facebook and Twitter, you’ll be able to easily enter some of our future competitions for chances (and extra chances) to win the latest games and cool hampers!
Hope to see you there!
- The El33tonline Team
PS. Have you seen those keen Twitter and Facebook links at the top of our posts? Why not hit the ‘Tweet’ and ‘Like’ buttons sometime to show your interests to your friends? It’s super easy!
As is becoming de rigueur, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal are promising fans of the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution some extra, behind-the-scenes content from the game leading up to its release in August.
The price of this content? A single ‘Like’ on Facebook from you.
Hey everybody!
Did you know that El33tonline is on Facebook and Twitter? You didn’t?!
Well that’s too bad, because we’ve been hooked up to these excellent social spots for quite some time now, and we’d like to invite you to join us there so you can stay in the loop regarding the most important videogame news, reviews and previews!
If you please, you can hit us up on Twitter over here (click that ‘Follow’ button), and become a Facebook friend over here (just ‘Like’ that page).
Most of all, we’d like to hear from you through these magical portals of connectivity about your thoughts on current games and news, and our reviews and previews, too!
Also, if you’re connected with us on Facebook and Twitter, you’ll be able to easily enter some of our future competitions for chances (and extra chances) to win the latest games and cool hampers!
Hope to see you there!
- The El33tonline Team
PS. Have you seen those keen Facebook links on all of our posts? Why not ‘Like’ one of our stories sometime to show your interests to your friends?
Nintendo South Africa is currently running a competition where you could win a Nintendo hamper valued at a whopping R13 000!
Interested? Of course you are!
To enter the competition, all you need to do is visit Nintendo South Africa’s Facebook page, and upload onto the page a picture or video of you ‘interacting’ with a Nintendo product (be it a game or console). The picture or video with the most ‘Likes’ wins the prizes.
Easy like that.
The competition ends on March 31st (this year…), so visit Nintendo South Africa’s Facebook page to get uploadin’!
[Update] It seems as though the ‘Free Weekend’ has been cancelled in the UK… details below. [End of Update]
Just a reminder: If you’re the proud owner of an Xbox 360 and you’ve been itching to find out what this ‘Xbox LIVE Gold membership’ is all about, then you’ve got an excellent opportunity to do so this weekend thanks to one of the service’s ‘Free Weekend’ offers.
Following the official launch of Xbox LIVE in South Africa in November last year, Xbox 360 South Africa has let us know that Facebook and Twitter functionality will become available to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers on the local online service from today!
Additionally, a ‘My Community’ channel will be added to the LIVE Dashboard as part of an “ongoing commitment to providing quality gaming and entertainment in the living room.”
Developer of the acclaimed Civilization series of strategy games, Firaxis Games, has been affected by a round of staff layoffs, as 20 members of the 130-strong team leave the studio.
Firaxis owner Take-Two said that the cuts were made to “maximise the overall performance of the studio,” and assured fans that work on neither the upcoming Civilisation V, nor the in-development Civilisation Facebook game, would be affected by the layoffs:
Sony has announced that a new PS3 firmware update is now available. The new update (v3.40) adds new features to the PS3, including the ability to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription as well as improving the connection between gamers’ PlayStation Network and Facebook accounts.
The publisher will also be launching a system software update (v6.30) for the PSP. This update will add PlayStation Plus compatibility for gamers that own both a PS3 and PSP and will be launched simultaneously with the PS3 firmware update.
Blitz 1Up, Regolith Games and Konami have finally released some official information regarding KrissX, the mysterious puzzle game that was announced to be heading to Xbox LIVE Marketplace today, but now with the new information, it’s not so mysterious anymore.
KrissX (pronounced ‘kriss cross’) is a word puzzle game that is “designed to test your vocab and brain power to their limits with a plethora of mind-bending word games,” plus more besides.
Bioware, a division of EA, recently announced that it has set new records for site traffic in EA’s substantial network of affiliated sites this year with its DragonAge.com domain, while a new record for new user registrations has also been set with the developer’s social networking site, Social.bioware.com, with over five million users signing up at the site after the release of the developer’s latest game, Dragon Age: Origins.
Additionally, 30 000 people have signed up at the Dragon Age fan page on Facebook since June this year, making it the fastest-growing EA property on the social networking site.
Now that Dragon Age: Origins has been released, the anticipation for Mass Effect 2 is clearly leading to similar statistics for that game - a 33% increase in traffic has already been observed since the Special Edition announcement early in November.
EA has been making strides in recent years to move towards an online model for the distribution of its games with the implementation of its own digital distribution network and the continued experiment of the third-person free-to-play action shooter, Battlefield Heroes.
These online ambitions were recently hammered home with the publisher’s acquisition of social online gaming company Playfish, as well as
the company’s restructuring process (resulting in 1500 jobs being cut) to specifically target the online, and even social networking, arena.
Now it seems the Command & Conquer series is set to follow EA’s online strategy, if words from head of the franchise, Jon Van Caneghem, are anything to go by.
When discussing a range of topics including the future of Command & Conquer, the idea of ‘software as a service,’ the strategy genre in general and attempts to popularise the brand, Van Caneghem said:
As a resident of the State of New York, in the future you may be able to receive advance emergency warnings of natural or man-made disasters via Xbox LIVE, the PlayStation Network, the Wii’s online service, and other online gaming networks, if current tests are anything to go by.
According to New York State Deputy CIO Rico Singleton, in the event of a dangerous and life-threatening event, such as extreme weather or (heaven forbid) a terrorist attack, the state’s Emergency Management Office intends to be able to issue alerts over online gaming networks, as well as regular channels, in order to best reach and warn younger residents.
Singleton believes this to be a good plan “considering the amount of time our youth spend on video games,” he said.
Last week Microsoft launched new social media features for Xbox Live including Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Yesterday the publisher confirmed that since then millions of Xbox Live users have used these new features.
At least two million Xbox Live users have logged into Facebook using their consoles in the first week of its availability according to Microsoft spokesman David Dennis. This equates to roughly one tenth of the 20 million total Xbox Live users trying Facebook in the first week alone.
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