EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: homefront
Following the original release of 2011’s Homefront, THQ has announced plans to release an ‘Ultimate Edition’ version of the military-themed first-person shooter here in 2012.
The release of THQ and Kaos Studios’ Homefront earlier this year was met with a less than stellar critical response as gamers bemoaned the extraordinarily short and underwhelming singleplayer campaign, but paused to heap at least a little praise on the game’s multiplayer.
Despite encouraging sales numbers (especially for a brand new intellectual property competing in the cutthroat military shooter genre), Kaos Studios was shut down at THQ’s behest, leaving the future of the Homefront franchise in doubt.
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:
The new ROCK map pack is now available for Xbox 360 Homefront players. It will cost you 400 MS Points from Xbox LIVE.
A perfectly good day had to go and be ruined by an awful round of news from the world of game development, didn’t it?
It’s been revealed that the New York-based Homefront developer Kaos Studios is shutting down, while UK-based studio THQ Digital Warrington will suffer the same fate.
THQ had a well-rounded line-up going into E3 and as a result we enjoyed some awesome screenshots and explosive trailers from the publisher.
Kaos Studios has quietly released a new update for the Xbox 360 version of Homefront which aims to improve game stability, and includes “various other fixes.”
With the release of this latest patch for Homefront, look out for the ‘Ability Pack’ downloadable content (DLC), which will open up to you after you’ve updated your game to the latest version.
Details of another DLC offering on June 7th have also been revealed – find out about the fixes have been made to Homefront, the new content you have access to, and what this ‘Fire Sale’ map pack is all about:
THQ and Kaos Studios’ Homefront released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC only a few weeks ago to impressive commercial success, selling over one million units during the first week of availability, and 375 000 copies in the US on day one!
For a new intellectual property competing in the extremely cut-throat military-themed first-person shooter market, this is incredible!
El33tonline and Ster Kinekor recently gave you a chance to win a copy of Homefront on all platforms, and we’ve collected the names of the winners! Are you one of them?
Update Read Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft’s responses to this month’s NPD report over here, with further sales figures for all platforms. End of Update
US sales tracking and research firm The NPD Group has released its monthly report on the state of the US videogame industry. According to NPD, $1.54 billion in sales across hardware, software and accessories segments of the market was recorded for the month of March 2011, down 4% compared to the same month in 2010, despite the launch of the 3DS and the release of Pokemon Black and White.
Following in the wake of similarly upsetting news regarding redundancies at Sony Online Entertainment’s range of in-house studios, THQ has today confirmed that layoffs have hit two of its developers – Kaos Studios and Volition.
16 employees at the Champaign, Illinois-based Volition Inc. have been let go in an effort to “adjust [THQ’s] workforce to fit the studio’s current needs, which is a relatively common occurrence in the game development industry.”
The long-awaited Homefront released just last month to an impressive reception, and since launch the military-themed first-person shooter has gone on to sell over one million copies around the world after enjoying great day one sales success in the US, with 375 000 units being sold in the country during the first 24 hours of availability!
For a brand new intellectual property in one region, this is highly impressive!
El33tonline and Ster Kinekor are giving you a chance to see what all the fuss is about in our latest competition, as we’re giving away copies of Homefront across all platforms!
To stand a chance of winning Homefront on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or PC, you can head on over to El33tonline’s Homefront Competition page and answer a question that we’ve put to you. You may need to think about it for a while in order answer completely honestly…
It’s that glorious time of the week once again when we can sit back, relax and get some more gaming time in. So apart from wishing you all a great weekend, here’s a sneak peek into what the El33tonline team is looking forward to playing this weekend:
You don’t need me to tell you that the realism-based first-person shooter genre is overcrowded. You don’t need me to tell you that this self-same genre is hot business in the game industry as publishers vie to create ‘the next big thing.’ Similarly, you don’t need me to tell you how fierce the competition for online multiplayer supremacy is within this genre, as titans of the videogame world slog it out to try and invite you into their universe (and keep you there) with dozens of addictive tricks, desperately aiming to lock you into the game.
You also don’t need me to tell you about the stratospheric quality that most of these games boast, with production values to match Hollywood blockbuster films and gameplay refinement to effortlessly remove all obstacles towards enjoying an awesome, fulfilling experience.
You may need someone to tell you about Homefront, however, to let you know how this game fits in with those ‘titans.’ While THQ and Kaos Studios have produced a ‘contender’ for the first-person shooter crown, Call of Duty, Battlefield and even Half-Life 2 still remain the kings of the realm.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Homefront.
This week, Chart Track’s UK Software sales listing is invaded by no less than nine titles for the Nintendo 3DS, as seven of those games make it into the Top Twenty, but which multiplatform game managed to rise above the rest and hit No. 1 on the chart?
Crysis 2.
There’s always tons of activity behind the scenes here at El33tonline, but we’re never quite able to let you in on what’s going down, or tell you what we’re up to.
This all changes today, and starting this week we’ll endeavour to spill on some of these activities while giving you a heads-up on what you can expect from us in the coming days (and weeks), so let’s kick off our debut ‘Pre-W33kend Post’ quick-smart as a few of us chat about what we’re looking forward to playing this weekend:
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