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Despite the closure of the physical offices of Pandemic Studios, the originators of the Mercenaries series of open-world action games, EA has announced that a new Mercenaries game is in development at its EA LA studio under the Pandemic label, where a number of ex-Pandemic staffers were relocated in order to further develop intellectual property under EA.

EA senior VP Nick Earl enthused: “We are very excited to announce a new installment in the popular Mercenaries series because it demonstrates our continued commitment to Pandemic’s rich catalog of intellectual properties.

“From the studio at EA LA, a core creative team is forging new ground and conceptualizing new ideas for this exciting franchise.”

Under the working title of Mercs Inc., existence of this newly announced game was unofficially revealed by way of a leaked video (which you can view below) which showed early concept-level footage of what appears to be (and is reportedly) a fully cooperative experience, with a special focus on playing with friends.

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Well, it wouldn’t be a highly anticipated game release without a little console competition. To further stoke the flames of the console wars, here’s a video of Mercenaries 2 being played on both an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, side-by-side, to examine which is graphically superior.

Other than revealing the suspect voice acting (no differences there), can you actually tell the difference, other than hue changes? Maybe the PS3 has slightly sharper textures…maybe…