Battlefield: Bad Company demo on June 5th

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:09:46 GMT

Dice is now preparing for the release of Battlefield: Bad Company and has a demo slated for June 5th on Xbox Live, in anticipation of their retail releases on June 25th in North America and June 27th in Europe. The Battlefield: Bad Company beta has since come and long gone now for this game, but now its time to ramp those servers back up again and get some game on via a demo.

If you've followed any number of Podcasts and gaming sites over the past couple days then you more and likely saw them giving away codes to get in before the public date of June 5th. This is what I call a soft launch and a controlled demo release.

But come June 5th, you can expect to see larger numbers of fans playing the demo and working their ranks up. Its nice to see Dice giving these codes to the masses of Podcasters, Bloggers, and Indie game reporters to give away to their audiences. After all this was the same groups that spoke out about the micro transaction ideas, discovered from the beta, to unlock certain weapons in the game. This was just what a beta was suppose to do, the unexpected feedback helped change those portions and have now provided ways to unlock those weapons with out any extra costs.

So mark your calendars for some gaming action and take a look at what Battlefield: Bad Company has to offer now. Here is what you have in store when you get in to the demo on June 5th.

Demo includes:
Single player
· Early look into the quest for Gold with Bad Company

Multiplayer
· Play the all-new Gold Rush mode on the Oasis map, featuring land, sea and air vehicles.
· Reach rank 4 in the demo to unlock an exclusive in-game weapon

CoD4 Variety Map Pack is available April 3rd

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:49:23 GMT

It's time for four more maps on CoD4, talk about a breath of fresh air for the game of the year title. A little something for everyone is available in this collection and I can honestly say that I think I'm looking forward to every map in this pack.

Broadcast was one of my favorite levels in the campaign and I like close combat fighting and looking forward to some team death match with my friends on this map. Plenty of places to move and multiple levels, not to mention various methods to assault the main room.

Creek is a snipers playground and I'm looking forward to checking out every part of this map and working on my sniping skills. A lot of people like to run and gun, but I get more fun watching and picking off from a distances sometimes, not to mention its just cool when someone walks right by you hiding in some grass and never looking twice.

Chinatown is the nighttime map in the bunch and looks to be very promising from screen shots and video clips that I've seen so far. Finishing up the pack is the Free For All Killhouse and could be fun for some custom practice on take a buildings and such as that. Why not use it for some practice and general tactics right, its what the thing was built for, right?

Check out the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow and grab this sure to be instant hit for only 800 MS points. If you don't have enough on hand, I'm sure they'll help you out and bill your card at checkout time. I'll see you in the battle, unless you see me first that is.

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Battlefield: Bad Company demo on June 5th

CoD4 Variety Map Pack is available April 3rd