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Prior to Grand Theft Auto 5′s release, we learned Rockstar Games would require both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players to install 8GB of data onto their hard drives prior to being able to play the game. This seemed like a pretty crazy amount of data to be installed, although EA has upped the ante as they will give Xbox 360 players the option to install 14GB of data onto their hard drives. (more…)

DICE Recommends Xbox 360 Battlefield 4 Players Install 14GB Of Content Onto Their Drives original content from Ubergizmo.

If you’ve wanted to immerse your body in a first-person shooter, you’ve typically had to use a complex simulator. Battlefield 4 may soon provide a decidedly simpler (and cheaper) alternative. DICE’s Patrick Bach has revealed to Xbox Wire that the game may use the Xbox One’s Kinect sensor for head-tracking look controls, such as leaning around a corner. Voice commands might also be available, Bach says. There’s no guarantees that BF4 will get the new input methods, but DICE may have competition as an incentive. Infinity Ward recently hinted to Official Xbox Magazine that Call of Duty: Ghosts could use Kinect for more than navigating menus, so there’s a chance that at least one of the two games will have motion control in the future.

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Via: Eurogamer

Source: Xbox Wire

Earlier this year, we did talk about how DICE+ could eventually end up to be one of the more innovative controllers around, and we are pleased to announce that DICE+ is finally available as a retail unit. Developers would have gotten a closer look at DICE+ earlier this year since the developer’s kit for this special peripheral shipped already. Here is a little background on what DICE+ is all about – as its name suggests, the DICE+ happens to be a six-sided die that features an accelerometer, a magnetic field sensor, Bluetooth 2.1 and 4.0 compatibility, independent touch-sensitive faces, half a dozen LEDs which are capable of glowing in most colors imaginable, a battery life of 20 hours, a microUSB port that paves the way for you to juice it up, and a thermometer.

Phew! That is definitely a long list of features, don’t you think so? Not only that, it comes with a free app that can be found on the iOS app store which will play nice with the dice’s connectivity, alongside seven other games to help you get started and familiarized with it. The retail DICE+ kit will cost you $40, and it will come with a microUSB cable to boot. Any takers?

DICE+ Is Now Available original content from Ubergizmo.

In holiday 2011, while fans of both the Call of Duty and Battlefield series were gearing up for virtual war, the publishers behind each megafranchise were gearing up for a different type of virtual war. With the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision’s in-game social network — dubbed “Call of Duty Elite” — went live. Just prior, alongside the launch of competing title Battlefield 3, EA introduced its “Battlelog” system. And thus began a parallel virtual war for fans’ loyalty, battled via user numbers and engagement metrics. It’s a pretty boring war, but its armaments are the games many of us know and love.

The first-person-shooter social network war continues to this day (in silence, of course), with EA recently stepping up its rhetoric surrounding this October’s entry, Battlefield 4. Since E3, where some new Battlelog features were shown for the first time during EA’s presser, the company’s released its first big Battlelog marketing video (seen below). But we wanted more details about what the first next-gen version of Battlelog will look like, and what EA’s DICE studio has been able to accomplish with new hardware.

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We had a feeling that EA and DICE could be announcing a sequel to Mirror’s Edge, and sure enough they have. DICE has officially taken the wraps off the new game although instead of being called Mirror’s Edge 2, it […]

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