Improved Matchmaking Beta playlist removed following successful testing.
"Thanks to everyone who played in our Improved Matchmaking Beta during the last week," the developer wrote on the game's site. "As of tonight you'll notice that option is no longer in the menu. We've updated Attrition and Hardpoints modes (non-Campaign) with improved matchmaking, so you'll be playing it automatically."
The improvements should ensure that players are correctly matched with similarly-skilled opponents and reduce the amount of games featuring unbalanced teams.
Respawn adds that it will "continue updating matchmaking for the other modes" and asks players...
Reveals some impressive stats about the imminent MMO.
Some other stats and facts about the game reveal the number of character variations players can make (it's a number so big you won't be able to comprehend its magnitude), the number of books you can read, and the amount of mudcrab deaths you will be responsible for in order to reach level 50.
The Elder Scrolls Online officially launches on April 4 for PC, with versions for Xbox One and PS4 set to follow in June.
Don't know which buttons to press? EA releases tutorial video on how to trick on the pitch.
Want to pull off skill moves and celebrations in 2014 FIFA World Cup but don't know which buttons to press?
EA has released a new video highlighting the button prompts required to perform various tricks on the pitch, revealing how to pull off backheels to control and pass the ball, distract penalty takers with the Grobbelaar and perform goal celebrations.
You can check it out for yourself in the video above.
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil launches on Xbox 360 and PS3 on April 17, and while it isn't coming to PS4 or Xbox One, you can give it a go today by...
For some reason, though, it currently appears to be available on Xbox 360 for a lower than expected price of £8.06. Ghosts' previous pack Onslaught cost £11.59 suggesting it could be a pricing error. If you want in, download it quick.
Devastation includes four new maps – Ruins, Collision, Behemoth and Unearthed - and a brand new weapon, The Ripper, which is able to transform from an SMG into an assault rifle.
The next chapter of co-op mode Extinction is also included, which sees players eradicating aliens aboard an abandoned Chinese ship in the South Pacific Ocean....
"With Reaper of Souls, we wanted to emphasize all the things that Diablo gamers have always loved about the series, from the dark gothic setting to the piles and piles of epic loot," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're excited to see that players are enjoying the changes we've made to the game, and we look forward to achieving our Paragon levels alongside everyone else in the weeks and months ahead."
To date the game's final boss has been defeated more than 1.5 million times, Blizzard added.
"There are times when decisions need to be made to realign plans and refocus our efforts," says Microsoft.
A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs in a statement provided to VideoGamer.com this afternoon, stating:
"At Xbox, our goal is to constantly create new fun, social and interactive entertainment experiences. As part of our commitment to this goal, we are always evaluating our development priorities, and there are times when decisions need to be made to realign plans and refocus our efforts.
"Microsoft Studios continues to grow as an overall organization as we focus and invest in key priority areas that will drive future profitable growth."
Halo AI to become your personal assistant in next Windows Phone update.
Halo's famous AI will soon be available as a personal assistant in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update and functions similarly to Apple's Siri, helping users organise their life and assist with daily routines.
"Cortana is inspired by real personal assistants, so she acts like one," explained Windows Phone Group Program Manager Marcus Ash. "A great example of this is for travel. Cortana knows when you’re planning to travel. She’ll track your flight, advise you when to leave early due to bad traffic, inform you of the weather at your destination, and keep you up-to-date on...
How to complete the side op with an S rank, and grab some achievements/trophies along the way.
The mission starts with Snake in the back of a truck, and you are going to stay in this vehicle until it enters a guard gate. Once you hear the sirens of the gate opening, jump out the back of the truck and head left, climb over all the piping and stay along the right-hand wall.
A guard will walk from right to left and stand guard for a moment behind a metal freight. Mark him with your binoculars before he goes behind the metal crate, as the second he turns around you’re going to head left and up the ladder. Don’t tranquilize him, as the guards who head to check the security...
Kim Swift and Clink Hocking are now making games for Fire TV and Kindle Fire.
Swift joined Amazon this month and is best known for her work on Portal, but went on to work with Airtight Games on Quantum Conundrum.
Hocking has been at Amazon since February, having previously worked on Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2 at Ubisoft. He later joined LucasArts and Valve leaving the latter in December 2013.
Amazon appears to be making a considerable investment in its Amazon Game Studios development team, which has already cranked out Fire TV exclusive Sev Zero. Many more titles are on the way, as you can see in the trailer below.
Attendees will be offered the chance to go hands-on with Turtle Rock's multiplayer shooter months ahead of its release this autumn, which sees four players teaming up to take down a powerful monster controlled by another person.
"We are really excited that UK fans can finally play our first new IP for next-gen systems and experience the unique 4v1 gameplay for themselves at the Gadget Show Live," said 2K's UK marketing manager Simon Turner.
Gadget Show Live kicks off at the NEC in Birmingham next Wednesday, April 9 until Sunday, April 13. If you want in, head through...
Project Morpheus and Oculus Rift support in the pipe, too.
The Farm 51 has revealed the first gameplay footage of next year's first-person horror Get Even.
The footage forms a part of a new Making Of documentary in which the developer discusses its intentions to blend traditional single and multiplayer experiences into a unique campaign and tell a "complex, mature and very immersive story in a manner that has not been employed in games before".
"Get Even is a game which uses standard game tools to tell a non-standard story," explains lead designer Woljciech Pazdur. "The shooting itself is only a part of the experience, which...
Combines third-person action with tower defense strategic base building.
The game combines third-person action/shooting with tower defense-style strategic base building, challenging players to complete 15 levels and prevent an alien threat from taking over their home planet.
Sev Zero is is free with the purchase of the Fire TV's game controller.
More games from Amazon Game Studios built from the ground up for Amazon devices are promised for the future.
DICE has yet to clarify why the pack has seen a week-long delay, but it's likely due to the problems experienced with the content's initial Premium roll-out which saw the DLC delayed on Xbox One and PC.
At the time, the developer said that Premium members would still receive two weeks early access to the content, but it wasn't clear that this would also affect the roll-out on unaffected platforms, including PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360.
According to our reviewer, however, Battlefield 4's ongoing network problems continue to cause problems for the DLC, who states that...
Launches throughout the rest of the world are promised soon.
"Hearthstone's player base has already grown to more than 10 million registered accounts following the official Windows and Mac release, but we saw that a few people online were holding out for the iPad version," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Instead of calling those folks up individually, we figured we might as well let everyone know that the global iPad rollout for Hearthstone has begun, and pretty soon it'll be available everywhere.
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