Battlefield 3 A***a servers are being flooded by D.I.C.E happy fans ....the 2011 gaming season is now officially op3n

Any more than that I cannot say or D.I.C.E will take my A***a invite away ... interestingly for thegameveda , this is the first time I have used Origin , and if anything can break Steam`s monopoly it will be the release , and more importantly the maintenance and upkeep of Battlefield 3 , patches DLC , and frankly a way more impressive interface than Steam for blogging  and social gaming and gathering from what I have seen so far.... using Origin that is.... I did not reveal any details of the Alp......Mr EA exec ... honest ... right time to Oscar Mike ... before they nab me ... see you on the Battlefield ..3....and if you see me there .. you didn`t see me o.k. ???


The world as we knew it may going to the Simpsons ... but one thing is constant if you play games then life is good ..... grab some friends ( across the world ) and get set as the Battlefield 3 Alpha marks the opening of  the 2011 gaming season ... 


And this year it looks like EA`s Origin is going to play a big part in the festivities ....


Pre order Battlefield 3 from Game or Zavvi in the UK 


and  in the USA 


  

and as  my lips are sealed ( Mr EA Exec ) re the Battlefield 3 Alpha I leave you with a video of the greatest D.I.C.E game ever ..try doing any of this in your Call Of Duty games......

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follow D.I.C.E here  and see you on the [virtual] Battlefields!

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Enter your Steam Battlefield 3 keys into Origin to begin downloading your Beta now

2011 is the year digital game distribution  branches out from from Steam to streaming with onlive ,Gaikai and now with the Battlefield 3 Beta to Origin . I have no idea if Valve will ever make up with EA , but who cares is the likely happy battlecry as D.I.C.E. aficionados around the world enter their Steam Battlefield 3 beta keys into Origin . You will find your Beta key in the properties box of Medal Of Honor , I had to download Medal Of Honor to bring up the key , then just cut and paste into the redeem code box of Origin ....


right my download has completed time to see if I can play.....

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Origin vs Black Friday sales : $30 off Battlefield 3 , buy one get one , 50 % off 200 titles and more

Black Friday only 50% off All Games box and PCDD from Origin Powered by EA
 Offer Expires 11/26/11

$30 off Battlefield 3 - Black Friday Buy Now!

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Battlefield 3 50% off on Origin , and 50 % off everything else on the Orign Store now

Merry Christmas from thegameveda and whilst your surfing the interweb for deals do not forget  you can pick up Battlefield 3 and everything else on the Origin store 50% off for a limited time and sans leaving the comfort of your back lit keyboard..

Origin Powered by EA - After Christmas Sale 50% off Storewide Sale Buy Now!

Origin Powered by EA - 50% off Need for Speed The Run, Battlefield 3 and Batman: Arkham City (All platforms) Buy Now!

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Download Kingdom`s of Amalur : Reckoning demo now on Origin

At this time of year , where we start saving for Ivy Bridge , iPad 3s , Transformer Primes , and 7970`s ,  i.e. hardware  ,  purchasing software has to be put on hold , so what better than to test your newly switched on 100 meg broadband than to download a free demo , wow , it has been so long since I downloaded a demo for a pc game ,  but since EA sent me a nice email I think I will give it a try . Although one must resist all software purchases if one is going to save up for ones hardware upgrades .... yeah like that plan is going to work... 

download Kingdom`s of  Amalur : Reckoning demo now on Origin ... if only Steam were as nice with it`s emails....


The game developed by Big Huge Games of Rise of Nations , and Catan fame , has a nice set of intro videos , and little touches like having Claudia Black doing voice over duty should  see EA  pull in the  geek dollar faster than  a MMO Gold mining syndicate... want to test that theory ? Why not watch a demo video narrated by the dulcet tones of everyone`s favourite Peacekeeper:

console fans can pre order the game from Game and Zavvi , the UK release date is 10/02/12 . 

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EA Valantine's Day Massacre 50 % off Crysis 2 Battlefield 2 Medal of Honor Bulletstorm

How does EA do Valentine's day ? Well more in a Valentine's Day Massacre than the choccies and flowers style. For with 50 % off Origin downloads of almost all EAs FPS games , the only red decorating your EA Valentine experience will be the bits of gib and virtual slomo evisceration decorating your pc monitor in the likes of Bullet Storm , Battlefield , Crysis 2 and Medal of Honor .


The real bargain here is the classic Medal Of Honor Airborne . Which was the zenith of EA trying to do something different to the military fps , bringing to a sad end the open ended multi route gameplay that EA was imbuing the Medal of Honor Series with. You see time was when MOH was the Call of Duty of its generation. But like all FPS games , it was really just based on a linear series of tunnels mapped with scenery and interspersed with set pieces and cut scenes . Which sounds scarily like COD now doesn't it Treyarch and Infinity Ward ( whats left of you )?


Then EA got brave , and the last few WW2 set MOH games had open ended maps with open ended objectives ,and routes , not just a linear corridor fps game with set pieces , and this for me makes them far better than the later MOH and FPS games that are all aping COD which of course apes the original MOH formula! In Airborne the game environment is key , a town is a town , you chose your entry point , multiple battles are going on in multiple locations you chose how and which order to tackle them , this actually gives you a far better impression that you are in a real world situation than the lovingly textured and conceiled cookie cutter corridors of later linear FPS games like the latest Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.


So I urge you to check out Medal of Honor Airborne , it is there on origin for just £2 and then get back on EAs case to stop aping COD or Battlefield with MOH and take it back in the direction of a sandbox multiple route fps that Airborne is thus far the finest example of.

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Today is Major Sheppard Day time to Kinect to Mass Effect 3 on 360 and demo the PC version

Been shouting commands at kinect all day on the Xbox 360 Demo of Mass Effect 3 , and it is so intuitive and accurate , it changes the game completely not just in a most Clint Eastwood in Firefox vein but more than that  I found myself  channelling my inner Paul Muadib  ..you know when Usul no longer requires a weirding module! 


Yes like the God King of the Fremen I can not only kill with a word , but can command others to at the same time .... or just simply change weapons . heal , or change the tactics of my squad . all with voice and faster than all those button pushes or mouse clicks.


I have not seen any sign of head or hand gesture tracking , simply because I was too busy shouting multi character /party  combos with various mixes of incinerate , concuss , warp and singularity , even lobbing grenades using voice. Combine this with your joypad for shooting and you ARE a lethal killing squad not just an individual. 


Now pay attention Molyneux , this is is what we wanted from kinect , not Milo !


PC  fans need not despair , for ME3 runs faster and smoother on your hardware than the 360 version.


Easily . The ME3 engine is far better optimised for today's hardware , and that hardware includes Intel GPUS!


I have just been playing on a Windows 8 Intel HD3000 and i7 powered Lenovo X220T , and it is so fast ! And it claims this is not optimal hardware!  With Kinect for PC not far off it would be impressive to see the PC version get a Kinect update or at least allow speech commands through a mic or head set  .  Check out thegameveda demo play through part 1:

preorder Mass Effect 3 from Zavvi or Game , the PC demo is on Origin right now , and you can also pre order digitally from there also :

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EA's Origin download service celebrates 1yr of sticking it to Steam with 2 weeks of bundles .free games , discounts and more

Yes people the Origin 1 Year Anniversary Sale is here and this is what it will entail .Nothing so drastic as one of Gabe's 75% off sales , but still plenty to consider.And something to ponder as you have no choice but to use Origin for an increasing number of titles from EA .. But then again a year ago you had no choice but to get them from Steam ..right? Ahh the circle of digital game downloading life..... Hakuna Matata!!!!

6/4-6/17 - New BF3 Premium, plus BF3 Bundles.

Premium Bundle - Battlefield 3 Premium + Ultimate Shortcut Bundle - $69.99

The Complete Battlefield 3 Bundle – Base Game +Premium + Ultimate Shortcut Bundle - $99.99


Battlefield Premium - $49.99


click the banners above to get oscar miking ,  several months into the latest release from D.I.C.E. it should be about patched and working by now .... or there is always the ever green Codename Eagle ..just putting that out there for when you are sat there trying  to launch the game from a browser....


The second week of "celebrations" brings more joy for EA fans ... 


6/11-6/17 - Save up to 40% on special editions on Origin.

The Sims™ 3 Showtime Katy Perry Collector's Edition
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ DigitalDeluxe Edition
Rift™ Ashes of History Collector's Edition
TERA: Collector's Edition
Alan Wake Collector'sEdition
Dragon Age™: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
The Sims™ 3 Deluxe
Battlefield 2142™ DeluxeEdition
The Sims Medieval™ Deluxe Pack
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 Digital DeluxeEdition
Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition
The Sims™ 3 Plus Pets
The Sims™ 3 PlusShowtime


6/18-6/24 - Pre-order a new title and get a released title for 50%
List of participating titles willbe released soon


6/25-6/29 - All buyers get a $20 coupon (to redeem on purchases of $39.99 or more; other restrictions apply)


Origin are also offering several games for Pre-Order on 6/4 which just got announced at E3!
Dead Space 3
Need For Speed - Most Wanted
Medal Of Honor- War Fighter Digital Deluxe Edition

get all the above Origin Deals from Origin Powered by EA Click Here

or if you want to be constantly poked and stoked with updates  there is the Official Facebook account for EA Flash Deals. Like them to know when special deals are unlocked on EA's hottest titles. Click Here

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Battlefield 3 Premium for £30.40

Over @ Green Man Gaming home of Origin deals that even Origin is afraid to offer .. using the DERHE-RRDER-RINGE voucher code that will give you 20% off games till midnight..  so Battlefield Premium is £30.40 ...


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Medal of Honor : Warfighter Limited Edition 25% off for £30

And Origin games too form part of the Green Man Gaming 25% off sale , the stand out being Medal of Honor : Warfighter Limited Edition which comes to £30 using the voucher code from the site..

oh and you get Battlefield 4 Beta guaranteed access by pre ordering .. remember how much fun the Battlefield 3 Beta was? Much more fun than the actual game as things turned out .. 

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Battlefield 1942 is FREE on ORIGIN now ! And the best part is after 10 years it is bug free and the AI works too

If you started playing Battlefield with the latest iteration, then you missed out some of the finest ebb and flow fps and vehicular battles ever committed to binary.

EA and D.I.C.E. feel your pain and so have released Battlefield 1942 free on Origin. 

Another reason to love PC gaming. See you on the Battlefield. Of course what would be really cool would be if D.I.C.E.  released Codename Eagle to the great unwashed masses ...or made a sequel.

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Download and join the Crysis 3 Beta Now ! Cloak disengaged!

There are a lot of negative things to talk about today in the world of tech and gaming but they can wait for whilst you just wasted time reading this , or whilst you are reading this ( yes we PC owners multi task... no really not like the faux app switching in iOS ) you should and could be downloading the Beta for Crysis 3 ... time for some PC gaming time ... just fire up Origin and hit the get started button .. see you out there or not .. cloak engaged....

or maybe not .. as the open Beta requires a DirectX 11 capable GPU...

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