First Look: Battlefield 3 Multiplayer

KitGuru was lucky enough to be in the first squad to test Battlefield 3 multiplayer on the UK soil. Outside Alpha-test, that is. The venue - main hall of Insomnia 43. The equipment - top PC hardware, Razer accessories. What it caused was a sensory overload and screams of joy. I am being serious. If you are waiting for Battlefield 3, you have every reason to do so. It starts with selecting yo... more.

Goodbye appropriately-named-Insomnia 43, we will miss you. Now the event has closed and nothing is left but the team to start packing up the gear and heading home, here’s a round-up of who won what, in case you weren’t paying attention. Dignitas won the Halo Reach Tournament, which was sponsored by Multiplay, scooping up a £1,500 prize pot. Infused came in second and took £625. Maps MLG C... more.

The Anthony Nolan charity came out in force in a recruitment drive to hunt down gamers at the Insomnia i43 event. They had over a hundred sign ups, but they’re still looking for a few good men to go onto the stem cell register to potentially save the lives of people with blood cancers. Rebecca Sedgewick, one of the charity’s recruitment managers, said it made sense to be at the event.... more.

In an exciting match that rubber-banded from one team to the other, TCM eventually beat back the competition to scoop first place in the Insomnia Call of Duty 4 finals. They played against Team Infused and managed to claw back a win from a poor start. The match lasted an hour and a half and the TCM line-up was Mumma, froz, azeo, SkiNNN and Blackmane. We pounced on team captain Adam ‘Mumma’ ... more.

The UK’s top pro-gaming team Dignitas has revealed it has big plans for the group’s ninth anniversary on September 9. They’ll be hosting a Hall of Fame on their web site and will also have a nostalgic evening of playing Battlefield 1942 – the first game the team ever played. Dignitas also recently launched an online store selling themed merchandise and has had a staggering response, sel... more.

Space, pirates and zombies are all awesome by themselves, so why not bring them together? This is the idea that the two developers at indie dev MinMax Games had, and the end result isn't half bad. Space Pirates and Zombies puts the gamer in control of a rogue pirate group searching for riches in a highly populated galaxy. Opposing factions don't get along too well, so you'll need to use strategic... more.

Do you remember Sam "Serious" Stone? The one-man army, the scourge of the alien invaders and a fan of really big guns? Last seen about a decade ago on all major platforms? He's back from retirement -- and he's all man, no cover. Retirement is not the exactly right word. Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel, taking place before the first game of the series, and it promises to be the Best Fraking Gam... more.

A short film inspired by the first-person puzzle game Portal called Portal: No Escape, directed by Dan Rachtenberg has been released on YouTube. The seven minute short stars Danielle Rayne as Chell, waking up in a large, bare cell. An unknown amount of time goes by as she searches desperately for an escape, does countless press ups and eats unappetising looking food that is shoved under the doo... more.

Gamers were in uproar when they downloaded Ubisoft’s god game From Dust only to discover that the game’s DRM (digital rights management) software meant they had to be online to authenticate the game... not just once but every single time they wanted to play. Yesterday, Ubisoft responded to the backlash by saying that it would be removing the DRM from the game entirely and that a patch would... more.

Razer, an American PC peripherals manufacturer, issued this interesting statement yesterday. It was printed in the Wall Street Journal, addressed to the Xbox, PlayStation and Wii, and proclaimed PC gaming is not dead. It also hinted heavily at something being unveiled on August 26 at this year's PAX Prime. The statement ends with a web address. Follow the link, and you end up in front of a dated ... more.