With a goal by Sarcastic Gamer, as the entire gaming community rushed EA’s already-sparce defence, won the game to get EA to stop charging for the weapons in Battlefield: Bad Company.

However, there are going to be some hoops to jump through to get the extra weapons, and these are somewhat toned down from paying for a more powerful weapon via the PSN or the Live Marketplace. There’s no specific weapon per task in the reports (bar one):

• Demo Unlock - Play the demo on the 360 or PS3 to get a weapon unlocked.
• Veteran Unlock - Register with the battlefield Veterans program and get another weapon unlocked.
• Website Unlock - Check your stats on the Battlefield: Bad Company website for another weapon.
• Pre-order Unlock - A new sniper rifle is available when you pre-order the game.
• Newsletter Unlock - Sign up for the Battlefield: Bad Company newsletter for the final weapon unlock.

Obviously, gamers hope that the sniper rifle will just be an aesthetic change, rather than simply being more powerful. Otherwise, this is another ploy by EA to try and essentially switch back to charging for guns, even though it is by a more subtle mechanism.

Also, the Gold Edition weapons will be available once the level cap is reached at level 25.

From Destructoid. Source cherry popped.

Tags: battlefield:bad company, electronic arts, ea, sarcastic gamer, destructoid, i still call bullshit

In reference to my previous post on the Wii iPlayer partnership, the sony fanboys (Seriously, I don’t really want to use the term, but anyone who does something like this is obviously a die-hard fanboy, or a geek with too much time on his hands. Or both, more likely.) have cobbled together a PS3-friendly iPlayer web page. It was “done as proof of how easily the BBC could do it officially for PS3″.

You can access it through the URL http://www.ps3iplayer.com.

However, the ground that they have ventured into is very dangerous. I expect this site to be shut down within a week, and for several reasons:

• The iPlayer is a proprietary program. As such, the PS3 version is violating copyright law.
• Nintendo no doubt put exclusivity into their deal, and as such the BBC is inadvertantly breaking that contract if they let this sit.
• The agent string masking that is used, can theoretically allow anyone to view iPlayer, not just those with a valid UK TV License. Anyone who views the iPlayer without a TV License is committing a crime as it stands.

So, being an advocate of open source, I say this: Contact the owner of the PS3 iPlayer code, if you can, and offer to host a mirror. Someone should keep a list of them, and have the PS3iPlayer domain redirect to a random one on the list each time.

From CVG.

Tags: ps3, wii, bbc, iplayer, nintendo, sony, 1337hax

(/evillaugh)

OK, so the irony is that the exact sentiment and title wording was used on MOARPYLONS on it’s first entry, but this is different.

Welcome to 4STRENGTH4STAM LEATHER BELT?! v2 - Blue-Rai. OHYESIWENTTHERE.

After that little stint of customising, I will not be posting an article today as I had hoped. Instead, bask in the magnificence, and don’t look down. No, really. It’s nothing but lies and maintenance.

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Told you.

Maintenance going on now.

Yeah. I found a plugin to go around the maintenance. So all is win. : D