GoGamer's 48 Hour Madness is again underway, this time around offering a host of titles including Mirror's Edge, Prince of Persia, Mercenaries 2 and Shaun White Snowboarding for under $6 while supplies last.
As you may already know and bitch about, some EA PC games only allow the owner to install the game on five machines. Back in December, EA released a de-authorization tool for Spore which allowed users to switch these five authorizations around between machines. Now they've unveiled a new tool that allows you to do this for over a dozen different games with SecuROM.
X-Play writes, "We began hearing rumors of two new characters in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames earlier this week and tonight, X-Play has the exclusive details straight from Pandemic.
From G4: "Turns out that the rumors were true! Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are indeed coming to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames as playable characters in an upcoming update.
ShackNews writes:
Pandemic and Electronic Arts' open world action game Mercenaries 2 has only been out for a few weeks but EA is already planning to release a major patch to the console versions The patch is so big it has a name; Total Payback. The patch will enable cheats, add more playable characters to the game and more. The PC version of Mercenaries 2 already has a patch but it contains none of the extras that the Total Payback patch will have.
Eurogamer writes: "EA plans to reinforce Mercenaries 2 with free downloadable content this month (pinch, punch, etc.) and a bigger update in November.
At 1.4 GB is downloading the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames demo worth your time?
Ripten writes:
The 1.1 North American patch for Mercenaries 2 is now available and includes a number of bug fixes.
Chart-Track's just confirmed that Mercenaries 2's gone top of the UK chart, knocking down Tiger after a top-spot debut last week.
After yesterday's fiasco with the infamous RELOADED group cracking Spore before it even came out in the US, it turns out they've already cracked Mercenaries 2. Currently, over 3500 people are currently leaching and seeding the game, compared to the 10,000 that were downloading Spore yesterday. Today, Spore has over 30,000 people downloading and sharing the game, up 20,000 people from yesterday.
'Mercenaries' from Electronic Arts are hijacking a London petrol station this morning and giving away £20,000 of FREE petrol to customers.
Drivers gained some respite from the recent hikes in fuel prices after a garage decided to give away free petrol. As part of a promotion for a new computer game, £20,000-worth of fuel was being given away free of charge on Friday.
Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries 2: World in Flames will provide the arena, as the developers battle it out with Xbox LIVE® members. Pandemic will be on hand from September 5 through September 12, giving you a chance to be one of the first to get the 50-point "Everybody Wants Some!!" achievement!
Gamerdeals.net writes:
Sean Hollister from GameCyte writes: Over three years in the making, and with just a single month before its commercial debut on August 31st, we thought we'd heard everything there was to hear about Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. The game's huge. It has online co-op. You can blow $#!^ up. But while exploring Pandemic Studios' next-gen playground of destruction at E3 2008, we noticed something new: lots and lots of billboards, with the word "Massive" embedded in placeholder text near the bottom of each.
The work of Brain Zoo Studios, a leading digital media animation studio, will be showcased across the show floor at this year's E3. Fans anticipating the mysterious Alpha Protocol from Sega for the PC and next-gen consoles will be treated to a cinematic showcase produced by Brain Zoo Studios for the title. Additionally, the highly anticipated Pandemic titles Mercs 2: World in Flames and the all-new Destroy All Humans: Path of Furon cinematics are on display in respective publisher booths, all animated by Brain Zoo Studios. Read the full press release on GameVortex.com
MWgamer has 4 new screen shots of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.