In the mood to jump across rooftops? Of course you are. First-person platformer Mirror's Edge is now available for download through Steam.
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This small patch for the PC version of Mirror's Edge fixes some issues with the PhysX capabilities.
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EA's ambitious first-person adventure game, somewhat criticized for its clunky combat, makes its way to the PC today. Mirror's Edge has shipped for the PC to retailers in North America and will ship worldwide on January 16th. Players who purchase the PC version of the game will also receive a free copy of the Mirror's Edge remix album.
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DICE has confirmed today that DLC for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of Mirror's Edge will be released on January 29, 2009.
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Electronic Arts is the focus of attention for both analysts and gamers as 2008 is closing. The publisher, which is already facing stiff competition from Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, has seen worse than expected results in the last month, deciding to lay off more than 1,000 people, about 10% of its workforce, while also closing down or consolidating a lot of studios, including Need for Speed: Undercover developer Black Box. New intellectual properties like Dead Space, a space based horror shooter, and Mirror's Edge, the free running DICE developed title, have failed to make the impact that the company had hoped for.

Some analysts believe that the recent news shows how the publisher missed the start of this console cycle and needs to rethink its strategy in order to create successful titles.
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Gamerdeals.net writes:

"Highlights this week include Lord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360/PS3/DS/PC), Mirror's Edge (PC), and Moon (Nintendo DS).

Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of January 11, 2009 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"
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Couldn't get enough of Mirror's Edge for the 360 and PS3? Little Effie still has our heart-strings all tied up (maybe that explains why she was always on the run) and Electronic Arts knows it. Borne Games has collaborated with EA DICE and released a one-level beta of Mirror's Edge 2D.
It's pretty much what you'd imagine: You control Faith from a 2D side-scrolling perspective, using the arrow keys to perform wall-walks and slides with the S key used for jumping. Despite the short length, the character animation and details are top-notch, and the controls are easy to get a grip on after some practice. That's one definite improvement over the console version.
Mirror's Edge 2D is still in it's infant stages but it's easily comparable to the addictive Portal flash game. We look forward to more details…and of course, more time with Faith. After playing the beta, feel free to leave your feedback at Borne Games' site.
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"The demos of Mirror's Edge and Too Human had strong online showings in 2008, but the full versions failed to captivate Xbox Live users in the same way, according to Microsoft's annual rankings of top-played games.

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb posted the rankings to his blog on Sunday, showing that the Mirror's Edge demo was the 12th most popular game for Xbox Live members. Its full-game counterpart was nowhere to be seen on the top 20 list."
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EA has signed on with Valve's highly popular digital distribution program Steam to distribute their games including recent releases, and with some added good news. Titles such as Spore and Mass Effect that have come under heavy fire for DRM usage, will no longer have any SecuROM protection. All games will use Steam's DRM.
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2008 was a departure for Electronic Arts. The mega publisher best associated with their annual sports games and dependence on licensed products and established franchises instead released a number of original, brand new titles this year... and some of them didn't exactly light up the sales charts, Mirror's Edge in particular. Still, despite the lagging sales, EA CEO John Riccitiello has stated they plan to continue the franchise, and many other new properties, going forward.

"We're very pleased with a lot of our new franchises this year," Riccitiello said during an investors conference call yesterday (via MTV Multiplayer). "We think Spore has established a strong base for being an ongoing franchise. We think the same of MySims. Dead Space looks like a long-term big winner for us. We expect Warhammer will continue to perform very, very well, it's life measured in multiples of years, not multiples of months."
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Retail checks have been coming in that indicate EA's stylish first-person action game Mirror's Edge has fallen short at retail.

But despite the game's commercial performance, EA CEO John Riccitiello assured that the company isn't canning the new series.

"Mirror's Edge is one that was very strongly reviewed, that one's going to go forward," said the exec during a conference call. "We're probably going to look into some issues around the design to make sure strong IP is married with strong business."

Reviews were generally favorable, earning a 78 percent average review score at Metacritic, but the new IP had to go up against a tough slate of more recognizable franchises.

EA has made a point to bring more new IP into its product portfolio, balancing out licensed and older series.

"We're actually very pleased with a lot of our new franchises this year," said Riccitiello. He added that Spore and MySims have established strong foundations for future installments, and expects Warhammer Online to do well as time goes on.

Riccitiello also categorized the new sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space as a "long-term big winner" for the company.

But if EA knew the economic conditions it was due to face this holiday, perhaps the publisher wouldn't have relied so heavily on new IP.
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Minimum specs + an NVIDIA GPU PhysX comparison video.
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Minimal system requirements for Mirror's Edge: 1 GB RAM; P4 @ 3.0 GHz; Shader Model 3.0 video card with 256 MB VRAM. This configuration will not run Physx though.
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As well as announcing the first wave of DLC coming to Mirror's Edge early next year, EA also confirmed that the PC version of the game will ship to retailers in North America on January 13th and worldwide on January 16th, 2009.
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Gamezine:

"DICE's Mirror's Edge is already visually striking, but the game's first set of downloadable content takes this to a whole new level.

Featuring seven time trial maps, the pack will cost only $10 in the US (UK price currently unknown). As an added bonus PlayStation 3 gamers will get an additional map for free. "
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Multiplayer writes "Despite suggestions from elsewhere in Electronic Arts, the game developers at DICE who made "Mirror's Edge" refused to even prototype a third-person version of their daring new game.

They declined to do many of the things people might have expected from the creators of the violent and successful "Battlefield" series."
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Gaming Front: "In collaboration with Electronic Arts, Brad Borne and his team have created Mirror's Edge 2D with flash."
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DICE and EA confirmed earlier today that Mirrors Edge will indeed be receiving download content via PlayStation Store.
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First-person platformer Mirror's Edge hits Xbox 360 and PS3 today. The PC was supposed to hit sometime "later this winter." How much later? After the holiday season.

When Eurogamer contacted EA today (or was it yesterday? stupid time difference), they were told that no release date was set for the PC version of the game yet. To reiterate the point from yesterday's article about the GTA IV DLC's release date, if publishers still aren't sure about a release date this late in 2008, you can be pretty sure it's not going to come out this year.

Sure enough, EA just sent out a press release today revealing that the PC version will be released in January 2009. Could even be early January - right now Amazon lists January 6th as the date.
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DICE, an Electronic Arts studio, has today confirmed that players of Mirror's Edge can look forward to downloadable content at the beginning of 2009.

The studio is already developing post-release content and plans to announce further information shortly.

It's also been announced today that PC gamers missing out on this week's home console launch will now how to wait until January 2009.
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