San Francisco, CA — April 12, 2006 — Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers and Gearbox Software, one of the world's best video game developers announced that Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway is in development for next generation video game platforms, including the PLAYSTATION3 system and the PC. Scheduled for a holiday 2006 release, Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway is the third game in the multimillion-unit selling and critically acclaimed Brothers In Arms franchise.

Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a completely redesigned online component. Delivering on the franchise's compelling story, unrivaled authenticity and intense squad-based action, Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway drops you into Operation Market-Garden, the largest airborne operation of World War II. Lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division as they fight to open "Hell's Highway" in a daring bid for a quick end to the war.

Brothers in Arms 3 is coming to a next generation console and UBISOFT is ready for the world to know. More details will pour out in the coming days about this sequel to Earned in Blood.

COVERAGE:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144000
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/652/652516p1.html
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php?id=126009
http://ps2.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=9300
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=10700
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/652/652497p1.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26332

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 is in stores everywhere video games are sold. You should have no problem finding the game in your hometown.

Unfortunately, I am going out of town for the next several days during which there will be some heavy maintenance on the servers that host the gearboxed.com websites. Look forward to the site returning when I return sometime early next week. In the mean time, enjoy Brothers in Arms and take plenty of screenshots.

IGN is reporting that BiA for Playstation 2 and PC has gone gold and will be due out on March 17th!

Major news from Gamespot. They have a ton of new Brothers in Arms coverage. Read the previews to learn what multiplayer is like including tips about 10 multiplayer maps with downloadable XBOX Live content and more. Stop readying this and get on over to Gamespot:

Xbox multiplayer interview (link)
PS2 multiplayer interview (link)
new Video interview with Randy Pitchford (link)
Developer Diary video with Randy Pitchford and COL Antal (link)
6 new screenshots (link)

The following is only a tiny part of the previews:

[quote=Gamespot]Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 may very well represent the next big thing in the action game genre. The controls are practically identical to those in Halo and Halo 2, which means you can pick up and play Brothers in Arms with relatively little effort. However, it will take time to figure out the tactical nature of the game. One thing that you don't really notice until you're in the game is that there are no aiming reticles or target cursors. This is a nice touch, because it no longer allows the hyperfast, run-and-gun-style shooting that's prevalent in most shooters. Shooting in this game feels incredibly realistic, because it's difficult to hit anything farther than 10 feet away by shooting from the hip. When you're killed, you have a couple of options at your disposal. Assuming there are still surviving members in your fireteam, you can take control of one of them to continue fighting. But if your team is wiped out, you can use a reinforcement point to respawn at the original base. You only have a limited number of reinforcements per game, so you have to ration them out carefully. If you're playing a two-versus-two game in Brothers in Arms, and one player leaves, the departing player's reinforcements will be inherited by his teammate.[/quote]

[quote=Randy Pitchford]We have finished the game.[/quote]

Some Intresting news was posted in the GBX forums today. Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software, posted the following Information concerning a demo.

[quote=Randy Pitchford]"The demo will likely be two chapters with some information about other features and content that are avialable in the full game to go with it.

The first chapter will be a cut down version of the chapter we call "Rendevouz with Destiny" - it includes Baker's jump into Normandy, some link ups with notable characters and an introduction to control and combat. The demo version of this chapter is about half the size as the chapter in the full game.

After tonight's IRC chat, PC Gamer announced a sweepstakes for Brothers in Arms fans. PC Gamer is "flying 3 winners to Texas to meet the development team of Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, exclusively playtest the game, and then jump out of an airplane (with parachutes, of course)! All you have to do is send us a photo of you 'Storming Normandy,' or as close as you can recreate the experience. Costumes, props, and special effects are definitely encouraged, and the editors at PC Gamer will pick out the 3 most creative entries to be our winners!" Go get busy and win an awesome trip! Contest details.

Question:

Why is it that the X-Box and the PC are always given extra privileges while the PS2 is looked down upon?

It's not even friggin fair! I'm so f-ing sick of all these X-Box people getting EVERYTHING that we don't get.

We bought this system and have stayed with it until the end, even before XBox was released and we still havent even BEGUN to recieve special treatment from UbiSoft or Gearbox.

I'm sick of it.