The Battlefield series has always been a huge money maker for EA, but many fans were clamoring for a more gritty experience. People wanted blood and battlefields that blew up during combat. In 2008, what they got was Battlefield: Bad Company.
The original Bad Company followed four military insubordinates that are sent out before Special Forces to basically become military cannon fodder. Instead of the tidy Battlefield missions, Bad Company was a manic shooter with fully destructible objects, plenty of blood, and a good deal of over the top humor. The second Bad Company game took the same formula but made it a much more streamlined, cinematic experience. It was still the gritty game that everyone came to love (or hate, depending on how much frantic action people could endure), but with a bit more polish. The real star of the show was the multiplayer experience, something that has rarely been successful on the iOS.
As part of EA’s huge fall lineup, EA DICE is releasing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 to the iOS, complete with a 14 level single player campaign and what I’m hoping is a console worthy multiplayer experience. There aren’t many details yet, but the game promises to have 5 detailed landscapes and “adrenaline-pumping” room to room and vehicle combat, as well as some graphics that look almost console worthy.
As with most console based FPS, the real meat of the game will come with the multiplayer, so hopefully EA nails down the online experience. Be sure to check back after the game launches in November for a full review.
Be sure to check out the additional screenshots after the break.
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Zynga has acquired social gaming company based in Dallas, Texas called Bonfire Studios. Bonfire Studios will be now called Zynga Dallas. Bonfire Studios’ three founders David Rippy, Bill Jackson, and Scott Winsett started Bonfire in November 2008 when Microsoft shut down Ensemble Studios. Ensemble created the Age of Empire game series.
Bonfire Studios has not crated a Facebook game as of yet. Rippy will be the general manager of Zynga Dallas. Jackson will be the creative director and Winsett will be the senior art director. Rippy was the lead producer of Age of Empires 3 and Age of Mythology.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has signed an agreement to buy Dapper, a technology platform for displaying dynamic ad creation and optimization. Yahoo!’s goal with the addition of Dapper is to enable advertising companies and agencies to quickly build dynamic ad creatives. Yahoo! is already a partner of Dapper. Dapper was founded by Eran Shir and Jon Aizen in 2006. [Yahoo! Corp Blog]
Dustin Moskovitz, the co-founder of Facebook has donated $50,000 to the Yes On 19 effort. Proposition 19 is an effort to legalize marijuana in California. The ironic part about this is that Facebook rejected advertising from Proposition 19 activists.
This is Moskovitz’s second biggest donation. The first donation he gave was $20,000. “More than any other initiative out there, Prop 19 will stabilize our national security and bolster our state economy. It will alleviate unnecessary overcrowding of non-violent offenders in our state jails, which in turn will help California residents,” stated Moskovitz in an e-mail to the L.A. Times.
Moskovitz is considered the world’s youngest billionaire. Moskovitz was the roommate of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University. Moskovitz moved with Zuckerberg to Palo Alto to work full-time on Facebook after receiving seed funding.
Moskovitz, 28, has about a 6% stake in Facebook which is worth about $1.4 billion. Moskovitz left Facebook in 2008 to start a company called Asana.
The Battlefield series has always been a huge money maker for EA, but many fans were clamoring for a more gritty experience. People wanted blood and battlefields that blew up during combat. In 2008, what they got was Battlefield: Bad Company. 
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