titanfall

Respawn CEO Vince Zampella says:

I guess EA announced a sequel, so I could play coy and pretend I don't know anything about it, or… yeah. So we're working on a sequel. No official name yet, but we're working on that. That's the main focus but we're starting up a second team and doing some smaller stuff too. Small, exploratory, taking it slow! It'll be multiplatform.

No release date has been announced.  Zampella says the team is still "figuring out" what to do with a single player element, because he doesn't want to isolate players who aren't interested in it, or beat them over the head with it.  He also addressed the possibility of free DLC, saying:

I think having the maps [released in paid] packs, splits the community and it makes it harder for matchmaking, it’s messy. I don’t know we won’t do it again, I can’t say that for sure, but the idea would be to do something different.

You might not want to cheat in Titanfall on PC, because if you do, you'll be banned from regular servers and only allowed to play with other cheating scum:

Q.) So what happens if I get banned?
A.) Great news: you get to keep playing Titanfall! Less-great news: you only get to play with other cheaters. You can play with other banned players in something that will resemble the Wimbledon of aimbot contests. Hopefully the aimbot cheat you paid for really is the best, or these all-cheater matches could be frustrating for you. Good luck.

Check the $450 bundle out here.

This "Life is Better With a Titan" trailer for Titanfall sure makes life with a Titan look costly. How are you enjoying "the CoD killer"? Were you affected by last night's Xbox Live outage?

To play Titanfall on PC you have to install a whopping 35GB of uncompressed audio, which isn't something we're used to with games.

Respawn lead engineer Richard Baker told Eurogamer this was to do with the developer engineering the game's data to work with less capable machines. In short, Titanfall reserves a decent proportion of CPU time for audio decode. By having uncompressed audio, the game runs faster for those using slower systems.

For $499 you'll get an Xbox One, Titanfall (digital download), and one month of Gold. Worth it?

If you registered for the Titanfall beta before 4 pm on the 15th, you should see the game waiting for you in your Origin library, regardless of whether or not you've gotten an email. Meanwhile, the beta has opened to everyone on Xbox One, available in the Game Store under "New Game Demos." The PC beta is expected to open to everyone soon as well.

Click the image to sign up. If you need some incentive, watch the Beta trailer below:

Click here for the Stryder trailer, or here for Ogre.

Titanfall will launch solely on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC, and won't ever come to PS4, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said.

Respawn Entertainment announced that Titanfall will be released on March 11th in North America, and March 13th in Europe (suck it, Europe!). In addition to the standard edition, Respawn is offering a $250 collector's edition pictured above.