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According to a recent interview at Gamasutra, the next game in the Command and Conquer RTS series will be made under the Visceral Games label of its publisher Electronic Arts. The article states that Visceral's general manager Nick Earl will be supervising the "action and strategy" game genres at EA under a new development structure in the EA Games section of the company. Other unnamed general managers will cover the MMO and the driving-first person shooter genre games for EA.

While Visceral Games is based in Redwood Shores, California the article states that this new structure will let the studio share resources with other EA game developer studios in Montreal, Shanghai, Melbourne, and Los Angeles where the Command and Conquer franchise has been based for the last several years. EA released Command and Conquer 4 earlier this year to poor critical and sales response and much of that game' development team either was laid off or departed the studio. Before C&C 4's release, EA announced in November 2009 that it had hired Might and Magic creator Jon Van Caneghem to lead a team to revamp the Command and Conquer franchise. In the new Gamasutra chat, Earl said only that the new C&C game is "pretty far out" although it's not clear if that means the game is still a long way from being released or, well, "far out, man."

Fans of the upcoming Medal of Honor reboot coming this fall can pre-order the Limited Edition box, which includes day one access to shotguns and the exclusive MP7 combat rifle. Other players will have to work to unlock these special weapons, but considering how the Limited Edition costs the same as the regular, there's no reason not to pick it up instead. Players will be able to put these weapons through their paces when Medal of Honor releases on October 12th.

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Electronic Arts' upcoming modern day revamp of the Medal of Honor military shooter series is still due to be released on October 12. However folks who put their money down early for the game will be able to gain access to a "Limited Edition" of the game at no extra charge.

This edition will give players access to an exclusive in-game weapon. the MP7 submachine gun. In addition two other weapons, the TOZ-194 and 870MC2 shotguns, will be able to be used by Limited Edition owners the day the full game is released while players with the regular edition will have to rank up in the game to unlock the shotguns. Limited Edition owners will also get access to the multiplayer beta but it's currently scheduled to end on July 18.

To ensure a sense of authenticity in the Medal of Honor campaign, the developers at EALA consulted a number of Tier 1 special ops soldiers. The thinks of itself as a wolfpack, and they offer personal accounts of their jobs. The video above provides background on the special ops soldiers' mentality while the video after the jump goes more in-depth on the missions they go on. Medal of Honor is expected to release this fall on October 12th. The multiplayer beta is live now and the client can be downloaded here.

Download HD Medal of Honor 'Tier 1 Interview, Ep 1 - Wolfpack' Video (62 MB)
Download HD Medal of Honor 'Tier 1 Interview, Ep 2 - The Missions' Video (52 MB)
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The Medal of Honor multiplayer officially started today. Developed by DICE (of Battlefield fame) separately from the single player portion, the Medal of Honor multiplayer should have a very familiar feel to it. Continue reading after the jump for system requirements. Pre-order customers should be eligible for the beta and can register at the official site.

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If you have been keeping up with our coverage of E3 2010 you know that Electronic Arts has announced plans to hold a multiplayer beta test for their upcoming first person shooter Medal of Honor. The beta gets underway on June 21 although if you have a copy of Battlefield Bad Company 2 you get to play in the beta starting tomorrow.

As luck would have it Big Download has three Medal of Honor multiplayer beta codes to give away thanks to EA. If you want your chance at one simply post a comment on this web page (one post per person please). You have until 11:59 pm Eastern time Thursday to post a comment. After that we will select three random posters and will send them the beta key. Good luck.

We are At Electronic Arts' E3 2010 press conference and today it was announced that the multiplayer beta for their upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor will begin for the PC and other platforms on June 21. EA showed off one of the modes in the game with 24 people on stage playing against each other.

Also announced at the show is EA Gun Club which is a new social network for EA's action game fans. Members will get early access to betas, demos, weapons and more. The first such perk is for people who pre-ordered Battlefield Bat Company 2. If they join EA Club they get early access to the Medal of Honor beta this Thursday.

While early versions of this week's new trailer promoting the new Medal of Honor game did not have this particular feature, the new version of the trailer on the game's official web site is promoting the fact that some kind of beta test for the modern day military shooter is "coming soon."

While that's all that been officially announced we can say that its likely a beta concentrating on the multiplayer portion of the game which is being developed by Electronic Arts' Digital Illusions team. As we reported on Wednesday, the reboot of Medal of Honor will ship to stores on October 12.

It's a developer that's apparently been in operations for a year but until now most of the general public hasn't known about it. It's Killspace Entertainment, a developer based in both Los Angeles and Calabasas, California. The company's official web site shows a weird video but nothing else. However a PDF file from the developer's agency Digital Development Management reveals the company has brought in talent that have worked at Obsidian, EALA, Pandemic, Red 5 Studios and others.

The PDF file states the developer is is working on two projects. One is an original title with a "major publisher" while the other is a licensed game. What could that second game be? The web site superannuation has found that someone at Killspace has registered the www.apocalysenowgame.com web site address. Hmmmmm......

[Via Joystiq]

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide information to help you fully appreciate what these upcoming games have to offer.

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