And if John Riccitiello has say in the matter Mercenaries 10 will be coming to the next-next-next gen platform of your choosing. Responding on today's earnings conference call to a question if some EA's recent releases would be "sequelable," Riccitiello unsurprisingly said "Yes." Mercenaries 2: World in Flames has sold 1.9 million copies for the company, making the third entry — and probably even the tenth — a bottom ...

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What's more fun than sitting on your couch and just blowing stuff up? There's always this disturbing sense of satisfaction when you level an entire structure with an RPG (in game). In these new Mercenaries 2: World in Flames videos you can see that is precisely what your going to be doing a lot of. More videos after the jump.

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What's more fun than sitting on your couch and just blowing stuff up? There's always this disturbing sense of satisfaction when you level an entire structure with an RPG (in game). In these new Mercenaries 2: World in Flames videos you can see that is precisely what your going to be doing a lot of. More videos after the jump.

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It's not like Mercenaries 2 wasn't looking good enough on its own. But hey, co-op never hurts, it only helps, especially when it's instituted in the way Pandemic have it running for Mercenaries 2. After you start, there's no game-interrupting menu screens, no lobbies, nothing. It's drop-in, drop-out combat, and while the guest's progress through the campaign won't be saved when they quit ...

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Outsourcing specialists Ultizen have secured $6 million is series B financing in a funding round led Taiwanese venture capital firm PAC-Link, along with Japan Asia Investment Co. and on-line advertising agency CyberAgent. The money will go towards expanding Ultizen's pool of resources through acquisitions.

So who the hell is Ultizen, you ask? Ultizen is one of those mysterious outsourcing companies, based out of China, that basically have their hands ...

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Those who enjoyed the economics-meets-explosions gameplay of Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction will no doubt get a kick out of the latest trailer for the title's upcoming sequel. The three ExOps personalities we came to know and love in the first Mercs are making a comeback, and in the above video, Mercenaries 2: World in ... ...View Full Article »