What's Up In Gaming? 7/23/12

With Borderlands 2 almost two months away, Gearbox has announced that it will contain at least 58 hours of gameplay. Not only that, but that the game is complete. That’s right. Borderlands 2 is finished! In the interim between licensing and release, the developers will now spend their time working on the first DLC pack, which will consist of a new character class. The ‘mechromancer’ will be available for free to those who pre-order the game, and it is said that the DLC will release about a month after the game. So, keep a look out for the mechromancer in October.

If it’s one company that raking in the bucks (besides EA), it’s Ubisoft. With any of the wonderful Tom Clancy titles to the Assassin’s Creed series, they have really owned the Kinect with their Dance Central games. Recently, they gave Dance Central 3 a release date of October 16. There are 21 confirmed songs on the playlist, and the list is as follows:

• 2NE1 – “I Am The Best (Original Version)”
• 50 Cent – “In Da Club”
• Alice Deejay – “Better Off Alone”
• Backstreet Boys – “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”
• Cali Swag District – “Teach Me How to Dougie”
• Cobra Starship ft. Sabi – “You Make Me Feel…”
• E.U. – “Da’ Butt”
• Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina – “Stereo Love”
• Gloria Gaynor – “I Will Survive”
• J.J. Fad – “Supersonic”
• Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft. Ying Yang Twins – “Get Low”
• LMFAO – “Sexy And I Know It”
• Los Del Rio – “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
• Marcia Griffiths – “Electric Boogie”
• Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
• Usher ft. Will.I.Am – “OMG”
• Usher – “Scream”
• Van McCoy – “The Hustle”
• Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
• Vicki Sue Robinson – “Turn The Beat Around”
• Village People – “Y.M.C.A.”

When news of the Battlefield 4 beta hit the web, EA made it seem like gamers and internet-heads were crazy. It was posted on Origin- what else were they supposed to think? Of course, now it has been confirmed that when customer preorder Medal of Honor: Warfighter, they get early access to the Battlefield 4 beta. Isn’t it a bit too soon for that? Battlefield 3 came out less than a year ago, and DICE hasn’t done anything but release DLC for it. Why not continue to expand on BF3 until you can’t anymore, and then go to Battlefield 4? No matter, though. As it is an awesome game, gamers will no doubted get to see what advances DICE will attempt to make in the follow-up!