The limited Crysis 2 beta is now running on Xbox 360 and one player was kind enough to record a few minutes of gameplay to show off the multiplayer aspect of Crysis 2. And it kinda looks like Crysis + Call of Duty. Although with the CryEngine 3, it looks a lot better.

Ahh, the good old days when FPS games took place in huge locations with dozens of rooms, where you were running around for hours, chasing keycards and what not. Today games are a lot more linear, like the Call of Duty campaigns, where you basically move down one, single path. Of course, we also have open world games like Crysis, where you decide where you wanna go. But we still miss the good ol’ days. Via Reddit.

Nintendo has its Nintendo World on Times Square in New York, and now Sony is opening a similar center close, called PlayStation Lounge. It will be set in the ground floor of Sony’s office, and will offer games, movies and everything PlayStation. Gamers will also be able to purchase games and consoles as well.

BadCompany2Blog reports that the upcoming Map Pack 7 for Bad Company 2 will include the popular Bad Company 1 maps Harvest Day and Oasis, remade with destruction 2.0 other other tech from BC2. The map pack will be released later this month and will be free for those with VIP access, which otherwise costs $15. Via BadCompany2Blog.com

Despite a rocky launch filled with bugs and glitches (read our Fallout New Vegas review here), Fallout New Vegas has managed to ship an impressive 5 million units. While that doesn’t mean it sold 5 million units, it does mean that the demand is certainly there, and expect the game to top 5 million sales this year. Easily. Bethesda has announced that coupled with digital sales, the game has already generated 300 million in revenue.

Sure, you might be able to beat Fallout New Vegas, despite its bugs and glitches. You might even be good at it, raking up kill after kill. But can you complete it as a pacifist, without killing a single person or animal? Well, someone did. Via NeoGAF.

Activision is giving us two 007 games this holiday season, GoldenEye 007 for Wii (read our GoldenEye 007 review) and Blood Stone 007 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Blood Stone 007 is a third person shooter with a few interesting highlights, but most of which is far too generic and repetitive.

In Blood Stone 007, current Bond Daniel Craig lends his persona and voice to the game, where he plays 007 on a mission hunting terrorists across the world, leading you to several locations and different mission types. The gameplay is a standard third person shooter taken right out of 2005, and its visuals as well, and we’ve seen smarter enemies on the PS2 ten years ago. Usually they’re just waiting for you to take them out, and even when alerted, offer little to no challenge. The main chuck of the game, you’ll be infiltrating one place after the next, killing enemies, hunting them and so on, in exotic places and far end destinations like Siberia. There are a few noticeable missions, like the driving ones, which stand out and are quite well done. That’s no surprise, since developer Bizzare Creations previously worked on the Project Gotham Racing series. But those missions are far and in between to really make an impact.

Visually, the game looks bland and quite boring, besides the driving missions which manage to take things up a notch. The enemy AI is so vague that you can easily complete the short 5 hour campaign without dying. What’s worse, this being a Bond games, you really don’t have any gadgets besides the usual arsenal of pistols and rifles. You have a souped up cell phone. And that’s it. Multiplayer is just as bland with no innovation at all. A few basic modes (deathmatch, team deathmatch etc.) and to make matters worse, the best part from the single player campaign — the car chases and vehicle missions — are not available in multiplayer. Shame. In fact, when we said in our GoldenEye 007 review that it was one of the best Bond games ever, we can say the opposite about Blood Stone: it’s one of the worst, shallowest and most boring Bond games ever.

The Good:
Good vehicle missions
Good voice acting

The Bad:
Bland visuals
Repetitive combat
Bad AI

Overall score: 3/10

EA and DICE have announced Battlefield Play4Free, which is a realistic looking Battlefield Heroes: a play for free Battlefield game build on the FrostBite engine. The game will be released in January and will feature remakes of popular BF2 maps like Strike at Karkand. Did we mention it’ll be free to play? Of course, there’s gonna be in-game purchases and what not. A beta is scheduled for November 31. Via BadCompany2Blog.com.

EA Sports has two major cash cows over the past decade and a half: FIFA and Madden, and now EA has announced that lifetime sales of FIFA have reached 100 million units. FIFA games have been around for 18 years with annual iterations, plus tournament FIFAs like World and Euro Cups, not to mention FIFA Manager. To celebrate the event, EA has released a free DLC for FIFA 11 called Ultimate Team, which is now available for download.

Activision Blizzard has posted its third quarter earnings, and as expected, they were led by two franchises: Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, which accounted for the majority of the revenue. The company had revenues of $745 million in Q3, which is $45 million more than last year, while profits were at $51 million, a big improvement over last year’s $15 million.