Reports from America suggest that Facebook could be filing the S-1 for its $ 10 billion IPO as early as today,with an expected valuation somewhere between $ 75 billion and $ 100 billion.
According to the Wall Street Journal Facebook is aiming for the IPO between April and June, and papers will be filed this week.
The filing will reveal some of the financial workings behind the social networking giant.
The MWE Emperor 200 PC work station is curvy, metallic, futuristic and probably awesome. I can see how a commenter on Kotaku’s gallery showing off the station might think that it, like cake and grief counseling, could be a lie.
With three 24-inch LED screens, an ergonomic leather chair and even its own air filtration system, it sounds like the Emperor 200 belongs in an Aperture Science Re-Education and Incentivization Testification Preparation Chamber, where you’re strapped down with your eyelids glued open, brainwashed by images of puppies getting stabbed or something. But it’s not. It’s just a $ 45,000 gaming rig that helps to minimize your physical movement, all but guaranteeing you do nothing but play Skyrim and The Old Republic until you’re too fat to ever move again.
Activision has rolled out a schedule of all the planned Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 downloadable content coming out this year, and there’s quite a bit of it. Among the normal stuff — maps, mostly — are a few interesting gems: specifically, game modes and Spec Ops missions.
You can see the full calendar here, which documents what month content will be hitting (which is marked “Elite Only,” I assume referring to the scheduling, since premium Elite subscribers get stuff earlier than regular players). The schedule shows off the 20 DLC pieces Infinity Ward and Activision has promised, but as to just when all this stuff will be available (specifically to PC gamers) is a tough call. As it appears right now, the hierarchy is as follows: Xbox 360 Elite subscribers; Elite subscribers on every other platform (and possibly regular players on Xbox 360); regular players on every other platform. The standard deal between Activision and Microsoft on DLC exclusivity is one month, so expect about that much delay before you MW3 DLC makes its way out to PC for download.
We’re pretty dubious of any time-travel methods that don’t involve police boxes from the 1960s, but Final Fantasy XIII-2‘s horcrux Historia Crux and time gates look like a fairly stable, albeit significantly less British, way to traverse the annals of history.
[Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, a leading destination for English-language news on Japan's game industry.] In our latest round-up of Japanese game industry news not previously reported on Gamasutra, we look at the 3DS stand that will come bundled with Kid Icarus: Uprising (pictured), two social gaming milestones, and Gundam successes for Namco Bandai. Namco Bandai social games membership tops 10M Along with its many …
Holy s–t. Binary Domain, coming out February 28, hasn’t really been on my radar, but apparently it should have been, because this trailer I’m about to show you is totally and ridiculously awesome. It looks like THE Japanese game to play this year. I’ll just have to get over my annoyance with shooters to play it, though. We’ll see how things are going next month.
EA’s hosting a Battlefield 3 event this weekend, which will give you the chance to play alongside members from Korn, Megadeth, Outkast and hip-hop artist Mickey Factz.
In order to participate, you will need to become a fan of the Platoon of your choice on Battlelog or directly through Metal Platoon pages created by Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and Korn’s Jonathan Davis.
The first event is going on as we type, but there is one going on tomorrow as well.
Representing Team Metal: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine vs. Representing Team Hip Hop: Big Boi (Outkast)
Time: 10AM-12PM PST, January 7, 2012
Weapon of choice: Battlefield 3, Xbox 360
Map and mode: Strike at Karkand, Conquest Assault
MATCHUP NO. 2
Representing Team Metal: Korn’s Jonathan Davis vs. Representing Team Hip Hop: Mickey Factz
Gosh, Star Wars: The Old Republic sure is turning out to be awesome. Or so I’ve heard. I haven’t had the chance to play just yet. But I am increasingly jealous. Reason number 500: Our good friends at Game Trailers got ahold of this hilarious capture of a glitch in TOR that is as hilarious as it is deadly to your character. About 30 seconds in, watch the J-Tim dance moves commence, and may the force be with you here, and in the club.