One of the selling points of all of the new systems, particularly in reference to their various online services, is the ability to download extra content. This extra content varies from new levels, modes, characters, costumes, and anything else you can imagine. One of the first offerings out of the gate of Microsoft’s Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour both had new songs available for download this week. Guitar Hero: World Tour added a Wings Track pack for $5.50 (440 Microsoft Points) that contains “Junior’s Farm”, ” Hi Hi Hi”, and “Jet”. You can also get the songs indivigually for $2 (160 Microsoft Points) each. Rock [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 19, 2009
Bethesda released a few screenshots today for the second downloadable expansion to Fallout 3. Titled ‘The Pitt’ it is scheduled to release in March for $10 (800 Microsoft Points). No specific release date is set yet, but The Pitt will add sections of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Fallout 3. Here are a couple teaser screenshots to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Last week Valve released news that some Left 4 Dead DLC is coming soon. Today they announced that the upcoming Survival Pack DLC will be free for the Xbox 360 and PC. Activision Blizzard also made some announcements today. Firs off they announced that Prototype will be this June. They followed this up with news that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Microsoft announced today that from February 17th – 22nd all Xbox Live Silver memebers will have Gold level access for playing Grand Theft Auto IV or The Lost and Damned multiplayer. Microsoft has opened up Xbox Live to Silver members before for a weekend, but never for just one specific game like this. We are excited [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
It has been known for a while that Left 4 Dead DLC was going to be coming at some point. Today Valve release some info on what we can expect. In addition to a couple new maps they are adding a new game mode called “Survival”. They have not released what Survivale mode will be [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I got a press release from Activision today laying out their song release plans for February. Here is the quick breakdown or you can read the full release below. While it would be nice to see releases weekly for Guitar Hero: World Tour, but even without weekly releases I’m glad to see a month’s worth [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 24, 2009
From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour added some new songs this week to their respective libraries. Harmonix actually released two different sets of Rock Band 2 songs this week. One group for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and another for the Wii. On Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 you can now get: Steve [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
In addition to this screenshot there has been some news on the Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned content. Rockstar Games announced today that The Lost and Damned will include five new achievements totalling 250 Gamerscore points. It is slated for release on Xbox Live on February 17th. The price has not been announced [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
After getting delayed and then having the released date posted incorrectly on Xbox.com the Fable II Knothole Island content and a bug patch finally released today. The new content is available now on Xbox Live for $10. If you’re not interested in paying for the new content but you want to play cooperatively with a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The DLC Music store in Rock Band 2 for the Wii is finally open for business. It opened today with 50 songs of which 20 are frees. All tracks , other than the free ones, are 200 points. Harmonix has stated they will be releasing other songs from the back catalog available on other patforms [...]
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