Valve Corporation announced today that the next update for popular online shooter "Team Fortress 2," including new weapons and achievements for the Scout class, will be available on Steam this Feb. 24. New details will be revealed about each weekday at teamfortress.com. Since TF2's inception, The Scout has carried a mean aluminum fish club; today, Valve [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The early reviews are in, and it's looking like Grand Theft Auto IV's "The Lost and Damned" DLC is a sure bet for any who enjoyed the original game. Boasting a Metacritic average of 90, the first DLC episode is recieving near-universal praise; and with an estimated 10-12 hour campaign and a variety of new [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 16, 2009
Coming Wednesday, February 18th is "Brute Force," the first "deleted scene" expansion for Twisted Pixel Games' XBLA original "The Maw." At a mere 100 Microsoft Points ($1.25 USD), "Brute Force" promises more puzzles, action and a brand new elite strike force of bounty hunters against which Frank and Maw must face off. Hit the cut [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
The UK's Official Xbox Magazine has the first look at the second "Fallout 3" DLC, "The Pitt," and CVG has shared the details. Minor spoilers ahead.
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Given sales data -- and the economic challenge of purchasing $190 plastic instruments in a recession -- some have suggested that music games are a fad already on their way out. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith disagrees. In an investor conference call today, he spoke about a multitude of ways the company intends to extend the "Guitar Hero" franchise.
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Valve Software just earned themselves a massive cookie. Today, after months of warning Xbox 360 gamers that they would likely have to charge for downloadable console content, the company revealed that the "Left 4 Dead Survival Pack DLC" -- arriving this spring with two whole new campaigns and the Survival Mode gametype -- will be free [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
According to the game's own credits, "Afro Samurai" will receive at least one downloadable episode in future; and today, we spoke to the man who penned its story, a Mr. Peter Saji, for some clues about the contents of a confirmed multiple episodes to come.
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Activision has announced its first DLC installment for "Call of Duty: World at War," a map pack including three new multiplayer levels and a "Nazi Zombies" Co-Op mode. Map Pack #1 will be available in March for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PCs. A retail price has not yet been given. Brief details on the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
At this point in time, nine months after the game's release on PC and more than a year after its Xbox 360 debut, it's hard to believe that BioWare's sci-fi RPG "Mass Effect" is still being patched -- and harder still to imagine that many players have stuck around long enough to care. But according [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
Though "Tomb Raider: Underworld" hasn't exactly been receiving the same sort of critical acclaim as Bethesda's "Fallout 3," it does have one thing in common with the latter, free-roaming shooter. Today, downloadable content packages for both games have received unexpected, last-minute delays.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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