Bungie and co. have announced the new Halo Reach Noble Map Pack is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The map pack will set you back a total of 800 MS Points. Also included is a new set of achievements worth a total gamerscore of 250 points. The pack comes with 3 new maps (detailed after the break).
EA has finally dated Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam. The downloadable expansion pack will be released on the PC on Saturday 18th December, with the PS3 and 360 releases on 21st December. It will cost £9.99 on the PC and PS3. 360 owners will have to pay more, however. Their fee is 1200 Allards, which is in all fairness 29p more. Moreover, VIP Map Pack 7 will be arriving on Read More ...
Activision has announced three new DLC packs for DJ Hero 2. The one out today is the Hard Edge Mix Pack, which includes Pixies’ “Debaser” mixed with The Prodigy’s “Invaders Must Die”, and Beastie Boys’ “Body Movin’” mixed with Lenny Kravitz’ “Rock And Roll Is Dead”. It will cost 480 Allards on the Xbox Live Marketplace and £4.79 on the PlayStation Network.
EA has sent word that they are releasing some patches for the PC and 360 versions of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. As a result, the game might be a bit laggy until 9am tomorrow morning according to DICE. We believe only the PC version will be a bit laggy, but there is good reason why. EA’s PC patch clocks in at an insane 2.5GB. The update adds the necessary hooks Read More ...
Black Bean Games has announced SBK 2011. It’s due out on the PC, PS3 and 360 in May 2011. Milestone Studios are handling development duties, and they are spouting the usual improvements in graphics and gameplay. They claim it will have a new artistic direction, a better driving model and better presentation. Also expect all the official stuff from the next Championship Season, including classes, riders and tracks from the Read More ...
Capcom has announced that Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Dead Rising 2: Case West will be released next month. The game sees the return of Frank West as he peruses Fortune City in order to investigate Phenotrans. His goal is to find proof of its involvement with the zombie outbreaks. Case West is set immediately after Dead Rising 2, and allows Frank to team up with Chuck Greene in co-op.
Nintendo has confirmed that New Super Mario Bros. Wii is their first quadruple platinum selling game in Japan. It crossed the four million copies sold mark in Japan this week, with Sunday’s figures putting sales at a precise 4,001,276. The game already became the Wii’s best-selling title back in March, when it managed to topple the 3.5 million barrier.
Nintendo has confirmed that US customers picked up a lot of their products during the Black Friday week (November 21-27). Internal estimates say that they managed to sell 900,000 DS units (that figure is across all models of DS) and 600,000 Wiis. Should these numbers prove to be true, the NPDs will be pretty interesting for this month.
CCP has unveiled the patch notes for EVE Online’s winter expansion, Incursion. The patch makes some player-requested changes, as well as the usual array of fixes and netcode improvements. Also expect to see some graphical and UI tweaks amongst the changes to weapons, ammunition and the market. There’s also a new salvaging ship called the Noctis. Incursion will be released tomorrow. CCP has confirmed that they are bowing to peer Read More ...
Chart Track has released this week’s UK gaming sales chart: 1. GRAN TURISMO 5 (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) 2. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (ACTIVISION) 3. ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD (UBISOFT) 4. FIFA 11 (EA SPORTS) 5. JUST DANCE 2 (UBISOFT) 6. NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT (EA GAMES) 7. WII PARTY (NINTENDO) 8. ART ACADEMY (NINTENDO) 9. WII SPORTS RESORT (NINTENDO) 10. FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS (BETHESDA SOFTWORKS)
SEGA has deleted all the scores from the Sonic 4: Episode 1 leaderboards because of some good for nothing cheaters. Naughty (and impossible) times of 0 seconds have been deleted, as well as 99999990 scores. Disappointingly though, all the legitimate results have also been destroyed. Furthermore, it appears that there’s nothing SEGA or anyone can do to prevent the devious hackers from reposting the dodgy scores to the leaderboard.
Sony’s Playstation Blog announced today that BBC America’s programming is now available on your Playstation Network. Because of this partnership BBC America decided to kick off the week with the first available offering of the first episode of Top Gear for free (normally $1.99 for SD, $2.99 for HD). For the first two weeks it appears the line up will consist of “Doctor Who”, and “Being Human” will also join Read More ...
This new episodic Alien Breed series has been interesting. It may not be as exciting as the series was back in the old days, but the third-person semi top-down shooter does have its moments. Whilst we mainly found the past two prequels to be a hit and miss, we believed that the games gradually got better until their final crescendo. That observation proves to be the reverse of Alien Breed Read More ...
Jade Raymond has confirmed that she is working on Splinter Cell 6, alongside the Ubisoft Toronto team that handled Conviction. 83 people have been hired to help work on the game alongside the pre-existing staff.
Criterion has set out a weird challenge for fans of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. If they can rack up one million views for the game’s launch trailer (the one above), Criterion will give players free cars for the game. They are: the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible; Lamborghini Murciélago LP 650-4 Roadster and the Dodge Viper SRT10 Convertible Final Edition. You have until the 12th December to get the video Read More ...
