Not content with the astronomical sales of Black Ops, Activision and Treyarch have announced the first map pack for the game; First Strike. It will be released on 1st February for 1200 Allards and will be 360 exclusive at first before expanding to other systems. The DLC includes four new maps: Discovery (the Antarctic research station from the campaign), Kowloon (set on the rooftops of Hong Kong), Berlin Wall and   Read More ...

Crystal Dynamics has confirmed that they are developing a PS3-exclusive Tomb Raider Trilogy pack. It will be released on 22nd Match 2011 and includes Tomb Raider: Legend, Anniversary and Underworld. All three will have their own individual PlayStation Network trophies as well as unlockables for PlayStation Home. This is the first time Legend and Anniversary will be appearing on the PS3.

Chart Track has released this week’s UK gaming sales chart, including that all-important Christmas number 1: 1. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (ACTIVISION) 2. FIFA 11 (EA SPORTS) 3. NEED FOR SPEED: HOT PURSUIT (EA GAMES) 4. JUST DANCE 2 (UBISOFT) 5. ASSASSIN’S CREED: BROTHERHOOD (UBISOFT) 6. GRAN TURISMO 5 (SONY COMPUTER ENT.) 7. DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS (NINTENDO) 8. MEDAL OF HONOR (EA GAMES) 9. WII FIT PLUS (NINTENDO)   Read More ...

The Vietnam-based expansion to DICE’s immensely successful Bad Company 2 opens with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Fortunate Son’ playing over the menu; a move that sets the tone for the rest of the game. Prepare to relive all your favourite moments from every ‘Nam film – from Platoon to Apocalypse Now – all alongside your multiplayer buddies.

Apple has finally slapped a date on their Mac App Store. It will be released on January 6th and will be available to OSX Snow Leopard users in 90 countries at launch. The app itself will be free. Purchased apps will run on all the user’s personal Macs, with updates getting delivered directly through the app store. Developers keep 70% of sales revenue and aren’t charged for free apps. They   Read More ...

Blizzard has finally admitted that Titan is real and will be their next MMOG. The game was leaked on a five-year released schedule that resulted in the departure of Blizzard China’s general manager Ye Weilun. Titan is currently down for release in Q4 2013, with a fifth expansion for World of Warcraft scheduled for the same release window. “The media is not supposed to know anything about that,” said Frank   Read More ...

Take-Two Interactive has announced they have managed to make profits of $42.5 million for the twelve months ending October 31st 2010. What’s bizarre is that the publisher sustained losses of $140m over the same period last year. There’s a bit of imbalance going on at Take-Two, with the company only going into profit when they release a big game. Red Dead Redemption helped raise net revenue to $1.16 billion, which   Read More ...

The NPD Group has found that 29% of games purchased in the last three months were done so digitally. 47% of the digital buyers the group surveyed said they purchased their games from services like Steam. 42% bought their games through app stores or mobile phone carriers and 30% used console services like Xbox Live. People answering the survey said that they bought on average 3.1 (we’ll take that as   Read More ...

EA has announced that Battlefield Heroes has raised £2500 for videogame charity Child’s Play. The funds were raised thanks to the sales of Christmas-themed virtual outfits for players’ Heroes characters. EA started the month by saying that they will donate $1 for every Santa or Nikolaus outfit sold for the game. So far we’re 17 days in and $4000 has been raised. If the community can get to $8000 mark   Read More ...

CD Projekt has confirmed that The Witcher 2 has an insane difficulty level. We don’t normally do news posts like this, even on slow days but the difference here is that if you die in The Witcher 2 you have to start the game again from the very beginning. “You can save the game, but when you die the saves are disabled,” explained lead gameplay designer Mateusz Kanik said. “Of   Read More ...

Telltale Games has confirmed that Back to the Future will be released on the PC and Mac on Wednesday 22nd December. There will five episodes in the series, with all of them focusing on the famous exploits of Marty and Doc. The remaining episodes will be released in February, March and April. Also expect to see the game hit the PlayStation Network and the iPad.

Konami has confirmed that they will be releasing some new DLC for PES 2011 on Tuesday 21st December 2011. The free DLC will be released on the PC, PS3 and 360. It will include 12 updated kits from some French clubs and the Ireland national team. Also expect 10 new licensed boot styles from adidas, Puma, Umbro and Mizuno.

Those cheeky chaps over at BioWare have announced that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 will be using the Mass Effect 3 engine. Coupled with all the patches and DLC packs included in the package, the PS3 version sounds like it’s going to be pretty swish. It’s a bit surprising for a PS3 version of a multi-platform game to actually perform up to par but this might just do   Read More ...

Square Enix has announced that Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been delayed. The game will now be pushed into its next fiscal year, which begins in April 2011. The Eidos Montreal game was supposed to be out in early 2011. “With weak sales performance of console game titles that have been newly released during the current fiscal year as well as harsh market feedback regarding a key title, the Group   Read More ...

In an embarrassing u-turn for the under-fire developers, Treyarch has admitted that the PS3 Call of Duty: Black Ops patch they released this week did screw up the game. “We are aware that many online players have been experiencing connectivity issues since Tuesday’s patch,” said Black Ops community manager Josh Olin on the official forum. “We have been working hard to track down the cause and fix them as quickly   Read More ...