DLC is still all the rage among developers and Halo Wars has gotten its first add-on, titled “Strategic Options”.

The pack will cost you 800 MS Points and contains three new game modes: “Keepaway”, or “Capture The Flag, as it’s commonly known, “Tug of War” pits two armies against each other to see who can field and maintain the strongest, and “Reinforcements”, where shifting tactics is key as various waves of troops are shipped to you.

Good news for all of you StarCraft fans out there: Blizzard is now accepting beta sign-ups for StarCraft II.

“The StarCraft II beta-test period is coming in the months ahead! If you’d like a chance to participate, now’s the time to let us know,” said a blurb at the World of Warcraft website.

All you have to do is log onto your Battle.net profile, submit your system specs and sign up. But, there’s a certain catch. This beta is only for those living in North America.

It seems Bioware’s influence reaches far and wide.

Michael de Plater, creative director of Ubisoft Shanghai, recently spoke with videogaming247, explaining his team’s take on the RTS genre, follows the path Bioware forged with Knights of the Old Republic.
Their upcoming game EndWar will lead on console, before heading to PCs.

“It’s not that we don’t want to do a PC version, and it’s not that it wouldn’t be a good PC game,” he said, when asked why EndWar would appear on consoles first.

“I think that really we’re kind of following in the footsteps of BioWare in regards to what hey did on RPGs with Knights of the Old Republic, where they had their PC background and experience with Neverwinter Nights and other RPGs, then when they did Knights they shifted the camera down, used their control scheme, made it much more cinematic and used the Star Wars license…
“And then subsequent to that, they could do Knights of the Old Republic on PC and it’s no problem.”

Finally, he added: “We basically followed their model.”