Electronic Arts certainly knows when it’s onto a good thing. The company has just announced Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, a full expansion pack for Dragon Age: Origins, which will be available to buy from March 18th, 2010. The expansion pack looks to be more than just a smattering of little extras, if the press release is anything to go by. Amongst other things, it will include five entirely new [...]
Ubisoft has announced the Limited Edition of Splinter Cell Conviction, which will be hitting stores on February 25th alongside the game for both the 360 and PC versions of the game. The special edition will include the following: An exclusive Sam Fisher statue Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction game in SteelBook™ case Infiltration Mode : Eliminate all hostiles in the mission area without being detected A special playable skin: Shadow Armor [...]
EA recently announced that the PS3 version of upcoming Dante’s Inferno will be getting an exclusive special edition. Those who buy the “Divine Edition” will receive developer commentaries, a Wayne Barlowe digital art book, the game’s soundtrack and a digital version of the complete Longfellow translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. All for the standard retail price of the game. Not only that, but the PS3 version of the game’s demo [...]
SEGA Europe has just announced on both the US and EU PS Blog that Yakuza 3 is finally coming to the regions in March March 2010. We can die happy now. “Yakuza 3 was one of the most requested titles for localization by our European SEGA community, so we are delighted to be able to fulfill their wishes with this announcement,” said Gary Knight, SOE’s marking director. “As well as [...]
Electronic Arts has just confirmed that the Medal of Honor franchise will see a reboot in 2010 as a modern-day shooter set in Afghanistan. It will be hitting PC, 360 and PS3. Now, I’m going to give Electronic Arts credit where credit is due. Based on what we’ve have been told so far about the game, it’s decision to focus on the true-to-life military concept of the Tier 1 Operator [...]
Black Rock Studio has just released a new Split/Second trailer that shows off the game’s “Power Play” mechanics, and it’s pretty damn impressive. Power Play is skill based gameplay mechanic that allows you to activate course obstacles, create short-cuts, and even alter the entire layout of the race with giant terrain changes if you play well enough. This is definately going to be one to look out for, when it [...]
Hey, like that remote control you use to change your channels? Well, Microsoft is convinced you won’t need it anymore soon, or so says Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten when discussing the Natal. Talking at the Streaming Media West show recently, Whitten described the increasing number of 360’s video applications as the “biggest surprise” of his job. “With the flick of my wrist I can change a channel,” Whitten [...]
Left 4 Dead 2 had a bit of a lackluster launch on the Xbox 360, because the game would lag once it got online. Valve, the awesome people that they are, have dropped a Thanksgiving Day gift on all gamers by boosting the servers for Xbox Live. “We have upgraded our network infrastructure to better accommodate the huge response to L4D2,” said Valve in their blog. “360 players will now [...]
Modern Warfare 2’s first batch of DLC is currently “planned for the wonderfully vague time-frame of Spring”, according to Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling on his twitter today. No details at were provided on the content and what it would be, but then, there’s not really much you can say in 140 characters. Ah Twitter, where would us journalists be without you?
Do you live in the UK? Do you have an Xbox 360? Do you have Modern Warfare 2 and a Gold Subscription to Xbox Live? Do you like to feel better about yourself by giving to charity? If you just so happen to fit all of those criteria, then here’s your chance to give something back, as Activision UK has announced that it will be donating money to the War [...]
