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Well the Stranglehold map pack announced last month is out on Xbox Live, with the PlayStation 3 version sure to follow shortly thereafter. As promised, it contains 10 new multiplayer maps, 21 new characters, and 10 new achievements for an additional 250 points to your gamerscore. All this for 1200 Microsoft points - $15 in real money - and I am currently trying to figure out if it's worth it. It pretty much works out to $1.50 a map, which doesn't sound like too much, but in one big chunk that costs a quarter of the game's retail price? I'm going to be struggling with this for days before I finally cave and put the money down. If I know I am going to buy it anyway, why wait you ask? It's all about the journey my friend. Thanks to Billkwando for the heads up!
Stranglehold Map Pack Live, Pricey
Well the Stranglehold map pack announced last month is out on Xbox Live, with the PlayStation 3 version sure to follow shortly thereafter. As promised, it contains 10 new multiplayer maps, 21 new characters, and 10 new achievements for an additional 250 points to your gamerscore. All this for 1200 Microsoft points - $15 in real money - and I am currently trying to figure out if it's worth it. It pretty much works out to $1.50 a map, which doesn't sound like too much, but in one big chunk that costs a quarter of the game's retail price? I'm going to be struggling with this for days before I finally cave and put the money down. If I know I am going to buy it anyway, why wait you ask? It's all about the journey my friend. Thanks to Billkwando for the heads up!
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Not quite as "only in Japan" as we might have thought. Namco Bandai has released six new planes for Ace Combat 6 onto Xbox Live Marketplaces around the world (excepting India), including the too-cute-to-shoot IDOLM@STER F-117A Night Hawk. There is a price to pay for cuteness however, as downloading the plane will run you 400 Microsoft points - 200 more than the less adorable flying death machines. Other planes include the F-22A Raptor from Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, Cipher and Pixy's F-15s from The Belkan War, and a special Christmas-themed A-10A Thunderbolt II. Collecting the whole set will run you 1200 points - a tad bit pricey if you ask me. At least they threw us a bone with the completely free Mirage2000-5 from Ace Combat 2, right? Tell you what, I'll just post a bunch of pictures here so you can look at the planes completely free of charge. All part of the service.
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IDOLM@STER Flies The AC6 Skies
Not quite as "only in Japan" as we might have thought. Namco Bandai has released six new planes for Ace Combat 6 onto Xbox Live Marketplaces around the world (excepting India), including the too-cute-to-shoot IDOLM@STER F-117A Night Hawk. There is a price to pay for cuteness however, as downloading the plane will run you 400 Microsoft points - 200 more than the less adorable flying death machines. Other planes include the F-22A Raptor from Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, Cipher and Pixy's F-15s from The Belkan War, and a special Christmas-themed A-10A Thunderbolt II. Collecting the whole set will run you 1200 points - a tad bit pricey if you ask me. At least they threw us a bone with the completely free Mirage2000-5 from Ace Combat 2, right? Tell you what, I'll just post a bunch of pictures here so you can look at the planes completely free of charge. All part of the service.
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Activision Phones In Some Guitar Hero III Downloads
Guitar Hero III fans itching for a hobbled together trio of new tunes are going to be thrilled as Activision announced today the next batch of downloadable tunes for Guitar Hero III will bring original recordings of "No More Sorrow" by Linkin Park, "Sleeping Giant" by Mastodon and "Pretty Handsome Awkward" by The Used. These three will be part of the cleverly and memorably named Warner/Reprise Track Pack and made available before the end of the year.
In addition to the three songs I've never heard of listed above, tracks from—according to the press release—popular European bands Extremoduro, Trust, and Die Fantastischen Vier will be available as single song downloads. Finally, holiday classic "We Three Kings", as recorded by Steve Ouimette, will also hit sometime in December.
Nothin' but the hits!
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Stranglehold Map Packs Coming Soon
Midway has plans to woo players back into Strangelhold's strangle hold with the announcement of a downloadable map pack for the game, coming soon to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Ten new multiplayer maps are featured in the pack, allowing you to splatter your opponents vital fluids across the Kowloon Market, the Rooftops of Chigago, and Wong's Estate Grounds. Also included in the pack are 21 new character skins, because killing the same guys over and over again tends to get a little boring. The Xbox 360 version come with 10 new achievements as well, allowing you to tack another 250 points onto your gamerscore, while the PlayStation 3 version has that wonderful new PS3 DLC smell to it. The date is listed only as "Coming Soon", and while there is no mention of the price in the quick press release, the word free doesn't appear once, and PR people wouldn't miss a chance to riddle the missive with that particular buzzword. It's definitely vague day.More »
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Pretty Pictures Of The Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack
Luke Smith of Bungie gives Halo 3 fans a taste of the upcoming downloadable additions to the biggest entertainment launch product of the year in today's official update. Dozens of high-res snapshots of new maps Rat's Nest, Foundry and Standoff are in our gallery below and at the official Bungie web presence. The fresh multiplayer maps will join Xbox Live next week, December 11th, for an affordable 800 Microsoft Points. Peruse your little hearts out.
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Rock Band DLC Prices, Details & Dates Revealed
Sorry, SingStar, but any intentions I had of purchasing your off-disc tunes have gone by the wayside, now that I know that stellar downloadable content from Metallica will be arriving for the week of Rock Band's release. Gamespot has details on the planned song list, as well as the flexible pricing scheme that MTV Games and Harmonix will bring to the multiplayer rhythm game.
Prices will range from 99 cents to 2.99 for individual songs, with the expected price for a single track to average $1.99. Three song artist and variety packs will come in at $5.49, but Gamespot doesn't have confirmed pricing on full album packs.
For those wondering what Metallica tunes will be available, I'm extremely happy to pass on that "Ride the Lightning", "Blackened" and "And Justice for All" will lead the charge. More details and dates at Gamespot.
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Rock Band DLC priced, detailed [Gamespot]
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Rock Band DLC News Nothing Short Of Pants Explosion
The latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine features not only a gushing review of Harmonix and MTV Games' Rock Band, it also provides zipper tearing details on the game's upcoming downloadable content. We've known for some time that tracks from The Who, The Grateful Dead, and Nirvana would feature prominently in the game's post release DLC, but news from the latest Official Xbox Magazine makes us weep with joy.
The current issue reveals master tracks from The Police (Roxanne, Synchronicity II, Can't Stand Losing You), Queens of the Stone Age (3s and 7s, Sick Sick Sick, Little Sister) and Metallica (titles to be announced) can be added to the already stellar line-up. But that's not all. Tracks from Black Sabbath and David Bowie, a good portion of which are "as made famous by" will also be available as add-ons. And yes, there's even more.
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Two Guitar Hero III Packs Go Live
It has begun. Prepare to argue over song value in the comments section as two new Guitar Hero III song packs hit Xbox Live early this morning. The Foo Fighters Pack contains "The Pretender", "All My Life", and "This Is A Call", while the Velvet Revolver Pack consists of "She Builds Quick Machines", "Slither", and "Messages". All of the songs carry the "as performed by" label, which means that they are crafty approximations of said songs and not original recordings the original songs (pardon my initial confusion). Both packs carry the same old price tag of 500 Microsoft Points as piece as well. As Luke so succinctly put it, just as shitty as Guitar Hero II's DLC. Similar packs will hopefully be showing up soon on the PlayStation 3 version, only with a real money value attached to them, which will hurt more.
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Have you been sitting on your copy of Overlord for the Xbox 360, eagerly awaiting new content to stroke the master of evil lurking deep inside you? Did you already trade the game in? You traded it, didn't you? Well go buy it again, because Codemasters is unleashing not one, not two, but three content packs for the game this month via Xbox Live. First off we have the promised split-screen multiplayer pack, which allows two players to battle simultaneously on one system and includes a bonus co-op map. Next we have the first of two premium packs, Raising Hell. This single player pack adds a portal to hell for each of the game's five kingdoms, where you'll fight the fallen heroes in order to save your loyal peasants from eternal damnation. Finally there's the Overlord: Challenge Pack, which introduces seven new online multiplayer maps and Legendary difficulty mode for the single player game. That's a hell of a lot of downloadable content in one month. No word on point prices for the premium content yet, but rest assured they will cost you money.
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Overlord DLC Overload In November
Have you been sitting on your copy of Overlord for the Xbox 360, eagerly awaiting new content to stroke the master of evil lurking deep inside you? Did you already trade the game in? You traded it, didn't you? Well go buy it again, because Codemasters is unleashing not one, not two, but three content packs for the game this month via Xbox Live. First off we have the promised split-screen multiplayer pack, which allows two players to battle simultaneously on one system and includes a bonus co-op map. Next we have the first of two premium packs, Raising Hell. This single player pack adds a portal to hell for each of the game's five kingdoms, where you'll fight the fallen heroes in order to save your loyal peasants from eternal damnation. Finally there's the Overlord: Challenge Pack, which introduces seven new online multiplayer maps and Legendary difficulty mode for the single player game. That's a hell of a lot of downloadable content in one month. No word on point prices for the premium content yet, but rest assured they will cost you money.
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Guitar Hero II DLC Goes Multi-Platinum
Sure it's stretching the criteria a bit, but with 650,000 combined downloads across multiple song packs and three songs per pack, that makes...well, 1,950,000 downloads, but I am sure Activision took that into account when they put out the press release below, which boasts two million song downloads. I have to wonder how many more they would have gotten by now had they not released the packs with the ridiculous $5 price tag, but the $3,250,000 they've made off of the DLC so far is nothing to shake a stick at. Just ask Dusty Welch, RedOctane's head of publishing."The Guitar Hero II downloadable video game song packs are some of the most popular content on Xbox LIVE and are quickly becoming a very lucrative revenue stream and powerful promotional vehicle for musicians and record labels today."Yep, we sure showed them. Overprice your song packs and we'll boycott them so hard you'll only make $3 million dollars. Take that! More »
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Valve Keeps DLC Free
In a world...where downloadable content comes at a cost...
one company would fly in the face of convention...
Despite having the perfect backbone in place for charging gamers for extra maps, models, etc., Valve is coming out completely against the idea of charging folks for game enhancements. Speaking with Eurogamer, Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker pretty much slams every publisher who ever made folks pay for DLC:
"You buy the product, you get the content," Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker told us. "We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers."
What a great philosophy! I'd daresay there are games out there that I've long since traded in that I would buy again if new free content came out. DLC should be an incentive to buy a game in the first place, adding value to a title to generate more sales. I would much rather have free extra content that is supported by advertising than a $5 map pack any day of the week. More »
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Disneyland Offers Downloadable Pirate Booty
If you're a Nintendo DS owner and you're going to be buying the new Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End game and you're just going to happen to be in Disneyland soon, you could find some hidden treasure. According to the OC Register, there will be special Xs "hidden near the "Pirates"-related attractions" where you can download exclusive additional content for the DS version of the game. More »
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New Rainbow 6 Modes Hit
Two new game modes and several new maps hit for Rainbow Six Vegas today. More »
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More Motorstorm Coming... And Soon
Tucked within the press release posted on PLAYSTATION-centric blog ThreeSpeech today are details on Motorstorm downloadable content arriving in the coming months. Those who complained of barebones implementation will have one less thing to piss and moan about as a Time Trial mode, including "ghost" player data and online rankings, will be available for download in-game soon. More »
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Resistance Gets New Content in April
In a sit down with N'Gai Croal, Phil Harrison talks up Resistance: Fall of Man a bit and mentions that Sony is prepping new content for their shooter and that we can expect to start seeing the new stuff this April. More »
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