This year begins with a big band for Burnout Paradise fans, as Criterion today announced that its “Legendary Cars” DLC pack for the racer has been bolstered by several classic and television-derived vehicles.
Some of the new cars include the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters, General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard and KITT from Knight Rider, along with the previously announced DeLorean from Back to the Future.
The pack is slated to go online some time after the Party pack next month.
Hang on to your PlayStations as we have some good news for you all. Sony Computer Entertainment America and MTV Networks have decided that it’s the right time to sign an agreement in order to bring us some MTV content to the PlayStation Network.
Starting this February you can start downloading shows like The City, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels. Later on other titles will probably arrive. These shows are a cool addition to the PlayStation Network which already shows about 1200 movies and over 3000 TV shows episodes. As with the rest of the available shows, you will have to purchase the MTV content you want to download but you will also get to transfer it between any PS3 and PSP systems you own.
via gamesindustry
I for one prefer Xbox 360 and its controller just as it currently is. I will never try to mod an Atari 2600 Joystick lets say and turn it into an Xbox 360 controller. Others however will tell you differently. One Ben Heck has hacked his Atari 2600 controller and he transformed it into an Xbox 360 controller and baptized it the 3600 Controller.
We can only hope playing games with it is at least as fun as it was to make the device. And now that I think about it, I might try to transform an Xbox controller just to see if it can be done. If that ever happen I’ll let you all know. In the mean time you can always enjoy Ben’s piece of work.
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The upcoming FPS FEAR 2, a.k.a. Project Origin, will not support the new Direct X version, according to Monoliths John O’Roke. He cites lack of time for implementing Microsoft’s new graphics API, but adds that they’ve achieved what they were looking for visually by using the existing, and much more popular, DirectX 9. O’roke also notes that DX11 and GPGPU API’s like Nvidia’s CUDA have a lot of potential for future games.
Direct X 10 has had a horrible track record and adoption rate, to say the least, since it’s not offering much while generally takes more resources to run. And the fact that it’s only available on Vista, which hasn’t been the biggest success in terms of operating systems. By far.
EA’s popular survival horror game Dead Space is now available on Steam for $49.99, while Europeans are, getting screwed by Valve as usual their price is 45 Euros, which translates to 60 dollars.
Currently there is no demo available on Steam, but it should arrive shortly.
Earlier this week, gaming network 1UP was acquired by UGO Entertainment, and subsequently, a lot of staff from 1UP were let go. Some of them, in particular those who worked on the popular 1UP podcast, have already bounced back with a new podcast titled “Rebel FM”. The first episode of the new podcast (which runs 2 hours, by the way) is already available on iTunes.
The podcast consists of former 1UP members such as Anthony Gallegos, Nick Suttner, Phillip Kollar, Matt Chandronait, Ryan O’Donnell and Jade Kraus. The team briefly discusses the situation at 1UP in the beginning of the podcast.
The Capital Wasteland of Fallout 3 is quite a vast area with tons of locations to explore. Over the next rise you might find an abandoned gas station, or maybe an abandoned military facility bursting at the seams with advanced weapons, armor and more ammunition than you can shake a stick at. Many gamers ignored the storyline, choosing instead to wander amongst the survivors, helping them in their struggles or taking advantage of their weakness. Unfortunately many of us found that after exploring a tiny portion of the world we had already hit level twenty.
Several downloadable content packs are set to debut later this year and the third of them, Broken Steel, will make two big changes to the game. First it’ll raise the level cap to thirty, allowing for your characters to become even more powerful and giving extra exploration a little more of an incentive. It’ll also remove the ending of the game, allowing you to continue exploration of the wasteland once you’ve completed the main storyline. Unfortunately the content is still exclusive to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game, so PS3 owners will be stuck at level 20 until further notice.
Surprising me (and quite surely many others), GameStop announced itself to be above recession by revealing that the nine-week 2008 holiday season broughtin 22.3% more cash than that of 2007. The retailer scored $2.85 billion in the 2008 holiday season, compared to 2007s $2.33 billion.
The five best-selling games during the period were reported to be Call of Duty: World at War, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Gears of War 2, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Wii Fit.
Thankfully, new video games made up 43.8% of those sales, with used game products taking up 19% of the sales; new game hardware accounted for 23.8%.
A major free update for EVE Online will be released on March 10, announced its developer CCP today. The expansion, dubbed Apocrypha, will bring unpredictable wormholes to the game, connecting new regions of the universe to the existing space of New Eden. It will also introduce modular Tech 3 ships and Epic Mission Arc, which are lengthy, branching quests for deep space explorers.
The content comes as the latest update to the game which has been running for quite some time now. It now has a complex financial ecosystem and population, with CCP recently reporting that its previous record for concurrent EVE players was broken when over 45,000 users were recorded to playing the single-shard game simultaneously.
While Titan Questdeveloper Iron Lore was sadly shut down due to funding issues last year, the company lives on through Crate Entertainment, a new studio formed by ex-Iron Lore lead designer Arthur Bruno and former art director Eric Campanella. They have purchased rights to two of Iron Lores unreleased projects, so well be seeing them soon.
They are currently showing a demo of action RPG Black Legionto publishers. It was the very same game that the studio was unable to get funding for. Crate is currently sharing office space with Demiurge, thanks to an agreement between the two.
“One of our real goals [with Black Legion] is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience,” explained Bruno.
No information about the other project is known for the time being.
