Rockstar Games today announced that the first downloadable content for its open-world racer Midnight Club: Los Angeles will hit Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on March 10.
The content will arrive in two forms – one free, the other premium. The free download expands the map by one third, adding four new neighborhoods. The premium content will add nine new vehicles on top of the map, as well as 26 new races, 12 new battle maps, 10 new delivery missions, new body parts, new music and more.
The premium content will be priced at $9.99 on PSN and 800 points on Xbox Live.
EA today announced that EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 will hit Wii on June 16. They also confirmed that these two will be the first Wii games published by EA that support the upcoming MotionPlus controller add-on.
The controller add-on, revealed last summer, promises to improve the accuracy of the Wii Remote’s motion-sensing capabilities to an almost 1:1 scale. It is to be bundled with Wii Sports Resort this spring.
The publisher notes that gamers will get a “near perfect 1:1 swing” in Tiger Woods with the accessory and that Grand Slam Tennis will offer the “deepest tennis experience” when coupled with the add-on.
Log on to Xbox live and you’re likely to find a whole lot of offensive content. Not in the games, but coming from some of the players. It’s a bit of a cliche but there are racial slurs, insults and epithets flying wildly. It’s possible to report players for these kinds of comments, but with their continual presence it doesn’t seem like Microsoft is doing much to curtail this sort of activity. They do have a rather harsh policy for some sort of ‘offensive activities‘.
An Xbox Live member (well, former member) named Teresa was banned for saying someone was a lesbian: herself. When she found herself banned from the service she contacted Microsoft she was informed that other members found her sexual orientation offensive and that the ban would be lifted. Despite reporting harassment from other players regarding this issue, no action was taken on her behalf.
Unfortunately I don’t think Microsoft would accept arguments of bigotry, intolerance and ignorance as offensive, so the people who reported this unfortunate woman will go unpunished.
Microsoft has been working hard at getting the Xbox 360 to sell well in Japan. With its shooter heavy focus it failed to appeal to the tastes of Japanese gamers, but once again the console has shot to the top of the sales list. It’s happened before and it doesn’t take a business expert to realize why.
Just recently Square Enix released the Xbox 360 exclusive JRPG Star Ocean: The Last Hope and as when Eternal Sonata came out the Microsoft console shot up the charts. During the week ending February 22nd the Xbox 360 sold 21,013 units, more than four thousand units more than the Wii and five thousand more than the PS3.
The game itself sold 173,850 units in four days to climb to the top of the sales charts for Japan.
For the many PSP owners and enthusiasts, brace yourselves for a storm of new applications heading your way as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced a huge and colourful year for its PSP handheld entertainment system.
The arrival of some big-name titles in 2009 for PAL territories include
LittleBigPlanet
MotorStorm
These new games will be coming to PSP this year, joining the ranks of popular PlayStation franchises such as the ever entertaining Buzz!
“There are a lot of big claims in the gaming industry but we’re confident when we say that 2009 is going to be an exciting year for PSP,” said Mark Hardy, European Marketing Director, SCEE. “Our fans have demanded big PSP titles and this year, we’re going to deliver again and again. With Resistance: Retribution™, already on its way to stores, PSP gamers are going to get one big franchise after another.”
If you didn’t already know the beta for browser-based FPS, Quake Live, has been unleashed onto the public.
To sign up for the beta just head over to www.quakelive.com, click on Play Now Free and sign up.
The beta has been more that successful with 113,00 users already registered and another 20,000 put in a queue. It’s been so successful that the id was forced to temporarily turn the servers off. Impressive.
It was recently made known that Ubisoft has teamed up with gym empire Gold’s Gym to produce Gold’s Gym: Cardio Workout.
What console do you think it’s coming to? The Wii, duh. Designed for use with the Wii Balance board Gold’s Gym: Cardio Workout will include sit-ups, running, boxing, and a slew of other cardio excercises all while tracking your progress.
That’s not all though, Ubisoft says that when you buy Gold’s Gym: Cardio Workout you’ll get a free 1-week pass to Gold’s Gym. Woot!
The game hasn’t even been announced yet but thanks to the Australian Classification Office, we now known that Worms Armageddon: Decades is set to hit the Xbox Live Arcade.
I recall playing Worms Armageddon on the PC when it was originally released in 1999 and if I remember correctly it was tremendously fun.
Now, with some top notch graphics and along with an abundance new content, a whole new generation of gamers could be introduced to the Worms universe. That is, if they didn’t play the original Worms Xbox Live Arcade game in 2007.
Ubisoft has recently released the above trailer detailing the sequel to Call of Juarez, Call of Jaurez: Bound in Blood.
As you can see in the trailer, Bound in Blood will let the player take control of either of the McCall brothers as they battle it out in Mexico utilizing all sorts of Wild Western tactics.
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is currently under development by Techland and will be released for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC sometime this year. Looks epic.
EA today announced that EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 will hit Wii on June 16. They also confirmed that these two will be the first Wii games published by EA that support the upcoming MotionPlus controller add-on.
