It was recently announced on the Official Playstation Blog that Bandai’s Noby Noby Boy will be getting an update.

While the update is still in development, we get a hint that Mars is to be included in the pack along with an offline multiplayer mode. Sound cool.

If you didn’t know, Noby Noby Boy is a PS3 exclusive released on February 19th from the makers of the Katamri series.

If you missed out on the original Fable and are looking to run through it before picking up Fable 2, now’s your chance.

It was recently announced that Fable will be the latest Xbox Deal of the Week, next week, getting a discount from 1200 Microsoft Points to 800 Microsoft Points.

That’s not all though as starting the week after that Battlestations Midway: Iowa Mission Pack DLC will get discounted 20% and the week after that, starting on the 30th, Alien Hominid will get a discounted price of just 400 Microsoft Points.

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Major Nelson has recently announced on his blog that the demo for popular FPS Call of Duty: World at War has hit Xbox Live for download.

Featured in the demo is the campaign mission “Hard Landing, which players will be able to venture through in both single player and online co-op with up to 4 players.

The game has been out a while but this is definitly good for those looking to play it before they buy it and haven’t had an opportunity until now.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve never really been a fan of the Resident Evil series. When Resident Evil 5 was announced to not include multiplayer functionality I was almost positive it wouldn’t be added to my collection.

However, Capcom recently announced that the game will in fact be getting multiplayer thanks to a downloadable content pack that will be available a “few weeks after Resident Evil 5 is available”.

Entitled “Versus”, the new game mode will give up to 4 players the chance to duke it out against eachother in a point based Slayer variation, or player vs. player Survivor variation.

Again, the pack will be available a few weeks after Resident Evil 5‘s March 13th release date and will cost 400 Microsoft Points or about $5.

Some details from the Game Informer BioShock 2 cover story has hit the Internet, offering scoops of juicy information for the willing.

The game will take place about seven years after the original and will put players in the role of private investigator Jack Abbott. He chases the Big Sister who has kidnapped his friend’s daughter and after a boat chase gone wrong, he wakes up in Rapture.

Apparently, Big Daddies won’t return and there will only be one Big Sister. Rapture is mostly flooded and there will be underwater missions. New plasmids will be present, including telepathy and slowing time down.

New enemies, including spliced dogs and robots will be there, the latter of which can be hacked. At some point, the Soviets will show up; they will be much smarter than other enemies and will try to steal Adam energy.

BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams is set to launch sometime between August and October this year on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

The official website for Gears of War 2 carries word that more multiplayer maps and another patch for the game are due out before the end of the month.

The “Snowblind map pack”, due out March 31, will offer four winter-themed multiplayer maps: Grind Yard, Under Hill, Courtyard and a remake of Fuel Depot from the original. While no pricing was given, the last pack sold for 800 points ($10).

Meanwhile, the patch will bring a new experience-based ranking system and a variety of fixes on March 24. Hit the jump for full patch notes.

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Home to the LEGO franchise, Traveller’s Tales is now confirmed to be working on both LEGO Harry Potter and a sequel to LEGO Indiana Jones. This comes from an animator at the studio.

"Am currently working as a Cutscene Animator on LEGO Harry Potter & LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which are both in the early stages of production," wrote Carlotte Parker in her online Curriculum Vitae.

The listing has since been removed, though Parker later told VG247 that she is indeed working on both games, but “can’t really talk about them.”

Making the game that much sweeter, Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, revealed that the upcoming Beatles-themed Rock Band game will feature never-before released material from the legendary band.

He adds that they have been working on the game for the past two years and that it is going to be “totally, historically accurate.”

The Beatles: Rock Band is due out on PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 on September 9.

Keeping to its tradition, Harmonix has revealed the next batch of downloadable content for Rock Band and its sequel.

Next week will see the release of the “Get the Funk Out” track pack which will offer the three following funk music: “Pick Up the Pieces” by Average White Band, “Shining Star” by Earth Wind & Fire and “Get Up” by James Brown.

They will also release the following tracks:

• Against Me! – "Thrash Unreal"
• The New Pornographers – "All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth"
• The New Pornographers – "Use It"
• Papa Roach – "Last Resort"
• Papa Roach – "Lifeline"

The above music will debut on March 17 on Xbox Live, followed by a PS3 release two days later. The track pack will cost 440 Microsoft points ($5.50), and each track can be bought for 160 points ($2).

Soon we’ll find out if Midway can pull themselves out of the financial slump they’ve been in for some time. So far nobody has bought Mortal Kombat, so they’ve got to be pinning their hopes on the upcoming open-world action game Wheelman. The game which features Vin Diesel’s gravelly voice and shiny dome has just gone gold, Midway and Ubisoft are reporting.

The game is shipping in North America on March 24th and in Europe on the 27th for both the Xbox 360 and PS3- plenty of time for you to finish Resident Evil 5. Does the typecast anti-hero actor have the pull to get copies of the game moving off the shelves? Has Midway successfully blended shooting and driving action into a delicious gameplay cocktail with hints of axle grease and gunpowder? Or will this ambitious effort simply crash and burn?